Sligo Junior Football Championship

The Sligo Junior Football Championship is an annual Gaelic football competition contested by lower-tier Sligo GAA clubs.

Sligo Junior Football Championship
IrishCraobh Soisear Peile
Co. Shligigh
Founded1907
Title holdersCurry (2nd title)
First winnerEaskey
Most titlesBunninadden (6 titles)
SponsorsConnacht Gold[1]

Bunninadden have the biggest number of titles with six. Shamrock Gaels are the title holders (2022) defeating Naomh Molaise Gaels in the Final.

Honours

The winners of the Sligo Junior Championship qualify to represent their county in the Connacht Junior Club Football Championship. The winners of that in 2018 were Easkey and stalwart Eugene Mullen captained them to that.[2]

St johns , who won the junior title in 1999 went on to win the connaught championship by beating monivea Abbey in the final in tuam before the fbd final

The winners can, in turn, go on to play in the All-Ireland Junior Club Football Championship. Easkey got to the All-Ireland final in 2019.[3] But they lost to Beaufort when they were there.[4][5][6][7] That was played at Croke Park.[8]

The trophy given to the winners of the Sligo Junior Football Championship is called ?

The winners are promoted to the Sligo Intermediate Football Championship for the following year.[9][10]

History

In 2009 the Junior Championship was restructured. For the first time since 2001 there would be two championships, A and B. The A Championship was made up of the semi-finalists in 2008 and relegated teams from the Intermediate Championship. The winner of the A Championship is promoted to Intermediate football. The relegated teams from Intermediate drop down to Junior A and in 2009 three teams were relegated. The B Championship was run on a knockout basis with nine teams entering. The winner of the B Championship is promoted to A for the following year.

Eamonn O'Hara, one of Sligo's All Star footballers, played in the 2016 final and he scored 2-1 before the first half ended.[11]

List of finals
Year Winner Opponent
2022 Shamrock Gaels Naomh Molaise Gaels[12]
2021 St Patrick's
2020[13] Tourlestrane 2-12 Owenmore Gaels 0-8
2019[14] St Michael's[15] 1-13 Tourlestrane 1-10
2018 Easkey[16]
2017 Ballymote[17] Tourlestrane[18]
2016[19] St Michael's 4-12 Tourlestrane 2-05
2015 Tourlestrane
2014
2013 St johns 3-8 St marys 1-9
2012 Cloonacool 2-9 St johns 2-8
2011 Curry 1-5 St Mary's 0-7
2010 St Patrick's 1-9 Curry 1-6
2009 Ballisodare 0-12 Shamrock Gaels 0-11
2008 Bunninadden 1-10 Shamrock Gaels 0-5
2007 Coolera/Strandhill 1-12 Tubbercurry 2-7
2006 Drumcliffe–Rosses Point 1-6, 2-9 (R) Castleconnor 1-6, 1-7 (R)
2005 St Farnan's 1-10 Bunninadden 1-8
2004 Tourlestrane 2-7 Shamrock Gaels 0-10
2003 Bunninadden 3-17 Castleconnor 2-10
2002 Castleconnor 1-15, 0-12 (R) Bunninadden 3-9, 0-9 (R)
2001 Grange/Cliffoney 0-14 Eastern Harps 1-7
2000 St Mary's 2-7 Ballisodare 1-9
1999 St John's 0-15 Maugherow 2-4
1998 Geevagh 1-14 Maugherow 2-5
1997 St Farnan's 1-15 Maugherow 2-11
1996 St Mary's 2-13 Shamrock Gaels 2-1
1995 Tubbercurry 1-5 Shamrock Gaels 0-6
1994 Eastern Harps 2-10 Drumcliffe–Rosses Point 2-7
1993 St Mary's 4-6 Eastern Harps 1-13
1992 St Michael's 3-6, 0-13 (R) Tubbercurry 1-12, 1-5 (R)
1991 Maugherow 2-11 St Michael's 1-11
1990 Drumcliffe–Rosses Point 2-10 Maugherow 1-8
1989 St John's 0-14 Cliffoney 1-9
1988 Mullinabreena 1-9 Ballymote 1-6
1987 Calry-St Joseph's 3-8 Ballymote 1-4
1986 Tourlestrane 0-11 Maugherow 0-9
1985 Castleconnor 2-6 St Mary's 0-6
1984 Mullinabreena 0-10 Calry Gaels 0-5
1983 St Farnan's 1-10 Calry Gaels 2-0
1982 Northern Gaels 1-10 St Farnan's 1-8
1981 Geevagh 2-6 Tourlestrane 0-1
1980 Castleconnor 0-9 Tourlestrane 1-3
1979 Bunninadden 1-7 Castleconnor 0-3
1978 Carraroe 3-5 Tourlestrane 0-6
1977 Easkey 3-8 Tourlestrane 0-1
1976 Calry Gaels 1-9 Easkey 0-7
1975 Grange 4-15 Enniscrone 0-4
1974 Geevagh 1-10 Tourlestrane 0-2
1973 Bunninadden 3-2 Grange 1-7
1972 St Farnan's 1-9, 0-13 (R) Craobh Rua 0-12, 0-7 (R)
1971 Coolera 2-10 St Farnan's 1-2
1970 Keash 2-7 Coolera 0-6
1969 Grange 2-8, 1-7 (R) Knockalassa 1-5, 1-6 (R)
1968 Mullinabreena 0-7 Knockalassa 0-3
1967 St Patrick's 1-8 Keash 0-3
1966 Enniscrone 2-8 Ballisodare 0-5
1965 Easkey 2-5 Grange 0-5
1964 St Patrick's 1-8 Easkey 2-2
1963 Bunninadden 1-8 Cliffoney 1-4
1962 Collooney Harps 2-7 St Patrick's 1-6
1961 Keash 1-5, 2-6 (R) Coolera 2-2, 0-2 (R)
1960 Easkey 2-9 Keash 0-2
1959 Grange 1-4 Ballymote 0-5
1958 Drumcliffe 1-6 Tubbercurry 0-1
1957 Mullinabreena 2-5 Easkey 2-4
1956 Ballisodare 2-3 Kilglass 1-3
1955 Curry 1-6 Ballisodare 0-0
1954 Tourlestrane 0-6 Mental Hospital 0-4
1953 Bunninadden 5-2 Curry 0-4
1952 Keash/Dromard (shared)
1951 Knockalassa 2-2 Dromard 1-2
1950 Skreen 1-4 Keash 1-3
1949 Coolera 2-2 Keash 1-2
1948 Enniscrone Grange
1947 Keash Maugherow
1946 Tourlestrane Collooney Harps
1945 Derroon 3-3 Templeboy 0-5
1944 Gurteen 1-9 Dromore West 1-2
1943 Templeboy 0-3 Killoran 0-2
1942 Keash 1-5 Dromore West 1-4
1941 Maugherow 4-6 Gurteen 1-7
1940 Skreen 2-7 Geevagh 1-3
1939 Ballisodare Coolaney
1938 Aclare Maugherow
1937 Teeling 1-8 Gurteen 1-6
1936 Geevagh 2-5 Teeling 2-4
1935 Derroon Grange
1934 Drumcliffe 2-5 Broher 0-2
1933 Maugherow
1932 Knockalassa Gurteen
1931 Skreen Sligo
1930 Collooney Harps 2-4 Curry 0-2
1929 Ballisodare 1-2, 4-5 (R) Curry 2-3, 0-1 (R)
1928 Skreen Emeralds Ballyrush
1927 Killavil Derroon
1926 Competition abandoned
1925 Ballyrush Ballymote Round Towers
1924 Dromore West Collooney Harps
1923 No competition
1922 No competition
1921 No competition
1920 No competition
1919 Templeboy Tubbercurry
1918 Dromore West Sligo
1917 Cuilmore Templeboy
1916 Coolera 1-3 Tubbercurry 1-2
1915 No competition
1914 No competition
1913 No competition
1912 No competition
1911 No competition
1910 Mullinabreena Emlaghnaughton
1909 Not completed
1908 No competition
1907 Easkey

