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Laois Ladies Senior Football Club Championship

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Code
  
Ladies Football

Trophy
  
Lulu Carroll trophy

First winner
  
The Heath

Founded
  
1976

Title holders
  
Sarsfields (6th title)

Most titles
  
Timahoe (12 titles)

The Laois Ladies senior football club championship has been running since 1976 - 41 finals. The competition has seen five clubs winning the title, with Sarsfields (Mountmellick) winning the latest in 2016, captained by Tracey Lawlor. The final has been played in a number of grounds around the county, often in O'Moore Park (29 times including replays). The cup is named after Lulu Carroll who was one of Laois' greatest ever ladies footballers. The winners progress on into the provincial championship and Laois has a good record for a small county, having won the Leinster championship on 13 occasions. All-Ireland glory has proven more elusive, however, with The Heath securing Laois' only two titles, in 1985 & 1986.

Statistics & Notable Scores

  • Crettyard have appeared in a record 28 finals - including a record 26-in-a-row between 1977 & 2002.
  • The competition has thrown up many repeated finals where two teams go head-to-head for a number of years in a row. These are:
  • Crettyard v The Heath (11 years/12 matches) 1979-1989
  • Crettyard v Timahoe (13 years/15 matches) 1990-2002
  • Timahoe v Sarsfields (9 years/10 matches) 2007-2015.
  • The most common match-ups have been Crettyard v Timahoe (14 finals), The Heath v Crettyard (12 finals) and Timahoe v Sarsfields (10 finals).
  • Sarsfield's 18pt winning margin in 2014 set a new record by beating the 1986 record of 17pts when The Heath beat Crettyard.
  • Sarsfield's 4-15 (27pts) total in 2014 set a new scoring record for the final, beating the previous record of 4-12 (24pts) set in 2001 by Timahoe.
  • Crettyard's losing score of 5-4 in 2001 would have won all bar the 1986, 1998, 2014 finals and the 2015 replay.
  • Crettyard also posted the lowest score of any team in the final: 0-2 in 1984.
  • The lowest winning score is 5pts - 1978 by Crettyard.
  • The highest scoring final was the 2001 final between Timahoe and Crettyard. Timahoe won 4-12 5-4, a total of 43 points.
  • The lowest scoring final was in 1978 when only 9 points were scored between the two teams.
  • There have been five draws: 1989, 1991, 2000, 2006 & 2015.
  • 2000 had the highest-scoring draw (17 points each), with 1989, the lowest (8 points each).
  • Timahoe's win over Crettyard in the 2001 replay was the biggest winning margin in a replay (10 points).
  • Sarsfield's 4-10 in 2015 is the highest score in a replay.
  • 2015 also had the highest-scoring replay (36 points).
  • Timahoe is the only team to have won the final in four different venues - the first victory in each of the four grounds were as follows: 1992 O'Moore Park, 1998 Stradbally, 2005 Ballylinan and 2012 Crettyard.
  • The Heath, in the first final, are the only team to have won on their first appearance when they beat Ballyroan. Since then, Crettyard (1977), Timahoe (1990), Sarsfields (2003), Shanahoe (2004) and Portlaoise (2016) have all lost on their first attempt.

    • References

    Laois Ladies Senior Football Club Championship Wikipedia
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