Tipperary Senior Football Championship
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For information on the hurling equivelant see: Tipperary Senior Club Hurling Championship
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The Tipperary Senior Football Club Championship is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association club competition between the top Tipperary Clubs. The winners of the Tipperary Championship winners qualify to represent their county in the Munster Club Championship and in turn, advance to the All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship. Over the decades, the championship has been dominated by teams from South Tipperary, though Loughmore-Castleiney from Mid Tipperary strongly challenge in most seasons and were champions in 2004. Kilruane McDonagh were the last North Tipperary team to be victorious in 1975, while teams from West Tipperary have also figured in the honours list, including the current holders, Aherlow who won their first championship in 2006. Other teams from the West to have won the championship are Galtee Rovers, who were last victorious in 1980/81, and Arravale Rovers, champions in 1985. The latter have been relegated to Intermediate level for 2007, leaving Tipperary Town without a senior team, a development that does not augur well for the game in the County and is a direct result of a relegation system which is rapidly losing support among the followers of the game.
Over the years, prominent senior football Clubs include Fethard, Clonmel Commercials, Moyle Rovers, Ardfinnan, Grangemockler, Kilsheelan and Cahir from South Tipperary. West County teams who are consistent participants in the championship are Aherlow, Arravale Rovers and Galtee Rovers while in most years, Loughmore-Castleiney almost unfailingly represent mid Tipperary while Templemore occasionally represented by JK. Brackens and Templetuohy-Moyne also occasionally compete. The most successful teams to date have been Fethard and Commercials, though in recent years, Moyle Rovers have been to the fore with a number of wins. The champions in 2005 were Ardfinnan who made a winning return to the roll of honour after an absence of 31 years, while 2006 will be recorded as a notable year in West Tipperary when their divisional champions, Aherlow lifted the laurels for the first time and brought the title to the storied glen.
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[edit] Roll of Honour
| Year | Winner | Runners Up |
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| 2006 | Aherlow 2-10 | Moyle Rovers 0-5 |
| 2005 | Ardfinnan 1-5 | Loughmore/Castleiney 1-4 |
| 2004 | Loughmore-Castleiney | Moyle Rovers |
| 2003 | Cahir 0-7 | Ardfinnan 0-4 |
| 2002 | Clonmel Commercials 1-14 | Aherlow 1-5 |
| 2001 | Fethard 1-13 | Aherlow 0-8 |
| 2000 | Moyle Rovers | Loughmore/Castleiney |
| 1999 | Moyle Rovers | Clonmel Commercials |
| 1998 | Moyle Rovers | Ardfinnan |
| 1997 | Fethard | Aherlow |
| 1996 | Moyle Rovers | Clonmel Commercials |
| 1995 | Moyle Rovers | Clonmel Commercials |
| 1994 | Clonmel Commercials | Loughmore/Castleiney |
| 1993 | Fethard | Loughmore/Castleiney |
| 1992 | Loughmore-Castleiney | Fethard |
| 1991 | Fethard | Clonmel Commercials |
| 1990 | Clonmel Commercials | Loughmore-Castleiney |
| 1989 | Clonmel Commercials | Fethard |
| 1988 | Fethard | Clonmel Commercials |
| 1987 | Loughmore-Castleiney | Clonmel Commercials |
| 1986 | Clonmel Commercials | Fethard |
| 1985 | Arravale Rovers | Loughmore-Castleiney |
| 1984 | Fethard | Clonmel Commercials |
| 1983 | Loughmore-Castleiney | Fethard |
| 1982 | Clonmel Commercials | Fethard |
| 1981 | Galtee Rovers | Kilsheelan |
| 1980 | Galtee Rovers | Loughmore-Castleiney |
| 1979 | Loughmore-Castleiney | Galtee Rovers |
| 1978 | Fethard | Galtee Rovers |
| 1977 | Loughmore-Castleiney | Galtee Rovers |
