South East Junior A Football Championship
South East Junior A Football Championship | |
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Irish | Craobh Peile Sóisear A Carrigdhoun |
Code | Gaelic football |
Founded | 1929; 95 years ago (1929) |
Region | Carrigdhoun (GAA) |
No. of teams | 7 |
Title holders | Ballygarvan (6th title) |
Most titles | Kinsale (18 titles) |
Sponsors | The Huntsman Bar & Restaurant |
Official website | Carrigdhoun GAA |
The South East Junior A Football Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the Huntsman Bar & Restaurant Junior A Football Championship) is an annual club Gaelic football competition organised by the Carrigdhoun Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association and contested by junior-ranked teams in the southeastern region of County Cork, Ireland, deciding the competition winners through a group and knockout format.
Introduced in 1929 as the South East Junior Football Championship, it was initially a straight knockout tournament. The competition went through a number of format changes since then, including the introduction of a back-door or second chance for beaten teams.
In its present format, the seven teams are drawn into two groups and play each other in a single round-robin system. The two group winners and two group runners-up proceed to the knockout phase that culminates with the final.[1] The winner of the South East Junior A Championship qualifies for the subsequent Cork Junior A Football Championship.
The title has been won at least once by 14 different clubs. The all-time record-holders are Kinsale, who have won a total of 18 titles. Ballygarvan are the title-holders after defeating Ballinhassig by 1-15 to 1-05 in the 2023 final.
Teams
2024 Teams
Club | Location | Colours | Position in 2023 | In Championship since | Championship Titles | Last Championship Title |
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Ballinhassig | Ballinhassig | Blue and white | Runners-up | 1929 | 4 | 2021 |
Ballygarvan | Ballygarvan | Red and white | Champions | 1980 | 6 | 2023 |
Ballymartle | Riverstick | Green and gold | Group stage | 1983 | 1 | 2018 |
Carrigaline | Carrigaline | Blue and yellow | Group stage | 2019 | 13 | 1992 |
Courcey Rovers | Ballinspittle | Red and white | Group stage | 2011 | 5 | 2011 |
Shamrocks | Shanbally | Green and white | Semi-finals | 1965 | 13 | 2016 |
Valley Rovers | Innishannon | Green and white | Semi-finals | 1929 | 16 | 2020 |
Roll of Honour
# | Club | Titles | Runners-up | Years won | Years runners-up |
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1 | Kinsale | 18 | 15 | 1930, 1932, 1945, 1946, 1949, 1953, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1965, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1978, 1999, 2001, 2005, 2022 | 1937, 1941, 1942, 1947, 1954, 1963, 1964, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1989, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2002 |
2 | Valley Rovers | 16 | 5 | 1937, 1943, 1947, 1951, 1970, 1979, 1981, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1993, 1995, 1996, 2017, 2020 | 1936, 1949, 1957, 1994, 2018 |
