Leinster Football Association
Formation | 1892 |
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Headquarters | National Sports Campus |
Location | |
Region served | Leinster |
General Secretary | Peter Doyle |
President | Tony Martin |
Parent organization | Football Association of Ireland |
Affiliations | Irish Football Association (1892–1921) |
Website | http://www.leinsterfa.ie |
The Leinster Football Association (LFA) is the governing body for
History
Early years
The LFA was founded on 27 October 1892 at a meeting in the Wicklow Hotel on Exchequer Street,
Split from IFA
Clubs affiliated to the LFA regularly competed in competitions organised by the IFA.
As a result of the disruption caused by the
Representative Games
Within a few a years of the LFA forming a Leinster XI began to play an Ulster XI, selected initially by the IFA and later by the County Antrim FA, in a regular series of representative matches. Ciarán Priestley identifies one of the earliest such games as taking place in Belfast on 9 December 1893. According to the Peter Byrne, these games were a valuable source of income for the early LFA.[7] [8][9] Since 1999–2000 a Leinster XI has played in an annual fixture against a Scottish Amateur Football Association XI. The winners were originally awarded the Alan R. MacKay Trophy. However, since 2014 they were awarded the Graham Harkness Memorial Trophy.[10] A combined Leinster & Munster team finished as runners up in the 2011 UEFA Regions' Cup. They lost 2 – 1 to a team representing the Braga Football Association.
Cup competitions
- Leinster Senior Cup
- LFA President's Cup
- Leinster Junior Cup
- LFA Metropolitan Cup – the league cup of the Leinster Senior League
- LFA Over 35’s Cup
Affiliated Leagues
- Leinster Senior League
- Athletic Union League
- Amateur Football League [note 1][11]
- Carlow & District Football League
- Combined Counties Football League [note 2][12]
- Dundalk Summer League
- Dublin and District Schoolboys League
- Kildare & District Football League
- Kildare Underage League
- Kilkenny & District Soccer League
- Leinster Football League Development League
- North East Football League
- North Dublin Schoolboys League
- North Louth League
- United Churches Football League [note 3][13]
- Wexford Football League
- Wicklow & District Football League
Source:[14]
See also
- Irish Universities Football Union
- Connacht Football Association
- Munster Football Association
- Women's Football Association of Ireland
- Galway Football Association
Further reading
Joe Dodd, George Briggs (1992). 100 Years of L.F.A: Leinster Football Association Centenary Yearbook.
Notes
References
- ISBN 1-900110-06-7.
- ^ www.braywanderers.com
- ^ Leinster Senior League
- ^ Ciarán Priestley: The Bohemian Football Club: The Enduring Legacy of an Idle Youth Archived 2015-10-04 at the Wayback Machine
- ISBN 1-903688-34-5.
- ^ Byrne, Peter (2012). Green Is The Colour: The Story of Irish Football. Andre Deutsch.
- ^ Ciarán Priestley: The Bohemian Football Club: The Enduring Legacy of an Idle Youth Archived 2015-10-04 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Northern Ireland's Footballing Greats
- ^ Byrne, Peter (2012). Green Is The Colour: The Story of Irish Football. Andre Deutsch.
- ^ Alan R MacKay Trophy
- ^ "Amateur Football League". www.amateurfootballleague.com. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
- ^ "Combined Counties Football League". ccfl.ie. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
- ^ "United Churches Football League". www.ucfl.ie. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
- ^ "Affiliated Leagues – LFA". www.leinsterfa.ie. Retrieved 20 March 2016.