All-Ireland Junior Football Championship

All-Ireland Junior Football Championship
Current season or competition: 2026 All-Ireland Junior Football Championship
Irish	Craobh Sóisear Peile na hÉireann
Code	Gaelic Football
Founded	1912
Region	Ireland (GAA)
No. of teams	5 (10 incl. All-Britain)
Title holders	New York (3rd title)
Most titles	Kerry (20 titles)

The All-Ireland Junior Football Championship (JFC) (Irish: Craobh Sóisear Peile na hÉireann) is an inter-county competition in Gaelic football. County teams compete against each other and the winner is declared All-Ireland Junior Champions. Organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), the championship has been contested since 1912 under two different formats, while retaining the same name.

In Gaelic games, 'junior' is the term used to describe lower tiers behind senior (and where appropriate, intermediate) competition, rather than referring to age-grade as in some sports. Under-17 competitions in Gaelic games are referred to as 'minor' competitions.

From 1912 to 2021 the JFC was contested between the junior county teams in Ireland. However, the definition of what constituted a 'junior' player differed from county to county: in some counties, the junior team was the second team after the senior team and any players who had not played with the senior team could play with the junior team. In others, such as Cork and Kerry, players could only be chosen from clubs within the county that played in junior or intermediate grades, with these counties unable to choose players from senior clubs even if they had not played for the senior county team. A county that won the JFC in the pre-2021 format had to pick a new team for the following year - no player could be on a winning team for two successive years. For the bulk of the JFC's history in this period, the winners of the provincial Junior Football Championships (in Connacht, Leinster, Munster, and Ulster respectively) met to decide who was the "home" winner, with this team meeting the provincial winner from Britain to determine the overall JFC Champion.

Since 2022, the competition has involved the winners and runners-up from the All-Britain Junior Football Championship, played between the county teams of Britain, alongside Kilkenny, New York, and USGAA. While New York and London (if they qualify) compete in the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship/Tailteann Cup, the New York JFC team is made up exclusively of homegrown players, and the London team is a junior team composed of different players to their SFC team. Kilkenny, USGAA, and the other British counties do not field senior teams in the SFC.

The current holders are New York, defeating London by 0-20 to 2-13 in the 2025 final. With three wins, New York are the most successful team in the post-2021 format. Kerry are the most successful county in the competition's history from the pre-2021 period, having lifted the title on twenty occasions.

Teams

10 teams will compete in the 2026 Championship:

County	Province	Stadium	Provincial championship	Provincial titles	Last provincial title	Position in 2025 Championship	Championship titles	Last championship title
Gloucestershire	Britain	Pontcanna Fields, Cardiff	All-Britain Junior Football Championship	1	2008	Group stage (All-Britain)	0	N/A
Hertfordshire	Britain	Radlett Road, Watford	All-Britain Junior Football Championship	3	2000	Semi-final (All-Britain)	0	N/A
Kilkenny	Leinster	Nowlan Park, Kilkenny	N/A (formerly All-Britain Junior Football Championship)	3	2018	Semi-final	1	2022
Lancashire	Britain	Old Bedians, Didsbury	All-Britain Junior Football Championship	12	2016	Semi-final (All-Britain)	0	N/A
London	Britain	McGovern Park, Ruislip	All-Britain Junior Football Championship	24	2025	Runner-up	6	1995
New York	no official province	Gaelic Park, The Bronx	N/A	N/A	N/A	Champion	3	2025
Scotland	Britain	Clydebank Sports Hub, Glasgow	All-Britain Junior Football Championship	2	2019	Group stage (All-Britain)	0	N/A
United States	no official province	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	Quarter-final	0	N/A
Warwickshire	Britain	Páirc na hÉireann, Solihull	All-Britain Junior Football Championship	16	2023	Semi-final	0	N/A
Yorkshire	Britain	Páirc Beeston, Leeds	All-Britain Junior Football Championship	4	2001	Group stage (All-Britain)	0	N/A

