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O'Byrne Cup Current season or competition:
O'Byrne Cup 2011
Irish Corn Uí Bhroin Founded 1954 Title holders Kildare (9th title) First winner Offaly Most titles Kildare (9 titles) The O'Byrne Cup is a Gaelic football competition organised by the Leinster GAA. The competition is named after Matt O'Byrne, a former Wicklow GAA club officer. Participants include the twelve county teams and four further education colleges. The O'Byrne Cup 2011 champions are Kildare, who beat Louth in the final by a scoreline of 3-09 to 2-09. The O'Byrne Shield has been introduced for teams knocked out of the first stage of the Cup also.
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Top winners
Team Cups Winning years 1 Kildare 9 1962, 1968, 1970, 1973, 1976, 1982, 1989, 2003, 2011 2 Meath 8 1967, 1974, 1977, 1983, 1992, 2001, 2004, 2006 3 Dublin 7 1956, 1958, 1960, 1966, 1999, 2007, 2008 4 Offaly 6 1954, 1961, 1981, 1993, 1997, 1998 5 Laois 5 1978, 1987, 1991, 1994, 2005 6 Louth 4 1963, 1980, 1990, 2009 6 Wicklow 4 1955, 1957, 1986, 1996 8 Westmeath 3 1959, 1964, 1988 9 Longford 2 1965, 2000 10 Carlow 1 2002 Wexford 1 1995 DCU 1 2010 - No Competition in 1969, 1971, 1972, 1975, 1979, 1984, 1985.
Previous Finals
2011 Kildare 3-09 – 2-09 Louth Newbridge 2010 DCU 1-15 – 0-17 Louth Drogheda 2009 Louth 1-17 – 1-10 DCU Drogheda 2008 Dublin 2-12 – 1-14 Longford Parnell Park
Referee: Maurice Deegan2007 Dublin 2-13 – 1-18 Laois O'Moore Park
Referee: Derek Fahy1990 Louth 2-04 – 1-06 Kildare 1989 Kildare 2-08 – 0-09 Meath 1988 Westmeath 0-13 – 2-05 Laois 1988 Westmeath 0-09 – 2-03 Laois 1987 Laois 1-08 – 0-09 Meath 1986 Wicklow 1-07 – 0-06 Westmeath 1983 Meath 1-11 – 1-09 Longford 1982 Kildare 2-08 – 1-05 Wicklow 1981 Offaly 1-12 – 0-11 Dublin 1980 Louth 0-08 – 1-04 Dublin 1978 Laois 3-07 – 1-08 Carlow 1977 Meath 2-09 – 0-09 Offaly 1976 Kildare 1-09 – 0-09 Wexford 1974 Meath 1-09 – 2-05 Dublin 1973 Kildare 3-11 – 1-04 Dublin 1970 Kildare 2-08 – 0-08 Louth 1968 Kildare 2-07 – 1-06 Westmeath 1967 Meath 0-10 – 1-05 Dublin 1966 Dublin 1-05 – 0-06 Offaly 1965 Longford 1-09 – 1-06 Kildare 1964 Westmeath 1-09 – 1-05 Carlow 1963 Louth 1-10 – 0-10 Longford 1962 Kildare 2-06 – 1-07 Louth 1961 Offaly 1-09 – 0-06 Longford Replay 1960 Dublin 1-11 – 0-07 Louth 1960 Dublin 2-06 – 1-09 Louth 1959 Westmeath 1-05 – 1-04 Kildare Replay 1958 Dublin 2-09 – 2-08 Meath 1958 Dublin 1-06 – 1-06 Meath 1957 Wicklow 1-09 – 0-10 Kildare 1956 Dublin 1-10 – 1-03 Kildare 1955 Wicklow 1-06 – 0-07 Westmeath 1954 Offaly 0-10 – 1-05 Louth The O'Byrne Shield
The O'Byrne Shield is an inter county competition between the losers of the first round of the O'Byrne Cup. The competition began in 2006 with Longford winning in the final. The 2007 final was contested by Longford and Athlone IT and Longford won the game on a scoreline of 2-10 to 1-7, while the 2008 title was awarded to Laois after the competition was never completed.
Top winners
Team Winner Winning Years 1 Longford 2 2006, 2007 Laois 2 2008, 2009 3 Carlow 1 2010 Dublin 1 2011 External links
Leinster Inter-county Competitions Gaelic football Hurling Categories:- 1954 in Gaelic games
- O'Byrne Cup
- Leinster GAA inter-county football competitions
- Gaelic football cup competitions
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