Down Intermediate Football Championship

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Down Intermediate Football Championship
Current season or competition:
Current event clock.svg 2023 Down Intermediate Football Championship
Irish Cluiche Ceannais Péil An Dúin
Founded1973
TrophyWJ Farrell Cup
Title holders Colours of Offaly.svg Liatroim Fontenoys (2nd title)
Most titles Colours of Donegal.svg Ballyholland Harps
Colours of Offaly.svg Atticall
Colours of Laois.svg Warrenpoint
(3 titles)
SponsorsThe Parador Lodge [1] [2]

The Down Intermediate Football Championship is an annual Gaelic football competition contested by mid-tier Down GAA clubs. The national media covers the competition. [3]

Contents

Liatroim are the title holders (2023) defeating Rostrevor in the Final.

Format

16 clubs compete in the competition.

History

Bredagh won their maiden title in 2016. [4]

The 2022 final between Rostrevor and Saval pitted Benny Coulter and Danny Hughes (teammates when Down got as far as the 2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final) against each other on the sideline. [5]

Honours

The trophy presented to the winners is the ? The winner of the Down IFC qualifies to play in the Down Senior Football Championship. The Down IFC winner also qualifies for the Ulster Intermediate Club Football Championship. [6] [7] It is the only team from Down to qualify for this competition. The Down IFC winner may enter the Ulster Intermediate Club Football Championship at either the preliminary round or the quarter-final stage. They often do well there, with the likes of Rostrevor [8] [9] among the clubs from Down to play in at least one Ulster Championship final after winning the Down Intermediate Football Championship. Liatroim Fontenoys won Ulster in 1998. Warrenpoint won Ulster in 2014. [10] Then Loughlinisland won Ulster in 2015. [11]

The Down IFC winner — by winning the Ulster Intermediate Club Football Championship — may qualify for the All-Ireland Intermediate Club Football Championship, at which it would enter at the semi-final stage, providing it hasn't been drawn to face the British champions in the quarter-finals.

Finals listed by year

Also won the Ulster and All-Ireland competitions in the same season
Also won the Ulster competition in the same season
YearWinnerScoreScoreOpponents
1973Greencastle
1990 Colours of Sligo.svg Dromara Colours of Kildare.svg Ballymartin
1991 Colours of Kilkenny.svg Glenn Colours of Laois.svg Drumaness
1992 Colours of Laois.svg Drumaness Colours of Kildare.svg Ballymartin
1993 Colours of Kildare.svg Ballymartin
1994 Colours of Donegal.svg Ballyholland Harps Colours of Mayo.svg Annaclone
1995 Colours of London.svg Saval [12] Newry Bosco
1996 Colours of Tipperary.svg Newry Bosco
1997 Colours of Offaly.svg Atticall Colours of Mayo.svg Annaclone
1998 Colours of Offaly.svg Liatroim Fontenoys
1999 Colours of Donegal.svg Ballyholland Harps
2000 Colours of Offaly.svg Atticall
2001 Colours of Laois.svg Warrenpoint Colours of Louth.svg Longstone
2002 Colours of Louth.svg Longstone Colours of London.svg Saval
2003 Colours of Donegal.svg Ballyholland Harps
2004 Colours of Offaly.svg Atticall
2005 Colours of London.svg RGU Downpatrick
2006 Colours of Galway.svg Drumgath Colours of Offaly.svg Atticall
2007 Colours of London.svg RGU Downpatrick 0–120–09 Colours of Kildare.svg Ballymartin
2008 Colours of Mayo.svg Annaclone1–130–13 Colours of London.svg Darragh Cross
2009 Colours of Kildare.svg Ballymartin0–150–07 Colours of London.svg Darragh Cross
2010 Colours of Tipperary.svg Tullylish4–074–06 Colours of Mayo.svg Annaclone
2011 Colours of Mayo.svg Kilclief 1–090–09 Colours of Kildare.svg Ballymartin
2012 [13] Colours of Laois.svg Warrenpoint [14] 1–080–08 Colours of Tipperary.svg Newry Bosco
2013 Colours of Galway.svg Drumgath0–151–07 Colours of Tipperary.svg Newry Bosco
2014 Colours of Laois.svg Warrenpoint [15] 1–221–09 Colours of Kildare.svg Ballymartin
2015 Colours of Laois.svg Loughinisland [16] 3–110–08 Colours of Offaly.svg An Ríocht
2016 [17] [18] Colours of Galway.svg Bredagh 3–131–10 Colours of Offaly.svg An Ríocht
2017 Colours of Down.svg Rostrevor [19] 1–101–06 Colours of Mayo.svg Annaclone
2018 [20] [21] Colours of Galway.svg Bredagh 3–131–17 Colours of Offaly.svg Liatroim Fontenoys
2019 [22] Colours of Kilkenny.svg Glenn1–121–10 Colours of London.svg Newry Shamrocks
2020 [23] Colours of Tipperary.svg Saul3–100–14 Colours of Galway.svg Drumgath
2021 [24] Colours of Offaly.svg An Ríocht 2–060–11 Colours of London.svg Darragh Cross
2022 Colours of London.svg Saval [25] [26] 1–121–09 Colours of Down.svg Rostrevor
2023 Colours of Offaly.svg Liatroim Fontenoys 1-131-12 Colours of Down.svg Rostrevor