Roll of Honour

Wins by county


County	Title(s)	Runners-up	Years won	Years runners-up
Kerry	20	5	1913, 1915, 1924, 1928, 1930, 1941, 1949, 1954, 1963, 1967, 1983, 1991, 1994, 2006, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019	1997, 2000, 2002, 2010, 2014
Cork	17	3	1951, 1953, 1955, 1964, 1972, 1984, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1996, 2001, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013	1966, 1986, 1992
London	6	25	1938, 1966, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1986	1929, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1937, 1939, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1952, 1954, 1956, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1964, 1967, 1968, 1973, 1988, 1991, 1995, 2024, 2025
Dublin	6	3	1914, 1916, 1939, 1948, 1960, 2008	1926, 1930, 1971
Mayo	5	7	1933, 1950, 1957, 1995, 1997	1914, 1925, 1936, 2001, 2012, 2015, 2016
Meath	5	4	1947, 1952, 1962, 1988, 2003	1996, 1999, 2005, 2017
Galway	4	4	1931, 1958, 1965, 1985	1994, 2003, 2018, 2019
Louth	4	2	1925, 1932, 1934, 1961	1912, 1928
New York	3	1	2023, 2024, 2025	2022
Tipperary	3	0	1912, 1923, 1998	-
Roscommon	2	3	1940, 2000	2006, 2008, 2009
Wicklow	2	1	1936, 2002	1969
Cavan	2	1	1927, 2014	1941
Waterford	2	0	1999, 2004	-
Sligo	2	0	1935, 2010	-
Westmeath	1	2	1929	1915, 1940
Longford	1	1	1937	1924
Laois	1	1	1973	1993
Wexford	1	1	1992	2007
Kilkenny	1	1	2022	2023
Armagh	1	0	1926	-
Tyrone	1	0	1968	-
Monaghan	1	0	1956	-
Fermanagh	1	0	1959	-
Down	1	0	1946	-
Warwickshire	0	9	-	1946, 1951, 1955, 1957, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1990
Lancashire	0	4	-	1949, 1953, 1958, 1963
Kildare	0	4	-	1927, 1970, 2011, 2013
Carlow	0	2	-	1913, 1923
Hertfordshire	0	2	-	1965, 1972
Yorkshire	0	2	-	1961, 1983
Leitrim	0	2	-	1938, 2004
Limerick	0	1	-	1916
Offaly	0	1	-	1998

Wins by province


Province	Title(s)	Runners-up
Munster	42	9
Leinster	22	23
Connacht	13	16
Ulster	7	1
Britain	6	42
North America	3	1

List of finals

1912-2021: 'Junior county team' format

Year	Winners		Runners-up
Year	County	Score	County	Score
1912	Tipperary	1–04	Louth	1–03
1913	Kerry	0–07	Carlow	1–02
1914	Dublin	5–04	Mayo	1–06
1915	Kerry	0–06	Westmeath	1–02
1916	Dublin	1–02, 6–04 (R)	Limerick	1–02, 0–03 (R)
1917	no championship
1918
1919
1920
1921
1922
1923	Tipperary	2–06	Carlow	1–01
1924	Kerry	1–06	Longford	0–04
1925	Louth	2–06	Mayo	2–05
1926	Armagh	4–11	Dublin	0–04
1927	Cavan	0–07	Kildare	0–03
1928	Kerry	2–08	Louth	2–03
1929	Westmeath	0–09	London	1–02
1930	Kerry	2–02	Dublin	1–04
1931	Galway	3–03	London	1–05
1932	Louth	0–06	London	0–04
1933	Mayo	3–07	London	2–04
1934	Louth	1–03	London	0–03
1935	Sligo	5–08	London	0–03
1936	Wicklow	3–03	Mayo	2–05
1937	Longford	0–09	London	0–07
1938	London	5–07	Leitrim	2–09
1939	Dublin	2–14	London	0–04
1940	Roscommon	2–09	Westmeath	0–05
1941	Kerry	0–09	Cavan	0–04
1942	no championship
1943
1944
1945
1946	Down	2–10	Warwickshire	1–09
1947	Meath	2–11	London	2–06
1948	Dublin	2–11	London	1–05
1949	Kerry	2–14	Lancashire	0–06
1950	Mayo	02-Apr	London	0-03
1951	Cork	5–11	Warwickshire	1–03
1952	Meath	3–09	London	0–04
1953	Cork	1–11	Lancashire	1–04
1954	Kerry	1–07	London	1–05
1955	Cork	3–09	Warwickshire	1–05
1956	Monaghan	3–07	London	2–06
1957	Mayo	2–07	Warwickshire	2–05
1958	Galway	4–05	Lancashire	3–01
1959	Fermanagh	1–11	London	2–04
1960	Dublin	2–05	London	0–05
1961	Louth	1–13	Yorkshire	1–10
1962	Meath	1–13	London	3–05
1963	Kerry	3–05	Lancashire	2–05
1964	Cork	1–08	London	2–04
1965	Galway	1–08	Hertfordshire	0–04
1966	London	1–06	Cork	0–08
1967	Kerry	0–09	London	0–04
1968	Tyrone	3–08	London	0–07
1969	London	3–09	Wicklow	1–12
1970	London	1–12	Kildare	0–11
1971	London	1–09	Dublin	0–09
1972	Cork	5–16	Hertfordshire	0–03
1973	Laois	0–12	London	1–08
1974	no championship
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983	Kerry	0–15	Yorkshire	0–02
1984	Cork	3–10	Warwickshire	0–07
1985	Galway	4–17	Warwickshire	0–04
1986	London	1–09	Cork	0–07
1987	Cork	0–14	Warwickshire	0–03
1988	Meath	1–10	London	0–03
1989	Cork	0–18	Warwickshire	0–03
1990	Cork	3–16	Warwickshire	0–08
1991	Kerry	2–14	London	0–05
1992	Wexford	1–09	Cork	0–11
1993	Cork	0–11	Laois	2–03
1994	Kerry	0–15	Galway	0–04
1995	Mayo	3–09	London	0–10
1996	Cork	4–11	Meath	0–10
1997	Mayo	2–08	Kerry	1–10
1998	Tipperary	2–09	Offaly	0–06
1999	Waterford	2–12	Meath	2–11
2000	Roscommon	0–14	Kerry	0–11
2001	Cork	1–15	Mayo	3–07
2002	Wicklow	4–09	Kerry	2–12
2003^[1]	Meath	0–16	Galway	2–07
2004	Waterford	1–10, 2–12 (R)	Leitrim	1–10, 2–09 (R)
2005	Cork	0–10	Meath	1–04
2006	Kerry	1–09	Roscommon	0–10
2007	Cork	1–14	Wexford	3–02
2008	Dublin	0–13	Roscommon	0–07
2009	Cork	0–15	Roscommon	0–12
2010	Sligo	2–10	Kerry	1–07
2011	Cork	1–12	Kildare	0–13
2012^[2]	Kerry	0–19	Mayo	1–07
2013^[3]	Cork	0–13	Kildare	1–07
2014^[4]	Cavan	2–14	Kerry	0–14
2015^[5]	Kerry	2–18	Mayo	0–10
2016^[6]	Kerry	2–18	Mayo	2–11
2017^[7]	Kerry	2–19	Meath	1–14
2018^[8]	Kerry	2–13	Galway	2–11
2019	Kerry	3–14	Galway	0–13

