The Tyrone Senior Football Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the LCC Group ''Tyrone Senior Football Championship'') is an annual

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competition contested by top-tier

Tyrone GAA The Tyrone County Board ( ga, Cumann Lúthchleas Gael, Coiste Chontae Tír Eoghain), or Tyrone GAA, is one of the 32 county boards of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) in Ireland, and is responsible for the administration of Gaelic games i ...

clubs. The Tyrone County Board of the

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has organised it since 1904. In 2022, the ''

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'' said of the Tyrone SFC: "Tyrone can rightly lay claim to the most competitive senior football championship of them all just by the range of different winners it has produced over the last decade".

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are the title holders (2022) defeating

Carrickmore Carrickmore () is a village in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is situated in the historic barony of Omagh East, the civil parish of Termonmaguirk and the Roman Catholic Parish of Termonmaguirc between Cookstown, Dungannon and Omagh. ...

in the Final.

History

To date, 24 different clubs have won the Tyrone Senior Football Championship, though some of these no longer exist (including Washingbay Shamrocks, Cookstown Brian Óg, Fintona Davitts and Strabane Faugh-a-Bealach). The first tournament took place in the 1904–5 season and

Coalisland Na Fianna Coalisland Fianna is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in the town of Coalisland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. The club was founded in 1903 and its home is Fr. Peter Campbell Park. Honours * Tyrone Senior Football Championship ( ...

won that by defeating Strabane Lamh Dearg in the final. No competition was held in the 1906–7, 1909–13, 1914–16, 1918–19, 1920–23 seasons, nor in 1932. The 1939 competition was left unfinished.

is the club that has won the competition the most times (15), the most recent in 2005.

Dungannon Dungannon () is a town in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is the second-largest town in the county (after Omagh) and had a population of 14,340 at the 2011 Census. The Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council had its headquarters in the ...

is the club with the second highest number of wins (11), while Coalisland Na Fianna is the club with the third highest number of wins (10).Tyrone GAA Official Website
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Format

The 16 clubs in Division 1 of the All-County Football League in Tyrone compete on a straight knockout basis. Between 1999 and 2007, the competition was played for between 24 clubs.

Honours

The trophy presented to the winners is the O'Neill Cup. The winners qualify to represent their county in the

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. Tyrone winners do not often fare well in Ulster with

the only club from Tyrone to win the Ulster club championship which happened twice in 1993 and 2002. The winners can, in turn, go on to play in the

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List of finals

(r) = replay (aet) =

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;Notes † ''2020: Dungannon won 8–7 on penalties, after extra time''.

Wins listed by club

References

External links

Official Tyrone GAA Website

Tyrone Club Titles
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