All-Ireland Junior Football Championship

This article is about the Inter-County Junior Football Championship. For other uses, see All-Ireland Junior Football Championship (disambiguation).

All-Ireland Junior Football Championship
Irish	Craobh Sóisear Peile na hÉireann
Founded	1912
Title holders	Cork (16nd title)
First winner	Tipperary
Most titles	Cork (16 titles)

The All-Ireland Junior Football Championship is a Gaelic Athletic Association competition for junior gaelic football inter-county teams in Ireland. The definition of what constitutes a junior player differs from county to county. In some, the junior team is the second team after the senior team. This means that any players who have not played with the senior team can play with the junior team. In others, such as Cork and Kerry, players can only be chosen from clubs that play in junior or intermediate grades. These counties cannot choose players from senior clubs, even if they are not on the senior county team. When a team wins this championship, it has to pick a new team for the following year. No player can thus be on a winning team for two successive years. Currently, Ulster does not participate in this championship.

Cork are the 2009 champions and are the most successful county in the competition's history, having lifted the title on fifteen occasions. The 2008 championship was won by Dublin for the first time since 1960. Sligo defeated Kerry in 2010 to win their first title since 1935.

For the bulk of this competition's history, the winners of the provincial championships met to decide who was the "Home" winner. This team then met the champion county in Great Britain to determine the All-Ireland champion.

Top winners

	Team	Winner	Winning Years
1	Cork	16	1951, 1953, 1955, 1964, 1972, 1984, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1996, 2001, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011
2	Kerry	14	1913, 1915, 1924, 1928, 1930, 1941, 1949, 1954, 1963, 1967, 1983, 1991, 1994, 2006
3	London	6	1938, 1966, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1986
	Dublin	6	1914, 1916, 1939, 1948, 1960, 2008
4	Mayo	5	1933, 1950, 1957, 1995, 1997
4	Meath	5	1947, 1952, 1962, 1988, 2003
7	Galway	4	1931, 1958, 1965, 1985
8	Louth	4	1925, 1932, 1934, 1961
8	Tipperary	3	1912, 1923, 1998
10	Roscommon	2	1940, 2000
10	Waterford	2	1999, 2004
10	Wicklow	2	1936, 2002
10	Sligo	2	1935, 2010
14	Down	1	1946
14	Fermanagh	1	1959
14	Laois	1	1973
14	Longford	1	1937
14	Monaghan	1	1956
14	Tyrone	1	1968
14	Westmeath	1	1929
14	Wexford	1	1992
14	Cavan	1	1927
14	Armagh	1	1926

Roll of honour

Year	Winner	Opponent
2011	Cork 1-12	Kildare 0-13
2010	Sligo 2-10	Kerry 1-07
2009	Cork 0-15	Roscommon 0-12
2008	Dublin 0-13	Roscommon 0-07
2007	Cork 1-14	Wexford 3-02
2006	Kerry 1-09	Roscommon 0-10
2005	Cork 0-10	Meath 1-04
2004	Waterford 1-10 2-12	Leitrim 1-10 2-09
2003	Meath 0-16	Galway 2-07
2002	Wicklow 4-09	Kerry 2-12
2001	Cork 1-15	Mayo 3-07
2000	Roscommon 0-14	Kerry 0-11
1999	Waterford 2-12	Meath 2-11
1998	Tipperary 2-09	Offaly 0-06
1997	Mayo 2-08	Kerry 1-10
1996	Cork 4-11	Meath 0-10
1995	Mayo 3-09	London 0-10
1994	Kerry 0-15	Galway 0-04
1993	Cork 0-11	Laois 2-03
1992	Wexford 1-09	Cork 0-11
1991	Kerry 2-14	London 0-05
1990	Cork 3-16	Warwickshire 0-08
1989	Cork 0-18	Warwickshire 0-03
1988	Meath 1-10	London 0-03
1987	Cork 0-14	Warwickshire 0-03
1986	London 1-09	Cork 0-07
1985	Galway 4-17	Warwickshire 0-04
1984	Cork 3-10	Warwickshire 0-07
1983	Kerry 0-15	Yorkshire 0-02
1974-82	No championship
1973	Laois 0-12	London 1-08
1972	Cork 5-16	Hertfordshire 0-03
1971	London 1-09	Dublin 0-09
1970	London 1-12	Kildare 0-11
1969	London 3-09	Wicklow 1-12
1968	Tyrone 3-08	London 0-07
1967	Kerry 0-09	London 0-04
1966	London 1-06	Cork 0-08
1965	Galway 1-08	Hertfordshire 0-04
1964	Cork 1-08	London 2-04
1963	Kerry 3-05	Lancashire 2-05
1962	Meath 1-13	London 3-05
1961	Louth 1-13	Yorkshire 1-10
1960	Dublin 2-05	London 0-05
1959	Fermanagh 1-11	London 2-04
1958	Galway 4-05	Lancashire 3-01
1957	Mayo 2-07	Warwickshire 2-05
1956	Monaghan 3-07	London 2-06
1955	Cork 3-09	Warwickshire 1-05
1954	Kerry 1-07	London 1-05
1953	Cork 1-11	Lancashire 1-04
1952	Meath 3-09	London 0-04
1951	Cork 5-11	Warwickshire 1-03
1950	Mayo 2-04	London 0-03
1949	Kerry 2-14	Lancashire 0-06
1948	Dublin 2-11	London 1-05
1947	Meath 2-11	London 2-06
1946	Down 2-10	Warwickshire 1-09
1945	No championship
1944	No championship
1943	No championship
1942	No championship
1941	Kerry 0-09	Cavan 0-04
1940	Roscommon 2-09	Westmeath 0-05
1939	Dublin 2-14	London 0-04
1938	London 5-07	Leitrim 2-09
1937	Longford 0-09	London 0-07
1936	Wicklow 3-03	Mayo 2-05
1935	Sligo 5-08	London 0-03
1934	Louth 1-03	London 0-03
1933	Mayo 3-07	London 2-04
1932	Louth 0-06	London 0-04
1931	Galway 3-03	London 1-05
1930	Kerry 2-02	Dublin 1-04
1929	Westmeath 0-09	London 1-02
1928	Kerry 2-08	Louth 2-03
1927	Cavan 0-07	Kildare 0-03
1926	Armagh 4-11	Dublin 0-04
1925	Louth 2-06	Mayo 2-05
1924	Kerry 1-06	Longford 0-04
1923	Tipperary 2-06	Carlow 1-01
1922	No championship
1921	No championship
1920	No championship
1919	No championship
1918	No championship
1917	No championship
1916	Dublin 1-02 6-04	Limerick 1-02 0-03
1915	Kerry 0-06	Westmeath 1-02
1914	Dublin 5-04	Mayo 1-06
1913	Kerry 0-07	Carlow 1-02
1912	Tipperary 1-04	Louth 1-03

By province

Province	All-Irelands	Most Recent Winners
Munster clubs	33	Cork, 2011
Leinster clubs	21	Dublin, 2008
Connacht clubs	12	Sligo, 2010
Ulster clubs	6	Tyrone, 1968

References

2011 Final Report

See also

• Munster Junior Football Championship
• Leinster Junior Football Championship
• Connacht Junior Football Championship
• Ulster Junior Football Championship