| 1976 | Galtee Rovers | Arravale Rovers |
| 1975 | Kilruane McDonagh | Loughmore-Castleiney |
| 1974 | Ardfinnan | Fethard |
| 1973 | Loughmore-Castleiney | Ardfinnan |
| 1972 | Kilsheelan | Ardfinnan |
| 1971 | Clonmel Commercials | Ardfinnan |
| 1970 | Ardfinnan | |
| 1969 | Clonmel Commercials | Ardfinnan |
| 1968 | Kilsheelan | Ardfinnan |
| 1967 | Clonmel Commercials | Ardfinnan |
| 1966 | Clonmel Commercials | Inane Rovers |
| 1965 | Clonmel Commercials | Moneygall |
| 1964 | Ardfinnan | Clonmel Commercials |
| 1963 | Ardfinnan | Templemore |
| 1962 | Ardfinnan | Thurles Crokes |
| 1961 | St. Flannan's | Lattin-Cullen |
| 1960 | Thurles Crokes | Commercial Commercials |
| 1959 | St. Flannan's | Loughmore-Castleiney |
| 1958 | St. Flannan's, | Loughmore-Castleiney |
| 1957 | Fethard | Loughmore-Castleiney |
| 1956 | Clonmel Commercials | Loughmore/Castleiney |
| 1955 | Loughmore-Castleiney | Arravale Rovers |
| 1954 | Fethard | |
| 1953 | St. Patrick's Drangan/Cloneen) | |
| 1952 | Old Bridge, Clonmel | Galtee Rovers |
| 1951 | Ballingarry | Galtee Rovers |
| 1950 | Galtee Rovers | |
| 1949 | Galtee Rovers | |
| 1948 | Clonmel Commercials | |
| 1947 | St. Patrick's, Drangan/Cloneen | Galtee Rovers |
| 1946 | Loughmore-Castleiney | |
| 1945 | Army (10th Battalion) | |
| 1944 | Clonmel Commercials | |
| 1943 | Army (10th Battalion) | Fethard |
| 1942 | Fethard | Arravale Rovers |
| 1941 | Arravale Rovers | Loughmore/Casleliney |
| 1940 | Loughmore-Castleiney | |
| 1939 | Ardfinnan | |
| 1938 | Fethard | |
| 1937 | Clonmel shamrocks | |
| 1936 | Templemore | |
| 1935 | Ardfinnan | |
| 1934 | Clonmel Shamrocks | |
| 1933 | Clonmel Shamrocks | |
| 1932 | Kilsheelan | Grangemockler |
| 1931 | Grangemockler | |
| 1930 | Kilsheelan | Cahir/Ardfinnan |
| 1929 | Mullinahone | |
| 1928 | Fethard | Kilsheelin |
| 1927 | Fethard | Ardfinnan |
| 1926 | Templemore | |
| 1925 | Templemore | |
| 1924 | Fethard | |
| 1923 | Fethard | |
| 1922 | Fethard | |
| 1920 | Fethard | |
| 1919 | Fethard | |
| 1918 | Fethard | |
| 1917 | Fethard | |
| 1915 | Nenagh | |
| 1914 | Loughmore/Castleliney | Nenagh |
| 1913 | Mullinahone | |
| 1912 | Mullinahone | |
| 1911 | Nenagh Institute | |
| 1910 | Tipperary O'Learys | |
| 1909 | Grangemockler | |
| 1908 | Cloneen | |
| 1907 | Grangemockler | |
| 1906 | Grangemockler | |
| 1905 | Grangemockler | |
| 1904 | Grangemockler | |
| 1903 | Grangemockler | |
| 1902 | Tipperary Town | |
| 1901 | Clonmel Shamrocks | |
| 1900 | Clonmel Shamrocks | |
| 1899 | Arravale Rovers | Clonmel Commercials |
| 1898 | Clonmel Shamrocks | |
| 1897 | Clonmel Shamrocks | |
| 1896 | Arravale Rovers | Grangemockler |
| 1895 | Arravale Rovers | Loughmore/Castleiney |
| 1894 | Arravale Rovers | |
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| 1892 | ||
| 1891 | ||
| 1890 | Grangemockler | |
| 1889 | Bohercrowe | |
| 1888 | Bohercrowe | |
| 1887 | Fethard | |
| 1886 | Templemore |
[edit] North Tipperary
While there are currently no senior teams in North Tipperary, divisional football championships are played in the lesser grades.
[edit] Mid Tipperary
The Mid Tipperary Championship will be contested by three teams in 2007:J.K. Brackens, Loughmore-Castleiney and Moyne-Templetuohy. The following is a list of winners of the Mid-Tipperary Football Championship.
[edit] West Tipperary
The West Tipperary Championship will be contested by three teams in 2007: Aherlow, Éire Óg Anacarty and Galtee Rovers.The championship is a knockout competition with the winners advancing to the quarter final of the County Championship.
[edit] South Tipperary
The South Tipperary Championship is contested by nine teams: Ardfinnan, Cahir, Carrick Swans, Clonmel Commercials, Fethard, Grangemockler, Killenaule, Moyle Rovers and Mullinahone. The championship is a 'knockout' competition.
