Leinster Senior Football Championship

Leinster Senior Football Championship
Current season or competition: 2016 Leinster Senior Football Championship
Irish	Craobh Sinsir Peile Laighean
Code	Gaelic football
Founded	1888
Trophy	Delaney Cup
No. of teams	11 (2014)
Title holders	Dublin (55th title)
Most titles	Dublin (55 titles)
Sponsors	Toyota Ulster Bank Vodafone

The Leinster Senior Football Championship (sponsored by Toyota, Ulster Bank, Vodafone) is the premier "knockout" competition in the game of Gaelic football played in the province of Leinster in Ireland. The series of games are organised by the Leinster Council of the Gaelic Athletic Association and are played during the summer months. The competition involves the counties of Leinster playing against each other. The Leinster Football Final is played in July in Croke Park, Dublin. The winning county is presented with the Delaney Cup, named after a famous Laois GAA family, and advance to the quarter finals of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship.

Dublin are the most successful county, having won the championship on 55 separate occasions, more than twice as many as their nearest rivals Meath, although Wexford won 6 consecutive championships between 1913 and 1918, a feat equalled by Kildare between 1926 and 1931. It was unequalled by any other team, until Dublin won their own 6-in-a-row between 1974 and 1979.

The Leinster Football Championship is run on a knock-out basis, whereby a team is eliminated from the competition once they lose. All of the counties of Leinster except Kilkenny participate in the championship. The draw is seeded, with the previous year's semi-finalists getting byes to the quarter-finals. Six of the remaining seven teams are drawn for three preliminary round matches, while the seventh team also gets a bye to the quarter-finals.

The Leinster championship is contested by 11 of the 12 counties in Leinster. Kilkenny is currently the only county not to compete.

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