Offaly Senior Football Championship
Current season or competition:
2022 Offaly Senior Football Championship
IrishCraobh Sinsear Peile
Uíbh Fhailí
Founded1896
Title holdersTullamore (29th title)
Most titlesRhode (31 titles)
SponsorsTullamore Court Hotel

The Offaly Senior Football Championship is an annual Gaelic football competition contested by top-tier Offaly GAA clubs. The Offaly County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association has organised it since 1896.

Tullamore are the title holders (2023), defeating Ferbane on a scoreline of 1-05 to 0-06 in the final.

Format

Current teams

The 8 clubs competing in the 2023 Offaly Senior Football Championship are:

Rhode, Tullamore, Edenderry, Ferbane, Clara, Shamrocks, Durrow and Bracknagh.

Honours

The trophy presented to the winners is the Dowling Cup. The club winning the Offaly Championship qualifies to represent the county in the Leinster Senior Club Football Championship, the winner of which progresses to the All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship.

List of finals


Year Winner Score Runner-up Score
1896 Tullamore 0–08 Cloghan 1–04
1897 Tullamore 1–05 Cloghan 0–00
1898 Tullamore w/o Killoughy scr
1899 Tullamore 0–06 Quarrymount 0–02
1900 Rhode 0–07 Daingean 0–02
1901 Quarrymount 2–06 Geashill 0–02
1902 Geashill 2–05 Ferbane 0–05
1903 Cloghan 1–04 Geashill 0–02
1904 Geashill 1–04 Ferbane 0–02
1905 Geashill 4–05 Cloghan 0–01
1906 Geashill 3–08 Cloghan 1–04
1907 Geashill 4–10 Tullamore 0–07
1908 Tullamore 2–09 Geashill 0–05
1909 Daingean 1–04 Ballinamere 0–03
1910 Banagher 1–02 Tullamore 0–02
1911 Tullamore 2–03 Geashill 1–00
1912 Tullamore 1–06 Ferbane 0–02
1913 Tullamore w/o Banagher scr
1914 Ferbane 2–01 Ballycommon 1–02
1915 Killeigh 1–04 Ferbane 1–01
1916 Killeigh 1–04 Cloghan 1–01
1917 Tullamore 0–04 Ferbane 0–03
1918 Rhode 4–07 Cloghan 1–00
1919 Clonmore 1–00 Ferbane 0–01
1920[1] Rhode 0–04 Ferbane 1–00
1921 No competition
1922 No competition
1923 Rhode 2–07 Clara 1–01
1924 Tullamore 2–08 Belmont 0–02
1925 Tullamore 2–03 Ferbane 0–00
1926[2] Tullamore 4–05 Birr 0–00
1927[3] Rhode 0–06 Ferbane 0–02
1928 Rhode 3–04, 2–05 Tullamore 2–03, 3–02
1929[4] Rhode 3–06 Daingean 2–04
1930[5] Tullamore 1–06 Rhode 0–02
1931[6] Rhode 1–04, 2–04 Tullamore 1–03, 1–07
1932 Tullamore 4–00 Rhode 1–02
1933[7] Walsh Island 0–08 Tullamore 1–04
1934 Walsh Island 1–06 Tullamore 0–03
1935 Tullamore 2–03 Rhode 0–06
1936 Edenderry 4–06 Walsh Island 3–03
1937 Walsh Island 3–08 Rhode 2–05
1938 Walsh Island 5–08 Daingean 2–06
1939 Rhode 2–04 Daingean 1–06
1940[8] Rhode 1–05 Walsh Island 0–04
1941 Tullamore 2–06 Edenderry 2–02
1942 Walsh Island 5–06 Daingean 2–05
1943[9] Walsh Island 1–11 Tullamore 1–07
1944 Rhode 2–05 Tullamore 1–05
1945 Cloghan 1–06 Rhode 1–02
1946 Tullamore 2–06 Rhode 2–04
1947 St Mary's 3–05 Cloghan 1–05
1948 Tullamore 1–08 Edenderry 2–02
1949[10] Rhode w/o Cloghan scr
1950 St Mary's 2–07 Rhode 1–05
1951 Edenderry 0–12 Cloghan 1–08
1952 Durrow 3–05 Edenderry 1–05
1953[11] Edenderry 1–08 Rhode 1–05
1954[12] Tullamore 3–07 Rhode 2–02
1955[13] Rhode 2–06 Daingean 2–05
1956[14] Tullamore 0–08 Cloghan 0–01
1957 Edenderry 3–06 Clara 0–02
1958 Rhode 2–10 Clara 2–05
1959[15] St Patrick's 2–08 Cloghan 0–06
1960 Clara 3–07, 0–08 Tullamore 1–05, 1–05
1961[16] Gracefield 2–07, 1–08 Tullamore 1–08, 1–08
1962[17] Daingean 2–07 Killeigh 0–12
1963[18] Tullamore 4–06 Gracefield 1–08
1964 Clara 1–10 Rhode 1–07