3 | Shamrocks | 13 | 14 | 1931, 1933, 1934, 1971, 1972, 1975, 1977, 1980, 1982, 1988, 1989, 1994, 2016 | 1966, 1968, 1970, 1974, 1976, 1978, 1984, 1985, 1990, 1991, 1992, 2003, 2010, 2015 |
Carrigaline | 13 | 10 | 1936, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1990, 1991, 1992 | 1952, 1953, 1960, 1965, 1972, 1973, 1977, 1980, 1988, 1996 | |
5 | Crosshaven | 9 | 7 | 1929, 1941, 1942, 1952, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1998 | 1930, 1931, 1935, 1955, 1956, 1959, 1961 |
6 | Ballygarvan | 6 | 5 | 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2014, 2023 | 1993, 1995, 2007, 2011, 2021 |
7 | Courcey Rovers | 5 | 6 | 1997, 2000, 2004, 2006, 2011 | 1975, 1986, 1987, 2001, 2005, 2014 |
8 | Ballinhassig | 4 | 6 | 2012, 2015, 2019, 2021 | 1981, 2008, 2013, 2016, 2022, 2023 |
9 | Tracton | 3 | 8 | 1983, 2007, 2010 | 1943, 1967, 1969, 1999, 2004, 2006, 2009, 2012 |
Robert Emmets | 3 | 2 | 1950, 1954, 1956 | 1958, 1962 | |
11 | Passage | 1 | 3 | 1944 | 1934, 1945, 1946 |
Ballymartle | 1 | 2 | 2018 | 2019, 2020 | |
Belgooly | 1 | 1 | 2013 | 2017 | |
Banba | 1 | 0 | 1935 | — | |
15 | Knockavilla | 0 | 3 | — | 1933, 1939, 1940 |
Naval Services | 0 | 2 | — | 1950, 1951 | |
Rochestown | 0 | 1 | — | 1932 | |
Douglas | 0 | 1 | — | 1944 |
Notes
- Runners-up unknown: 1929, 1938, 1971
List of Finals
Year | Winners | Runners-up | # | ||
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Club | Score | Club | Score | ||
2024 | |||||
2023 | Ballygarvan | 1-15 | Ballinhassig | 1-05 | [2] |
2022 | Kinsale | 2-15 | Ballinhassig | 0-04 | [3] |
2021 | Ballinhassig | 1-07 | Ballygarvan | 1-05 | [4] |
2020 | Valley Rovers | 1-14 | Ballymartle | 1-04 | [5] |
2019 | Ballinhassig | 1-14 | Ballymartle | 2-08 | [6] |
2018 | Ballymartle | 1-14 | Valley Rovers | 0-07 | [7] |
2017 | Valley Rovers | 1-12 | Belgooly | 0-09 | [8] |
2016 | Shamrocks | 0-09 | Ballinhassig | 0-08 | [9] |
2015 | Ballinhassig | 1-11 | Shamrocks | 1-09 | [10] |
2014 | Ballygarvan | 2-08 | Courcey Rovers | 1-10 | |
2013 | Belgooly | 1-09 | Ballinhassig | 0-06 | |
2012 | Ballinhassig | 1-10 | Tracton | 0-12 | |
2011 | Courcey Rovers | 1-05 | Ballygarvan | 0-06 | |
2010 | Tracton | 1-11 | Shamrocks | 2-02 | |
2009 | Ballygarvan | 0-13 | Tracton | 1-04 | [11] |
2008 | Ballygarvan | 1-13 | Ballinhassig | 0-07 | |
2007 | Tracton | 0-13 | Ballygarvan | 0-12 | |
2006 | Courcey Rovers | 1-08 | Tracton | 0-09 | |
2005 | Kinsale | 0-09 | Courcey Rovers | 1-05 | |
2004 | Courcey Rovers | 1-06 | Tracton | 0-04 | |
2003 | Ballygarvan | 0-13 | Shamrocks | 0-05 | |
2002 | Ballygarvan | 2-11 | Kinsale | 2-04 | |
2001 | Kinsale | 3-10 | Courcey Rovers | 1-11 | |
2000 | Courcey Rovers | 3-04 | Kinsale | 1-09 | |
1999 | Kinsale | 1-07 | Tracton | 1-06 | |
1998 | Crosshaven | 2-09 | Kinsale | 1-10 | |
1997 | Courcey Rovers | 1-09 | Kinsale | 0-06 | |
1996 | Valley Rovers | 2-10 | Carrigaline | 1-07 | |
1995 | Valley Rovers | 2-09 | Ballygarvan | 1-09 | |
1994 | Shamrocks | 0-07 | Valley Rovers | 0-04 | |
1993 | Valley Rovers | 0-12 | Ballygarvan | 1-01 | |
