The Kilkenny Junior Football Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the J. J. Kavanagh & Sons Junior Football Championship and abbreviated to the Kilkenny JFC) is an annual

Gaelic football Gaelic football ( ga, Peil Ghaelach; short name '), commonly known as simply Gaelic, GAA or Football is an Irish team sport. It is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch. The objective of the sport is to score by kic ...

competition organised by the Kilkenny County Board of the

Gaelic Athletic Association The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA; ga, Cumann Lúthchleas Gael ; CLG) is an Irish international amateur sporting and cultural organisation, focused primarily on promoting indigenous Gaelic games and pastimes, which include the traditional ...

and contested by the junior-graded clubs in the county of Kilkenny in

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. It is the third tier overall in the entire Kilkenny football championship system. St. Patrick's are the reigning champions, having beaten

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by 2–09 to 0–13 in the 2023 final.

List of finals

References

{{Kilkenny GAA, state=expanded Kilkenny GAA club championships Gaelic football competitions in County Kilkenny Junior Gaelic football county championships