Leinster GAA

Leinster GAA
Irish:	Cúige Laighean
Location:	East
Number of counties:	12
Province colours:	Green White
Major grounds:	Croke Park; Nowlan Park; O'Moore Park; Dr Cullen Park; Aughrim Park
Most All-Ireland titles
Hurling:	Kilkenny (35)
Football:	Dublin (30)
Most provincial titles
Hurling:	Kilkenny (69)
Football:	Dublin (60)
Interprovincial Championship wins
Hurling:	28
Football:	28
Standard kit
	Regular kit

The Leinster Council is a provincial council of the Gaelic Athletic Association sports of hurling, Gaelic football, camogie, rounders and handball in the province of Leinster. The Leinster Council has been partnered with the European County Board to help develop Gaelic Games in Europe. Leinster Council's main contribution to this goal is the provision of referees.

As of 2008, there were 834 clubs affiliated to the county boards of the Leinster Council.^[1]

County boards

Kilkenny is the most successful county hurling team at senior level in the province, having won the Leinster Senior Hurling Championship on 74 occasions as of 2022.^{[citation needed]}

Dublin heads the roll of honour in football, having won 54 Leinster Senior Football Championship titles as of 2015.^{[citation needed]}

The Leinster camogie team won the premier representative competition in the women’s team field sport of camogie, the Gael Linn Cup on 26 occasions in 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1965, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1993, 2006 and 2010.

The Leinster provincial junior camogie team won the Gael Linn Trophy on seven occasions in 1976, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1999, 2001 and 2007.

Rank	Team	Football		Hurling		Total		Most recent Provincial
Rank	Team	Title(s)	Runners-Up	Title(s)	Runners-Up	Title(s)	Runners-Up	Title	Runner-Up
1	Dublin	61	23	24	36	85	59	2022	2021
2	Kilkenny	3	5	74	31	77	36	2022	2019
3	Wexford	10	16	21	32	31	48	2019	2017
4	Meath	21	22	-	-	21	22	2010	2020
5	Offaly	10	9	9	14	19	23	1997	2006
6	Kildare	13	24	-	-	13	24	2000	2022
7	Laois	6	15	3	11	9	26	2003	2018
8	Louth	8	14	-	-	8	14	1957	2010
9	Westmeath	1	4	-	1	1	5	2004	2016
	Carlow	1	2	-	-	1	2	1944	1942
	Longford	1	1	-	-	1	1	1968	1965
12	Wicklow	-	1	-	-	0	1	-	1897

Source:^[2]

^ "GAA clubs by numbers". Irish Independent. 9 May 2009.
^ "Leinster Council Chairmen" (PDF). Leinster GAA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016.

v t e Inter-county competitions under administration by the Leinster Council
Gaelic football	Senior Football Championship Junior Football Championship Under-21 Football Championship Minor Football Championship O'Byrne Cup Gerry Reilly Cup
Hurling	Senior Hurling Championship Intermediate Hurling Championship Junior Hurling Championship Under-21 Hurling Championship Minor Hurling Championship Walsh Cup Kehoe Cup

v t e Governing bodies of the Gaelic Athletic Association
Provinces and counties as defined within Gaelic games
Provincial councils	Connacht Leinster Munster Ulster Britain
Connacht	Galway Leitrim Mayo Roscommon Sligo
Leinster	Carlow Dublin Kildare Kilkenny Laois Longford Louth Meath Offaly Westmeath Wexford Wicklow
Munster	Clare Cork Kerry Limerick Tipperary Waterford
Ulster	Antrim Armagh Cavan Derry Donegal Down Fermanagh Monaghan Tyrone
Britain	Gloucestershire Hertfordshire Lancashire London Scotland Warwickshire Yorkshire
Other counties	Asian Australasia Canada Europe New York United States
Non-county bodies	Annual Congress Deutscher Bund Gälischer Sportarten Féile na nGael Higher Education Irish Collegiate Handball Association Games Administration Committee Scór
Associated bodies	GAA Handball Camogie Association Ladies' Gaelic Football Association
Structure of the Gaelic Athletic Association