The Kerry Intermediate Football Championship is an annual

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competition contested by mid-tier Kerry GAA clubs. Rathmore are the title holders (2022)..

Teams

2022 Teams

Honours

The winners can be promoted to play in the

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in the year after they win this competition. The winners of the Kerry Intermediate Football Championship progress to the

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, representing Kerry, later that year, or, as was the case in 2021, the following year. They often do well there and recent winners include Templenoe in 2019 and Na Gaeil winning in 2022 after winning the Kerry Intermediate Football Championship in 2021.

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made it 12 wins for Kerry out of 13 in 2018. The winners can then go on and win the All-Ireland Intermediate Club Football Championship title like Milltown/Castlemaine did in 2012. Teams beaten in the first round take part in the Intermediate Football Shield. The winners collect the Fenian Cup.

History

The competition was revived in 1959, and District Boards had the right to enter teams. Kerry senior players play in the Kerry Intermediate Football Championship. 2014 All-Ireland winner Peter Crowley had a season-ending cruciate injury from playing for Laune Rangers in it in 2019 and missed the

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as a result. 2021 winners Na Gaeil boasted ex-

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, Diarmuid O'Connor and brothers Jack and Andrew Barry in their ranks.

Roll of honour

Wins listed by club

* Kenmare Shamrocks (5): 1940, 1968, 1970, 1972, 2016 *

Annascaul Annascaul or Anascaul () is a village on the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry, Ireland. It is situated 32.9 kilometres west of Tralee on the N86 Tralee - Dingle national secondary road near its junction with the R561 regional road to Castlema ...

(4): 1982, 1987, 1992, 2007 * Dingle (4): 1988, 1989, 1996, 2004 * Milltown/Castlemaine (4): 1991, 1994, 2003, 2011 *

Ballylongford Ballylongford (historically ''Bealalongford'', from ) is a village near Listowel in northern County Kerry, Ireland. Geography The village is situated near the estuary of the Ballyline River, on Ballylongford Bay, a tidal estuary of the River Sha ...

(3): 1971, 1976, 1977 *

Castleisland Desmonds Castleisland Desmonds are a Gaelic Athletic Association club in Castleisland, County Kerry, Ireland. The club won its first County Championship in 1950. They won others in 1981, 1982 and 1984. They won the Munster Club Championship and All-I ...

(3): 1976, 1979, 1981 * An Ghaeltacht (3): 1933, 1998, 2017 *

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(3): 1974, 2009, 2020 *

Valentia Young Islanders Valentia Young Islanders are a Gaelic Athletic Association club from Valentia Island, South County Kerry, Ireland. They play in Division 4 of the county league and in the Kerry Novice Football Championship. The club's most recent success has ...

(2): 1986, 1995 * Ardfert (2): 2006, 2014 * St Mary's (2): 2001, 2015 *

(2): 1997, 2018 * Rathmore (2): 1999, 2022 * Keel (1): 1969 * Dr Crokes (1): 1985 * Waterville (1): 1993 *

Listowel Emmets Listowel Emmets is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in Listowel, County Kerry, Ireland. They play in Division 3 of the County Football league and in the Kerry Intermediate Football Championship. Players from the club also compete in the ...

(1): 2002 * Legion (1): 2005 *

St Michael's/Foilmore St Michael's/Foilmore is a Gaelic Athletic Association football club from South Kerry in County Kerry, Ireland. Roll of honour * All-Ireland Intermediate Club Football Championship (1) 2009 * Munster Intermediate Club Football Championship: (1 ...

(1): 2008 *

Gneeveguilla Gneeveguilla, ( ), officially Gneevgullia (), is a small village in the Sliabh Luachra region of East County Kerry, Ireland. It lies about east of Killarney, close to the County Kerry/County Cork border. Location Gneeveguilla is situated in ...

(1): 2010 * Finuge (1): 2012 * Templenoe (1): 2019 * Castlegregory (1): 1975

References

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