Leinster Junior Football Championship

The Leinster Junior Football Championship was a junior "knockout" competition in the game of Gaelic football played in the province of Leinster in Ireland. The series of games were organised by the Leinster Council. The competition ran from 1905 to 2019. The most successful county was Dublin who have won on twenty occasions.

Leinster Junior Football Championship
Founded1905
Title holdersMeath (18th title)
Most titlesDublin (20 titles)

The winners of the Leinster Junior Football Championship each year would then progress to play the other provincial champions for a chance to win the All-Ireland Junior Football Championship.

At GAA Congress in 2021, a motion was passed to change the entire structure of the All Ireland Junior Football Championship competition to that of a mostly 'overseas competition' along with just one Irish county, Kilkenny. The All-Ireland Junior Football Championship competition now involves just four teams: New York, Kilkenny, and the winner and runner-up of the British Junior Championship, all meeting in the All Ireland Junior Championship semi-finals. Hence there is no longer any Leinster Junior Football Championship competition.

Top winners

TeamWinsYears won
1Dublin201908, 1914, 1916, 1922, 1926, 1930, 1939, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1954, 1955, 1959, 1960, 1971, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1994, 2008
2Meath181947, 1952, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2017, 2019
3Louth121910, 1912, 1925, 1928, 1932, 1934, 1946, 1957, 1961, 1966, 2009, 2010
Kildare121927, 1931, 1938, 1956, 1965, 1967, 1970, 1989, 2004, 2011, 2013, 2018
4Wexford81911, 1963, 1984, 1992, 2000, 2007, 2015, 2016
5Wicklow61906, 1909, 1936, 1949, 1969, 2002
6Laois51907, 1941, 1968, 1973, 1993
7Offaly41935, 1972, 1998, 2001
Westmeath41905, 1915, 1929, 1940
8Carlow31913, 1923, 1933
Longford31924, 1937, 1953
9Cavan22012, 2014

Roll of honour

YearWinnersScoreRunners-upScore
2022-Kilkenny represent the province since 2022
2020-21No Championship (Covid-19)
2019Meath2-14Kildare0-18
2018Kildare2-17Meath2-15
2017[1]Meath0–19Louth0–10
2016[2]Wexford2–12Louth0–09
2015[3]Wexford1–10Meath0–12
2014[4]Cavan1–11Longford1–07
2013[5]Kildare2–15Longford3–08
2012[6]Cavan1–13Kildare0–09
2011[7]Kildare5–08Cavan1–09
2010Louth0–13Cavan2–06
2009Louth0–11, 1–12 (R)Longford0–11, 0–10 (R)
2008Dublin1–13Meath1–09
2007Wexford1–10Dublin1–08
2006Meath1–12Louth0–11
2005Meath1–09Louth0–05
2004Kildare0–09Dublin0–08
2003Meath1–15Wexford0–07
2002Wicklow3–06Kildare0–09
2001Offaly2–09Meath1–11
2000Wexford1–09Dublin1–05
1999Meath1–9Dublin1–06
1998Offaly1–18Kildare0–08
1997Meath0–16Louth1–08
1996Meath1–13Laois2–07
1995Meath2–11Offaly1–05
1994Dublin0–09Louth0–05
1993Laois2–08Carlow0–11
1992Wexford1–16Meath2–10
1991Meath1–10, 1–14 (R)Dublin1–10, 2–02 (R)
1990Meath0–15Dublin0–11
1989Kildare1–07Louth1–06
1988Meath0–10Dublin1–04
1987Dublin1–08Meath0–04
1986Meath1–10Kildare1–05
1985Dublin3–16Louth2–04
1984Wexford0–08Louth0–06
1983Dublin2–08Meath0–05
1974-82No Championship
1973Laois1–09Meath0–09
1972Offaly3–08Wexford1–03
1971Dublin2–09Kilkenny0–05
1970Kildare3–13Dublin1–11
1969Wicklow2–05Meath0–05
1968Laois2–07, 0–09 (R)Westmeath3–04, 0–04 (R)
1967Kildare2–08Offaly1–07
1966Louth3–14Kildare3–12
1965Kildare2–08Laois0–08
1964Meath3–10Kildare0–13
1963Wexford0–14Westmeath1–06
1962Meath2–11Wexford1–04
1961Louth2–04Dublin0–08
1960Dublin2–09Meath0–05
1959Dublin2–16Longford0–05
1958Meath1–05Dublin1–03
1957Louth2–06Kilkenny1–05
1956Kildare2–08Wexford2–03
1955Dublin1–12, 1–08 (R)Meath4–03, 0–05 (R)
1954Dublin0–10, 2–11 (R)Louth0–10, 2–04 (R)
1953Longford3–05Kilkenny1–05
1952Meath2–06Wicklow0–01
1951Dublin5–07Carlow0–07
1950Dublin1–15Wexford2–08
1949Wicklow5–02Meath2–10
1948Dublin2–09, 6–03 (R)Wexford4–03, 2–04 (R)
1947Meath2–03Dublin1–04
1946Louth3–05Wexford0–01
1942-45No Championship
1941Laois2–07Louth2–05
1940Westmeath5–07Kildare0–05
1939Dublin2–04, 2–12 (R)Meath1–07, 0–07 (R)
1938Kildare1–03Westmeath0–05
1937Longford3–04Offaly4–01
1936Wicklow5–05Kildare0–03
1935Offaly1–06, 2–03 (R)Dublin1–06, 0–02 (R)
1934Louth2–04, 1–07 (R)Kildare1–07, 0–05 (R)
1933Carlow5–03Wicklow4–05
1932Louth2–07Carlow1–05
1931Kildare1–06Dublin1–04
1930Dublin3–03Carlow0–02
1929Westmeath1–02Laois0–02
1928Louth1–05Dublin1–04
1927Kildare3–03Offaly2–03
1926Dublin0–04Kildare0–03
1925Louth1–03Dublin0–04
1924Longford*0–02Meath1–03
1923Carlow2–05Dublin1–01
1922Dublin0–03, 2–02 (R)Wicklow0–03, 0–03 (R)
1917-21No Championship
1916Dublin2–07Wexford0–02
1915Westmeath3–00Wexford0–02
1914Dublin2–02Kilkenny0–03
1913Carlow3–04Meath0–00
1912Louth3–01Carlow2–02
1911Wexford3–01Dublin0–02
1910Louth1–05Laois1–01
1909Wicklow1–10Westmeath0–03
1908Dublin1–08Meath0–03
1907Laois2–11Westmeath0–05
1906Wicklow1–11Westmeath0–00
1905Westmeath1–04Carlow1–03

(* 1924 Longford awarded the title following an objection to Meath playing a Senior player. [8])

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