1992 | Carrigaline | 2-05 | Shamrocks | 2-03 | |
1991 | Carrigaline | 2-12 | Shamrocks | 1-05 | |
1990 | Carrigaline | 2-15 | Shamrocks | 2-04 | |
1989 | Shamrocks | 4-09 | Kinsale | 2-08 | |
1988 | Shamrocks | 1-10 | Carrigaline | 0-04 | |
1987 | Valley Rovers | 2-10 | Courcey Rovers | 0-06 | |
1986 | Valley Rovers | 3-15 | Courcey Rovers | 0-08 | |
1985 | Valley Rovers | 2-10 | Shamrocks | 2-09 | |
1984 | Valley Rovers | 2-07 | Shamrocks | 2-06 | |
1983 | Tracton | 1-02 | Kinsale | 0-02 | |
1982 | Shamrocks | 2-09 | Kinsale | 1-09 | |
1981 | Valley Rovers | 1-09 | Ballinhassig | 0-05 | |
1980 | Shamrocks | 2-07 | Carrigaline | 0-05 | |
1979 | Valley Rovers | 1-08 | Kinsale | 1-03 | |
1978 | Kinsale | 3-07 | Shamrocks | 1-06 | |
1977 | Shamrocks | 2-09 | Carrigaline | 2-05 | |
1976 | Kinsale | 3-08 | Shamrocks | 1-12 | |
1975 | Shamrocks | 0-14 | Courcey Rovers | 2-02 | |
1974 | Kinsale | 2-09 | Shamrocks | 2-05 | |
1973 | Kinsale | 0-16 | Carrigaline | 0-03 | |
1972 | Shamrocks | 2-07 | Carrigaline | 1-02 | |
1971 | Shamrocks | — | |||
1970 | Valley Rovers | 3-07 | Shamrocks | 0-07 | |
1969 | Carrigaline | 0-09 | Tracton | 1-03 | |
1968 | Carrigaline | 1-05 | Shamrocks | 1-05 | |
1967 | Carrigaline | 2-09 | Tracton | 1-01 | |
1966 | Crosshaven | 1-06 | Shamrocks | 0-07 | |
1965 | Kinsale | 3-07 | Carrigaline | 3-02 | |
1964 | Crosshaven | 4-07 | Kinsale | 1-10 | |
1963 | Crosshaven | 2-09 | Kinsale | 2-08 | |
1962 | Crosshaven | 2-06 | Robert Emmets | 1-06 | |
1961 | Kinsale | 4-10 | Crosshaven | 1-04 | |
1960 | Kinsale | 2-09 | Carrigaline | 0-01 | |
1959 | Carrigaline | 0-09 | Crosshaven | 0-07 | |
1958 | Kinsale | 1-07 | Robert Emmets | 0-03 | |
1957 | Carrigaline | 2-05 | Valley Rovers | 1-04 | |
1956 | Robert Emmets | 2-06 | Crosshaven | 0-05 | |
1955 | Carrigaline | 1-06 | Crosshaven | 0-01 | |
1954 | Robert Emmets | 1-09 | Kinsale | 3-01 | |
1953 | Kinsale | 2-05 | Carrigaline | 1-03 | |
1952 | Crosshaven | 3-02 | Carrigaline | 1-02 | |
1951 | Valley Rovers | 2-02 | Naval Services | 0-02 | |
1950 | Robert Emmets | 2-04 | Naval Services | 0-04 | |
1949 | Kinsale | 2-02 | Valley Rovers | 2-01 | |
1948 | No final | ||||
1947 | Valley Rovers | Kinsale | |||
1946 | Kinsale | w/o | Passage | scr. | |
1945 | Kinsale | 1-07 | Passage | 1-03 | |
1944 | Passage | 5-03 | Douglas | 1-00 | |
1943 | Valley Rovers | Tracton | |||
1942 | Crosshave | 1-04 | Kinsale | 1-03 | |
1941 | Crosshave | 2-06 | Kinsale | 2-03 | |
1940 | Carrigaline | 0-02 | Knockavilla | 0-00 | |
1939 | Carrigaline | 1-05 | Knockavilla | 0-03 | |
1938 | Carrigaline | — | |||
1937 | Valley Rovers | 1-01 | Kinsale | 0-02 | |
1936 | Carrigaline | Valley Rovers | |||
1935 | Banba | 4-01 | Crosshaven | 0-01 | |
1934 | Shamrocks | 2-04 | Passage | 1-01 | |
1933 | Shamrocks | 1-06 | Knockavilla | 0-01 | |
1932 | Kinsale | Rochestown | |||
1931 | Shamrocks | Crosshaven | |||
1930 | Kinsale | Crosshaven | |||
1929 | Crosshaven | — |
Notes:
- 1948 - The championship declared null and void after finalists Kinsale and Valley Rovers were disqualified after objections and counter objections.
