2009 Leinster Senior Club Football Championship

2009 Leinster Senior Club Football Championship
Tournament details
County	Leinster
Year	2009

The Leinster Senior Club Football Championship 2009 will be the 42nd staging of the annual Leinster Senior Club Football Championship ran by the Leinster GAA. The competition will see the county champions of eleven counties of Leinsters compete for the title. The Kilkenny Senior Football Championship winners do not take part in the senior championship. The winners will be awarded the Cup and will go on to compete in the 2010 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship. The championship is scheduled to start on 25 October 2009 and conclude with the final on 6 December 2009.

Kilmacud Crokes are the current holders – beating ? in the Leinster Senior Club Football Championship 2008 final at ?.

Format

The championship takes the structure of an open-draw knock-out.

Competing teams

Each county in Leinster holds its own County Championship. The winner of the eleven championships qualify for the Leinster Club Championship.

Team	Qualified as	Last appearance	Notes
Rathvilly	Carlow Champions	2004	Rathvilly were knocked out at the quarter-final stage of the competition by Clara of Offaly.
Ballyboden St. Enda's	Dublin Champions	1995
St Laurence's	Kildare Champions	First Appearance	Knocked out in the first round by Clara
Portlaoise	Laois Champions	2008	Won the competition in 2004 and went on to be all-Ireland club champions in March 2005.
Clonguish	Longford Champions	2008
Mattock Rangers	Louth Champions	2005	Knocked out in the first round by Portlaoise.
Senchelstown	Meath Champions	2007	Knocked out at the quarter-final stage by Portlaoise of Laois.
Clara	Offaly Champions	2003
Garrycastle	Westmeath Champions	2004
Horsewood	Wexford Champions	2006	Knocked out in the first round by Clonguish.
Rathnew	Wicklow Champions	2005	Won the competition in 2001. Knocked out at the quarter-final stage by Ballyboden St. Enda's

First round

25 October 2009	Mattock Rangers (Louth)	0-02 – 2-21	Portlaoise (Laois)	Portlaoise
	D Reid 0-1 (0-1f), C Grimes 0-1 (0-1f)	[1]	B Fitzgerald 1-4 (0-1f), P Cahillane 1-2 (0-2f), C Rogers 0-4, Z Tuohy 0-3 (0-1f), B McCormack, P McNulty 0-2 each, B Mulligan, K Lillis, A Kelly, R Maher 0-1 each	Portlaoise

25 October 2009	Clara (Offaly)	1-12 – 2-08	St Laurences (Kildare)	Newbridge Referee: D Fahey (Longford)
	R Brady 0-1; J O’Hara 0-1, E Brady 1-0, J Reynolds 0-5, T Deehan 0-5(fs).	[2]	T O’Neill 0-1, B Mackey 0-2(fs), R Lawlor 1-2, J Fogarty 1-2, D Lawlor 0-1.	Newbridge Referee: D Fahey (Longford)

25 October 2009	Clonguish (Longford)	2-10 – 0-05	Horsewood (Wexford)	Newbridge
		[3]		Newbridge

Quarter finals

8 November 2009	Portlaoise (Laois)	3-12 – 1-06	Senchelstown (Meath)	Portlaoise
				Portlaoise

8 November 2009	Clara (Offaly)	0-14 – 1-08	Rathvilly (Carlow)	Tullamore
				Tullamore

8 November 2009	Clonguish (Longford)	0-15 – 1-14	Garrycastle (Westmeath)	Longford
				Longford

8 November 2009 2.30	Ballyboden St. Enda's (Dublin)	1-10 – 1-07	Rathnew (Wicklow)	Parnell Park Referee: Maurice Deegan
	C Keaney 0-5 (0-3f), D Shovlin 1-0, D OMahony, S Lambert, K Naughton, A Kerin (0-1f), P Galvin 0-1 each.	[4]	T Gill 0-5 (0-5f), L Glynn 1-1, N Mernagh 0-1.	Parnell Park Referee: Maurice Deegan

Semi finals

22 November 2009	Ballyboden St. Enda's (Dublin)	0-00 – 0-00	Garrycastle (Westmeath)	Westmeath
				Westmeath

22 November 2009	Clara (Offaly)	0-03 – 1-09	Portlaoise (Laois)	Portlaoise
	P Cahillane 1-3 (1-0 pen); B Fitzgerald (0-2f), P McNulty 0-2 each, B Smyth, J Fennell 0-1 each.	[5]	T Deehan (0-1f), S Deehan, J O’Hara 0-1 each.	Portlaoise

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