The club primarily concentrates on Gaelic football for both men and women, with boys hurling teams fielded at youth level. Its home venue is called St Lawrence's Park, located just outside the village on the Tattymoyle Road.[2]
As of 2025, the senior Gaelic football team competes in Division 2 of the Tyrone All-County Football League as well as the Tyrone Intermediate Football Championship.
History
Fintona Pearses was founded in 1917 and, despite some stop-starts in the 1920s, the club has been continuously active since 1932.[citation needed] At the time of founding, there was already a club in the village, Fintona Davitts, which had been in existence since 1907 and had won the Tyrone Senior Football Championship in 1914.[3] The two sides met each other in competition twice in 1917. The Davitts club, however, went out of existence shortly afterwards.
In 2023, the Mens Senior football team won the Tyrone Junior Football Championship, defeating neighbours Drumragh by a point after extra time and bridging a 45 year gap from their last championship title win in 1978. In doing so, the Mens Senios team earned promotion to the Division 2 League and Intermediate championship grade for the first time since 2008. They went on to represent Tyrone in the Ulster Junior Club Football Championship, defeating Ballyhegan (Armagh) in the preliminary round[6] and Drumaness (Down) in the quarter final. They were eliminated at the semi final stage by Blackhill (Monaghan).[7] In addition, the Minor boys football team won the Grade 2 Minor League title beating Badoney in the final 2-9 to 1-9,[8] while the Under 20 Mens team lost out in their Grade 2 League final to Moortown.[9]
In 2025, the Minor boys 1st football team won the club's first ever underage Grade 1 title, defeating Carrickmore in the Grade 1 League final at Healy Park 2-10 to 2-9,[10] while the 2nd team won the Minor football Grade 4 Championship, beating Clogher 2-16 to 1-14 in the final at Killyclogher.[11] Additionally at county level, two club players (Padraig Goodman and Peter Colton) won places on the Electric Ireland 2025 Minor Football All-Star team of the year with Colton winning Football Player of the Year, both as part of the Tyrone team that won the All-Ireland Minor Football Championship.[12]
Fintona Pearses is the only club in Tyrone to have won the Senior, Intermediate, Junior, and all three Reserve Football Championships in its existence.[citation needed]
Ladies Football
A separate Ladies Gaelic football club, of the same name, was founded in 1996 and competed in Tyrone competitions in 1997. In 2022, separate votes among the members of both the GAA & LGFA clubs approved a merger of the two clubs & as of 2023, the Ladies and Mens Gaelic football teams compete under a single Fintona Pearses GAA club banner.[citation needed]
Camogie
Fintona was also home to the first camogie club in Tyrone, called Fintona Rose Kavanaghs which was founded around the same time as Fintona Davitts.[citation needed]
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