The London Junior Football Championship is an annual Gaelic football competition contested by lower-tier London GAA clubs.
Wandsworth Gaels are the title holders (2022) defeating Tara in the Final. Conor Gilsenan, the former professional rugby player and star of The Apprentice on the BBC, played for the winning team in that game. [1]
Year | Winner | Opponent |
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2022 [2] [1] | Wandsworth Gaels 0-10 | Tara 0-9 |
2021 | St Clarets 1-12 | St Kiernans 1-5 |
2020 | Harlesden Harps 1-11 | St Clarets 1-7 |
2019 | Dulwich Harps? [3] | Wandsworth Gaels |
2018 | Tír Chonaill Gaels (two-point win) [4] | Dulwich Harps [4] |
2017 | Thomas McCurtains 1-10 | Dulwich Harps 0-12 |
2016 [5] | Tara 4-8 (20) | Tír Chonaill Gaels 2-11 (17) |
2015 | ||
2009 | St Joseph's (Greenford) | Dulwich [6] |
1997 | St Kiernan's | |
1996 | Harlesden Harps 1-10 (R) | St Anthony's 1-9 |
1995 | ||
1994 | ||
1993 | ||
1992 | Harlesden Harps 2-9 | Sam Maguire's 1-7 |
1991 | Western Exiles | Harlesden Harps |
1980 | Thomas McCurtains | |
1966 | Thomas McCurtains | |
Six clubs contest the competition.
The winning team is promoted to the Intermediate Football Championship. In 2009, St Joseph's won so were promoted and replaced by Cuchullains who were relegated from the intermediate championship in 2009. [7]
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Junior bridesmaids in recent years, Dulwich Harps will be hoping that 2019 is finally the year they get to be the bride. Dulwich face Wandsworth in Sunday's Toureen JFC Final at McGovern Park (1:30pm).
Beaten in the final by Thomas McCurtains in 2017 (by a solitary point) and last year by Tír Chonaill Gaels by just two points, if Dulwich do prevail on Sunday no one can say they haven't paid their dues.
They also lost to St Joseph's in the 2009 final.