2009 Leinster Senior Club Football Championship

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2009 Leinster Senior Club Football Championship
Tournament details
County Leinster
Year2009

The Leinster Senior Club Football Championship 2009 will be the 42nd staging of the annual Leinster Senior Club Football Championship ran by the Leinster GAA. The competition will see the county champions of eleven counties of Leinsters compete for the title. The Kilkenny Senior Football Championship winners do not take part in the senior championship. The winners will be awarded the Cup and will go on to compete in the 2010 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship. The championship is scheduled to start on 25 October 2009 and conclude with the final on 6 December 2009.

Contents

Kilmacud Crokes are the current holders – beating ? in the Leinster Senior Club Football Championship 2008 final at ?.

Format

The championship takes the structure of an open-draw knock-out.

Competing teams

Each county in Leinster holds its own County Championship. The winner of the eleven championships qualify for the Leinster Club Championship.

TeamQualified asLast appearanceNotes
Rathvilly Carlow Champions 2004Rathvilly were knocked out at the quarter-final stage of the competition by Clara of Offaly.
Ballyboden St. Enda's Dublin Champions 1995
St Laurence's Kildare Champions First AppearanceKnocked out in the first round by Clara
Portlaoise Laois Champions 2008Won the competition in 2004 and went on to be all-Ireland club champions in March 2005.
Clonguish Longford Champions 2008
Mattock Rangers Louth Champions 2005Knocked out in the first round by Portlaoise.
Senchelstown Meath Champions 2007Knocked out at the quarter-final stage by Portlaoise of Laois.
Clara Offaly Champions 2003
Garrycastle Westmeath Champions 2004
Horsewood Wexford Champions 2006Knocked out in the first round by Clonguish.
Rathnew Wicklow Champions 2005Won the competition in 2001. Knocked out at the quarter-final stage by Ballyboden St. Enda's

First round

25 October 2009 Mattock Rangers (Louth)0-02 2-21Portlaoise (Laois)Portlaoise
D Reid 0-1 (0-1f), C Grimes 0-1 (0-1f) B Fitzgerald 1-4 (0-1f), P Cahillane 1-2 (0-2f), C Rogers 0-4, Z Tuohy 0-3 (0-1f), B McCormack, P McNulty 0-2 each, B Mulligan, K Lillis, A Kelly, R Maher 0-1 each


25 October 2009Clara (Offaly)1-12 2-08St Laurences (Kildare)Newbridge
Referee: D Fahey (Longford)
R Brady 0-1; J O’Hara 0-1, E Brady 1-0, J Reynolds 0-5, T Deehan 0-5(fs). T O’Neill 0-1, B Mackey 0-2(fs), R Lawlor 1-2, J Fogarty 1-2, D Lawlor 0-1.


25 October 2009Clonguish (Longford)2-10 0-05Horsewood (Wexford)Newbridge


Quarter finals

8 November 2009Portlaoise (Laois)3-12 1-06Senchelstown (Meath)Portlaoise


8 November 2009Clara (Offaly)0-14 1-08 Rathvilly (Carlow)Tullamore


8 November 2009Clonguish (Longford)0-15 1-14Garrycastle (Westmeath)Longford


8 November 2009
2.30
Ballyboden St. Enda's (Dublin)1-10 1-07 Rathnew (Wicklow) Parnell Park
Referee: Maurice Deegan
C Keaney 0-5 (0-3f), D Shovlin 1-0, D OMahony, S Lambert, K Naughton, A Kerin (0-1f), P Galvin 0-1 each. T Gill 0-5 (0-5f), L Glynn 1-1, N Mernagh 0-1.


Semi finals

22 November 2009 Ballyboden St. Enda's (Dublin)0-00 0-00Garrycastle (Westmeath)Westmeath


22 November 2009Clara (Offaly)0-03 1-09Portlaoise (Laois)Portlaoise
P Cahillane 1-3 (1-0 pen); B Fitzgerald (0-2f), P McNulty 0-2 each, B Smyth, J Fennell 0-1 each. T Deehan (0-1f), S Deehan, J O’Hara 0-1 each.


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