| Clare Senior Football Championship | |
|---|---|
Current season or competition: 2025 Clare Senior Football Championship | |
| Irish | Craobh Sinsearach Peile an Chláir |
| Code | Gaelic Football |
| Founded | 1887 |
| Region |  Clare (GAA) |
| Trophy | Jack Daly Cup |
| No. of teams | 12 |
| Title holders |  Éire Óg (22nd title) |
| Most titles | Éire Óg (22 titles) |
| Sponsors | TUS |
| Motto | There is no hero like a local hero |
| Official website | clare |
The Clare Senior Football Championship (abbreviated to Clare SFC) is an annual GAA club competition organised by Clare GAA for top twelve gaelic football clubs in County Clare, Ireland. It is most prestigious competition in Clare football. The Clare SFC final is usually held in the month of October at Cusack Park in Ennis.
Contents
- Munster & All-Ireland club qualification
- Munster club championship
- All-Ireland club championship
- 2026 Senior clubs
- Venues
- Early rounds
- Later stages
- Winning managers since 1990
- Trophy
- Roll of honour
- List of Clare SFC finals
- Records and statistics
- The "Double"
- Consecutive championships
- By decade
- Barren spells
- See also
- References
The Clare SHC and Clare SFC begin once both the Clare hurling team and Clare football team have concluded their respective inter-county campaigns. Both championships run concurrently on opposite weekends to cater for dual clubs competing in both codes.
In 2014 Cratloe completed a historic first Clare Senior Championship "Double" for their club, and the first in Clare for eighty-five years since the famous Ennis Dalcassians in 1929. [1]
In 2016 the Clare County Board decided that from 2019 onwards the Clare senior and intermediate championships would both become revamped twelve-team competitions in an effort to make both more competitive. This meant that five clubs would lose their senior status and be relegated down to intermediate. The eleven remaining senior clubs would be joined by the 2018 intermediate champions to form the new senior championship. 2018 saw the relegation of Doora-Barefield, Kilfenora, O'Curry's, St. Breckan's and Wolfe Tones down to intermediate for 2019. As part of this decision a pathway was left open for any amalgamations that wished to enter the senior championship and would be immune from relegation. [2] In 2019 two intermediate clubs from the Loop Head Peninsula – Naomh Eoin & O'Curry's – took up this opportunity.
In 2025 Éire Óg completed a historic first Clare Senior Championship "Double" for the town of Ennis in ninety-six years and emulate their predecessors Ennis Dalcassians from 1890, 1911, 1914, and 1929 [3] .
The winners of the Clare SFC each year are presented with the Jack Daly Cup, and represent Clare in the Munster Senior Club Football Championship and possibly the All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship as the Clare champions.
The current (2025) champions and holders of the Jack Daly Cup are Éire Óg who defeated their neighbours and local rivals Doora-Barefield by 1-16 to 2-06 at Zimmer Biomet Páirc Chíosóg in Ennis. This was the club's fourth title in five years and moved them one clear of Kilrush Shamrocks at the top of the Clare SFC Roll of Honour with twenty-two titles.
