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Leinster Senior League

Founded	1896
Country	Ireland
Region	Leinster
Divisions	23
Level on pyramid	3–12
Domestic cup(s)	Leinster Senior Cup FAI Cup FAI Intermediate Cup FAI Junior Cup
League cup(s)	Metropolitan Cup Charlie Cahill Cup
Current champions	St. Mochta’s F.C.
Most championships	Shelbourne (12 titles)
Website	www.lsl.ie
Current: 2019–20

The Leinster Senior League is an association football league organised by the Leinster Football Association. The Leinster Senior League operates twenty three divisions. It also organises various cup competitions. Its Senior Division is a third level division in the Republic of Ireland football league system. Leinster Senior League teams also compete in the Leinster Senior Cup, the FAI Cup, the FAI Intermediate Cup and the FAI Junior Cup. In recent seasons the winners of the Senior Division have also qualified to play in the League of Ireland Cup. The vast majority of its member clubs are based in the Greater Dublin Area.

History

Foundation

Within a few seasons of the Leinster Football Association having been formed in 1892, the Leinster Senior League was established. Ciarán Priestley highlights a printed notice in the 4 September 2010 edition of The Irish Times. Under the headline "Leinster Football League" there is a report of "a general meeting of the league... held the other evening at 27 D'Olier Street". Priestley also lists Bohemians, Britannia, Dublin University, Leinster Nomads, Phoenix and Montpelier as participants in the first season. The Leinster Senior League website states it was established in 1896. However other sources suggest the league started a little later and was first played for in 1897–98 and that an unidentified British Army regimental team were the inaugural winners while Shelbourne were runners up.

League pyramid

There is currently no promotion or relegation system between the League of Ireland First Division (Level 2) and the provincial leagues (Level 3) in place.

Senior divisions

Senior

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Senior 1

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Senior 1A

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Senior 1B

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Junior leagues

This is a selection of teams playing in the lower levels of the Leinster Senior League.

Representative team

A Leinster Senior League representative team competes in the FAI Intermediate Interprovincial Tournament against teams representing the Ulster Senior League, the Munster Senior League and Connacht.

Notes

• ^1 This was possibly Sherwood Foresters who were the 1896-97 IFA Cup runners-up, losing to Cliftonville in the final. They were based in the Curragh, County Kildare.

1. Features teams from Dublin
2. Features teams from the Midlands and bordering counties
3. Features teams from Dublin

References

1. "Leinster Senior Football League". www.leinsterfa.ie. Retrieved 8 September 2024.
2. lsl.ie
3. Leinster Senior League
4. Ciarán Priestley: The Bohemian Football Club: The Enduring Legacy of an Idle Youth Archived 4 October 2015 at the Wayback Machine
5. "Amateur Football League". www.amateurfootballleague.com. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
6. "Combined Counties Football League". ccfl.ie. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
7. "United Churches Football League". www.ucfl.ie. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
8. "Affiliated Leagues – LFA". www.leinsterfa.ie. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
9. "Senior Sunday". finalwhistle.ie.ie. Retrieved 6 September 2024.
10. https://www.finalwhistle.ie/soccer/lsl-senior-1-sunday/%7Ctitle=Senior 1 Sunday| website=finalwhistle.ie| access-date=30 November 2022}}
11. "Senior 1A Sunday". lsl.ie. Retrieved 1 December 2022.
12. "Senior 1B Sunday". lsl.ie. Retrieved 1 December 2022.
13. "League Table 2016 FAI Intermediate Interprovincial Tournament". uslfootball.com. Archived from the original on 23 November 2016. Retrieved 22 November 2016.
14. IFA Cup, Rsssf
15. Where's My Country?, Rsssf

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