- 1952 - The first match ended in a draw: Crosshaven 2-01, Carrigaline 1-04.
- 1971 - Shamrocks were awarded the title after the other semi-finalists, Valley Rovers and Crosshaven, were disqualified.
Records
Gaps
Top ten longest gaps between successive championship titles:
- 37 years: Shamrocks (1934-1971)
- 32 years: Crosshaven (1966-1998)
- 24 years: Tracton (1983-2007)
- 22 years: Shamrocks (1994-2016)
- 21 years: Carrigaline (1969-1990)
- 21 years: Valley Rovers (1996-2017)
- 21 years: Kinsale (1978-1999)
- 19 years: Valley Rovers (1951-1970)
- 17 years: Kinsale (2005-2022)
- 15 years: Carrigaline (1940-1955)
- 12 years: Crosshaven (1929-1941)
By decade
The most successful team of each decade, judged by number of South-East Junior Football Championship titles, is as follows:
- 1930's: Shamrocks (3) 1931-33-34 & Carrigaline (3) 1936-38-39
- 1940's: Kinsale (3) 1945-46-49
- 1950's: Robert Emmets (3) 1950-54-56 & Carrigaline 1955-57-59
- 1960's: Crosshaven (4) 1962-63-64-66
- 1970's: Shamrocks (5) 1971-72-75-76-77
- 1980's: Valley Rovers (5) 1981-84-85-86-87
- 1990's: Carrigaline (3) 1990-91-92 & Valley Rovers (3) 1993-95-96
- 2000's: Ballygarvan (4) 2002-03-08-09
- 2010's: Ballinhassig (3) 2012-15-19
See also
References
- ^ "South East clubs discover their path to junior glory". The Southern Star. 18 May 2023. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
- ^ Hurley, JJ (6 November 2023). "Good Evans! O'Connor shines as Ballygarvan land South East Junior Football title". The Southern Star. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
- ^ Kennefick, Joe (3 October 2022). "Kinsale prove too good for Ballinhassig in South east junior A football championship final". Echo Live. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
- ^ Crowdy, Howard (17 October 2021). "Ballinhassig capture second JAFC title in three years in tight win over Ballygarvan". Echo Live. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
- ^ Crowdy, Howard (16 June 2021). "Valley Rovers cruise to first JAFC title since 2017 with big win over Ballymartle". Echo Live. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
- ^ "Ballinhassig take the throne in the South East after impressive triumph". The Southern Star. 6 September 2019. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
- ^ Kennefick, Joe (15 November 2018). "History-making Ballymartle claim their first junior football crown". Echo Live. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
- ^ "Valleys rule the South East". The Southern Star. 26 September 2017. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
- ^ Spillane, Gavin (19 September 2016). "Cork GAA round-up: Ballincollig cruise to semi-final; Shamrocks and Harbour Rovers claim Junior titles". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
- ^ "JAFC Final V Ballinhassig – 30/8". Shamrocks GAA website. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
- ^ Kennefick, Joe (2009). "Ballygarvan win 2009 South East Junior football final". Echo Live. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
External links
- Carrigdhoun GAA website
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