2022-present: New 'overseas-dominant' format

Year	Winners		Runners-up
Year	County	Score	County	Score
2022	Kilkenny	3-12	New York	1-09
2023	New York	0-13	Kilkenny	1-09
2024	New York	0-13	London	0-12
2025	New York	0-20	London	2-13

Team records and statistics

Team results (since the 2022 restructure)

Legend

1st – Champions
2nd – Runners-up
SF – Semi-Finals
B – All-Britain Championship

For each year, the number of teams in each championship (in brackets) are shown.

Team	2022 (9)	2023 (9)	2024 (10)	Years
Gloucestershire	B	B	B	3
Hertfordshire	B	B	B	3
Kilkenny	1st	2nd	QF	3
Lancashire	B	B	B	3
London	SF	SF	2nd	3
New York	2nd	1st	1st	3
Scotland	B	B	B	3
United States	—	—	SF	1
Warwickshire	SF	SF	SF	3
Yorkshire	B	B	B	3

Performances and statistics by province

Province	Biggest Contributor		Most Recent Win
Province	County	No.	County	Year
Connacht	Mayo	5	Sligo	2010
Leinster	Dublin	6	Kilkenny	2022
Munster	Kerry	20	Kerry	2019
Ulster	Cavan	2	Cavan	2014
Britain	London	6	London	1986
North America	New York	2	New York	2024

By decade

The most successful team of each decade, judged by number of All-Ireland JFC titles, is as follows:

1910s: 2 for Kerry (1913, 1915) and Dublin (1914, 1916)
1920s: 2 for Kerry (1924, 1928)
1930s: 2 for Louth (1932, 1934)
1940s: 2 for Kerry (1941, 1949)
1950s: 3 for Cork (1951, 1953, 1955)
1960s: 2 for Kerry (1963, 1967) and London (1966, 1969)
1970s: 2 for London (1970, 1971)
1980s: 3 for Cork (1984, 1987, 1989)
1990s: 3 for Cork (1990, 1993, 1996)
2000s: 4 for Cork (2001, 2005, 2007, 2009)
2010s: 6 for Kerry (2012, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)
2020s: 2 for New York (2023, 2024)

Other records

Finishing positions

Most championships
- 20, Kerry (1913, 1915, 1924, 1928, 1930, 1941, 1949, 1954, 1963, 1967, 1983, 1991, 1994, 2006, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)

Most second-place finishes
- 25, London (1929, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1937, 1939, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1952, 1954, 1956, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1964, 1967, 1968, 1973, 1988, 1991, 1995, 2024)
Most semi-final finishes (2022–present)
- 3, Warwickshire (2022, 2023, 2024)
Most quarter-final finishes (2022–present)
- 1, Kilkenny (2024)

Unbeaten sides

Every team that has won the championship has done so unbeaten.