Roll of honour

Roll of honour only goes as far as 2011, needs updating.

# Club Wins Years won Last final lost
1 Bunninadden 6 1953, 1963, 1973, 1979, 2003, 2008 2005
2 Coolaney/Mullinabreena 5 1910, 1957, 1968, 1984, 1988 —
Keash 1942, 1947, 1952 (shared), 1961, 1970 1967
4 Easkey 4 1907, 1960, 1965, 1977 1976
Coolera/Strandhill 1916, 1949, 1971, 2007 1970
Skreen (now St Patrick's) 1928, 1931, 1940, 1950 —
Ballisodare 1929, 1939, 1956, 2009 2000
Drumcliffe–Rosses Point 1934, 1958, 1990, 2006 1994
Geevagh 1936, 1974, 1981, 1998 1940
Tourlestrane 1946, 1954, 1986, 2004 1981
Grange 1959, 1969, 1975, 2001 1973
St Farnan's 1972, 1983, 1997, 2005 1982
12 St Patrick's 3 1964, 1967, 2010 1962
Maugherow 1933, 1941, 1991 1999
Castleconnor 1980, 1985, 2002 2006
St Mary's 1993, 1996, 2000 2011
16 Dromore West 2 1918, 1924 1944
Templeboy 1919, 1943 1945
Collooney Harps 1930, 1962 1946
Knockalassa 1932, 1951 1969
Derroon 1935, 1945 1927
Enniscrone/Kilglass 1948, 1966 1975
Curry 1955, 2011 2010
Calry-St Joseph's 1976, 1987 1984
St John's 1989, 1999 ,2013 —
27 Cuilmore 1 1917 —
Ballyrush 1925 1928
Killavil 1927 —
Aclare 1938 —
Gurteen 1944 1941
Carraroe 1978 —
Northern Gaels 1982 —
St Michael's 1992 1991
Eastern Harps 1994 1993
Tubbercurry 1995 2007
Dromard 1952 (shared) 1951

Junior B Championship

Junior b tournament played off with teams second and third teams . St johns have won the most times with 3 victories since the formation of the competition in 2009 Roll of honor only goes as far as 2011, needs updating.

# Club Wins Years won Last final lost
1 Curry 2 1997, 2001 2000
2 St Mary's 3 1998 —
Shamrock Gaels 1999 2011
Easkey 2000 2001
St John's 2009

2013 2016

 —
Calry-St Joseph's 2010 —
Geevagh 2011 —
Year Winner Opponent
1997 Curry 0-12 Enniscrone/Kilglass 1-4
1998 St Mary's 3-10 Tubbercurry 0-6
1999 Shamrock Gaels 3-7 Curry 2-6
2000 Easkey 2-10 Curry 1-10
2001 Curry 0-11 Easkey 1-4
2009 St John's 3-10 Ballymote 0-7
2010 Calry-St Joseph's w/o Enniscrone/Kilglass scr
2011 Geevagh 1-4 Shamrock Gaels 1-3
2012
2013 st johns 3-11 tourlestrane 0-8 (replay)
2014
2015
2016 st johns 2-15 easkey 0-4
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2021

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