Laois Ladies Senior Football Club Championship

Laois Ladies Football Championship
Code	Ladies Football
Founded	1976
Trophy	Lulu Carroll trophy
Title holders	Sarsfields (6th title)
First winner	The Heath
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.

Key

By Year

By Club Club No First Last RU First Last Timahoe 12 1992 2012 12 1990 2015 The Heath 11 1976 1989 2 1979 1987 Crettyard 11 1978 2004 17 1977 2005 Sarsfields 6 2008 2016 6 2003 2012 Shanahoe 1 2006 1 2004 Ballyroan 0 - 2 1976 1978 Portlaoise 0 - 1 2016

Back-to-back wins No. Team (Years) 7 The Heath (1980–86) 4 Timahoe (1998-01) Sarsfields (2013–16) 3 Crettyard (1993–95) 2 The Heath (1976–77) Crettyard (1978–79) The Heath (1988–89) Crettyard (1990–91) Timahoe (2009–10)

Consecutive Appearances No. Team (Years) 26 Crettyard (1977-02) 14 Timahoe (1990-03) 11 The Heath (1979–89) Sarsfields (2006–16) 9 Timahoe (2007–15) 2 The Heath (1976–77) Crettyard (2004–05)

Head-to-Head Matrix Winner\Loser B C P Sa Sh TH Ti Wins Ballyroan - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Crettyard 1 - 0 0 1 2 7 11 Portlaoise 0 0 - 1 0 0 0 1 Sarsfields 0 0 1 - 0 0 5 6 Shanahoe 0 0 0 1 - 0 0 1 The Heath 1 10 0 0 0 - 0 11 Timahoe 0 7 0 5 0 0 - 12 Losses 2 17 1 6 1 2 12 40

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.

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