Beaten sides

On one occasion a team was defeated twice but have remained in the knockout championship:

Lancashire (2023) were beaten by Warwickshire and London but still qualified for the knockout stage.

Final success rate

Eight counties have appeared in the final, being victorious on all occasions:

Tipperary (1912, 1923, 1998)
Waterford (1999, 2004)
Sligo (1935, 2010)
Armagh (1926)
Tyrone (1968)
Monaghan (1956)
Fermanagh (1959)
Down (1946)

On the opposite end of the scale, nine counties has appeared in the final, losing on each occasion:

Warwickshire (1946, 1951, 1955, 1957, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1990)
Lancashire (1949, 1953, 1958, 1963)
Kildare (1927, 1970, 2011, 2013)
Carlow (1913, 1923)
Hertfordshire (1965, 1972)
Yorkshire (1961, 1983)
Leitrim (1938, 2004)
Limerick (1916)
Offaly (1998)

Consecutive participations

0, 000 (0000–0000)

000 have the record number of consecutive participations in the championship, taking part in 000 seasons.

Biggest wins

The most one sided finals:
- 00 points – 0000: 000 vs 000
The most one sided matches:
- 18 points – 2023: Warwickshire 2-17 - 1-02 Scotland

Scoring Events (2023–)

Most goals in a match:
- 5 – 2023: London 3-03 - 2-12 Warwickshire
Most points in a match:
- 33 – 2023: London 2-18 - 1-15 Lancashire
- 33 – 2023: Warwickshire 1-18 - 1-15 London
Most goals by one team in a match:
- 3 – 2023: London 3-03 - 2-12 Warwickshire
- 3 – 2023: Scotland 1-08 - 3-11 Lancashire
Most points by one team in a match:
- 18 – 2023: London 2-18 - 1-15 Lancashire
- 18 – 2023: Warwickshire 1-18 - 1-15 London
Highest aggregate score:
- 42 points – 2023: London 2-18 - 1-15 Lancashire
Lowest aggregate score:
- 17 points – 2023: New York 1-07 - 0-07 Warwickshire

Successful defending

A number of defending champions have retained their title. These are:

000 00 attempts out of 00 (0000)

Gaps

Longest gaps between successive championship titles:
- 87 years: Cavan (1927–2014)
- 75 years: Tipperary (1923–1998)
- 75 years: Sligo (1935–2010)
- 66 years: Wicklow (1936–2002)
- 60 years: Roscommon (1940–2000)
- 48 years: Dublin (1960–2008)
- 38 years: Mayo (1957–1995)
- 28 years: London (1938–1966)
- 27 years: Galway (1931–1958)
- 27 years: Louth (1934–1961)
Longest gaps between successive championship final appearances:
- 0 years: N/A
Longest gap between successive championship appearances
- 0 years: N/A

Provinces

On 0 occasions has the All-Ireland JFC final involved two teams from the same province.
The province providing the highest number of different winning teams is Leinster, with nine:
- Dublin
- Kilkenny
- Laois
- Longford
- Louth
- Meath
- Westmeath
- Wexford
- Wicklow
Province success rates
- North America 100% (1 out of 1 counties)
- Connacht 80% (4 out of 5 counties)
- Leinster 75% (9 out of 12 counties)
- Ulster 67% (6 out of 9 counties)
- Munster 67% (4 out of 6 counties)
- Britain 14% (1 out of 7 counties)

Longest undefeated run

The record for the longest unbeaten run stands at 000 games held by 000 (0000–0000).

Miscellaneous

Best finish by a debuting team
- Champions, Tipperary (1912)
Best finish by a debuting team (after 1912)
- TBD, 000 (0000)
Highest winning record in finals (3 or more app.)
- 100%, Tipperary (3 wins in 3 matches)
Lowest winning record in finals (3 or more app.)
- 0%, Warwickshire (0 wins in 9 matches)
- 0%, Lancashire (0 wins in 4 matches)
- 0%, Kildare (0 wins in 4 matches)
Most played match
- Cork vs Kerry

Player records

Winning captains

Year	Winning captain	County
2024	Dylan Curran	New York
2023	Danny Corcoran	New York
2022	Mick Malone	Kilkenny

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