1965[19] Daingean 0–09 Gracefield 0–06
1966 Rhode 0–11 Clara 1–07
1967[20] Rhode 1–07 Daingean 0–07
1968[21] Ballycumber 2–05 Gracefield 0–06
1969[22] Rhode 2–10, 1–11 Erin Rovers 2–08, 2–08
1970[23] Gracefield 1–08 Walsh Island 0–09
1971[24] Ferbane 4–10 Gracefield 1–09
1972[25] Gracefield 1–15 Ferbane 2–10
1973[26] Tullamore 1–06 St Carthage 0–07
1974[27] Ferbane 2–07, 1–09 Gracefield 1–04, 1–09
1975[28] Rhode 1–12 Daingean 1–07
1976[29] Ferbane 1–07, 2–11 Walsh Island 0–09, 2–11
1977[30] Tullamore 2–07 Daingean 1–06
1978[31] Walsh Island 4–09 Rhode 1–12
1979[32] Walsh Island 0–10 Rhode 0–08
1980[33] Walsh Island 2–08 Ferbane 1–05
1981 Walsh Island 1–10, 0–07 Clara 1–05, 0–07
1982[34] Walsh Island 0–11 Rhode 0–08
1983 Walsh Island 1–10, 0–0–08 Ferbane 1–07, 0–08
1984 Gracefield 1–10 Edenderry 0–08
1985 Edenderry 1–07 Raheen 1–06
1986[35] Ferbane 1–16 Kilcormac 0–05
1987 Ferbane 1–06 Clara 1–03
1988[36] Ferbane 1–12 Tullamore 2–03
1989[37] Ferbane 3–14 Rhode 1–09
1990[38] Ferbane 5–09 Gracefield 1–06
1991 Clara 3–07 Gracefield 1–06
1992[39] Ferbane 2–07 Tullamore 1–09
1993 Clara 4–08 Ferbane 2–11
1994[40] Ferbane 0–10 Shannonbridge 0–08
1995[41] Edenderry 2–10 Clara 1–10
1996[42] Shannonbridge 1–11 Tullamore 0–12
1997 Edenderry 1–15 Ferbane 1–14
1998 Rhode 0–1–11 Edenderry 1–04
1999 Edenderry 2–09, 1–07 Rhode 0–13, 1–07
2000 Tullamore 1–09 Shamrocks 0–10
2001 Edenderry 1–09 Rhode 1–06
2002 Tullamore 1–08 Gracefield 0–08
2003 Clara 1–09 Rhode 1–07
2004 Rhode 3–12 Gracefield 1–05
2005 Rhode 2–10 Shamrocks 0–13
2006 Rhode 2–06 Clara 0–09
2007 Tullamore 1–12 Shamrocks 0–12
2008 Rhode 1–20 Tullamore 2–04
2009 Clara 2–07 Rhode 1–09
2010 Rhode 3–09 Clara 2–11
2011 Edenderry 0–09 Clara 0–08
2012[43] Rhode 0–15 Clara 1–06
2013[44] Tullamore 2–07 Rhode 0–09
2014[45] Rhode 0–13 Edenderry 1–07
2015[46] Edenderry 1–12 Rhode 1–10
2016[47] Rhode 1–14 Ferbane 0–09
2017[48] Rhode 0–12 Clara 0–09
2018 Rhode 1–18 Ferbane 0–10
2019[49] Ferbane 2–13 Rhode 0–14
2020[50] Rhode 1–09 Tullamore 1–07
2021 Tullamore 0–09, 1–08 Rhode 1–04, 1–08
2022[51] Rhode 1–09 Tullamore 0–11
2023 Tullamore 1–05 Ferbane 0–06

Wins listed by club

# Club Wins Years won
1 Rhode
31
 1900, 1918, 1920, 1923, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1931, 1939, 1940, 1944, 1949, 1955, 1958, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1975, 1998, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022
2 Tullamore
29
 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899, 1908, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1917, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1930, 1932, 1935, 1941, 1946, 1948, 1954, 1956, 1963, 1973, 1977, 2000, 2002, 2007, 2013, 2021, 2023
3 Walsh Island
12
 1933, 1934, 1937, 1938, 1942, 1943, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983
Ferbane 1914, 1971, 1974, 1976, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1994, 2019
5 Edenderry
11
 1936, 1951, 1953, 1957, 1985, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2011, 2015
6 Clara
6
 1960, 1964, 1991, 1993, 2003, 2009
7 Geashill
5
 1902, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907
8 Gracefield
4
 1961, 1970, 1972, 1984
9 Daingean
3
 1909, 1962, 1965
10 St Mary's
2
 1947, 1950
Cloghan 1903, 1945
Killeigh 1915, 1916
11 Shannonbridge
1
 1996
Ballycumber 1968
St Patrick's 1959
Durrow 1952
Clonmore 1919
Banagher 1910
Quarrymount 1901

References

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