Wins listed by club

#TeamWinsYears won
1 Colours of Donegal.svg Ballyholland Harps
3
1994, 1999, 2003
Colours of Offaly.svg Atticall1997, 2000, 2004
Colours of Laois.svg Warrenpoint 2001, 2012, 2014
4 Colours of Kilkenny.svg Glenn
2
1991, 2019
Colours of Kildare.svg Ballymartin1993, 2009
Colours of London.svg Saval1995, 2022
Colours of London.svg RGU Downpatrick 2005, 2007
Colours of Galway.svg Drumgath2006, 2013
Colours of Galway.svg Bredagh 2016, 2018
10Greencastle
1
1973
Colours of Sligo.svg Dromara1990
Colours of Laois.svg Drumaness1992
Colours of Tipperary.svg Newry Bosco 1996
Colours of Offaly.svg Liatroim Fontenoys 1998, 2023
Colours of Louth.svg Longstone 2002
Colours of Mayo.svg Annaclone2008
Colours of Tipperary.svg Tullylish2010
Colours of Mayo.svg Kilclief 2011
Colours of Laois.svg Loughinisland 2015
Colours of Down.svg Rostrevor2017
Colours of Tipperary.svg Saul2020
Colours of Offaly.svg An Ríocht 2021

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  4. ↑ "Bredagh crowned champions". Down Recorder . 28 September 2016. Retrieved 3 December 2022. The brilliance of deadly duo Donal Hughes and Alan Davidson sent An Riocht packing as Bredagh claimed their first ever IFC title at Pairc Esler on Sunday.
  5. ↑ "Previews: Down Senior, Intermediate and Junior Football finals". Gaelic Life . 13 October 2022. Retrieved 3 December 2022. Former teammates Benny Coulter and Danny Hughes, who helped Down reach the All-Ireland final in 2010, will face off on the sideline this weekend and this one could go right down to the wire.
  6. ↑ Watters, Andy (3 November 2018). "Down champions Bredagh travel south for Ulster Intermediate clash with Cavan outfit Mullahoran". The Irish News . Retrieved 3 December 2022. Down champions Bredagh swap the city streets of south Belfast for small town county Cavan this afternoon for a run-in with the once all-conquering 'Dreadnoughts'.
  7. ↑ Watters, Andy (12 November 2022). "Down champions Saval make Ulster championship debut against Monaghan's Corduff". The Irish News . Retrieved 3 December 2022. Seventy-three years since their foundation, Down champions Saval make their Ulster debut against a Corduff side that passed their first test at this level with a nerve-jangling victory over Armagh's Shane O'Neill's in last weekend's preliminary round.
  8. ↑ Malone, Steve (15 October 2022). "Saval to give Reds their fill" . Retrieved 3 December 2022. Rostrevor won the title in 2017 and reached the Ulster Final where they lost to Moy by a point, who went on to win the Intermediate All-Ireland.
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  24. ↑ Casey, Shaun (4 December 2021). "An Ríocht chasing more glory days". Gaelic Life . Retrieved 3 December 2022. An Ríocht picked up their first ever championship success at senior level with a 2-6 to 0-11 win over Darragh Cross in the Intermediate final. It was a historic day for the Kingdom and a result that didn't look likely heading into the last water break. Bernie Ruane's side trailed 0-11 to 0-5 but late goals from Eoin Sloan and Kory Colgan completed a comeback that will live long in the memory.
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