# 2009 Leinster Senior Club Football Championship

The Leinster Senior Club Football Championship 2009 will be the 42nd staging of the annual Leinster Senior Club Football Championship ran by the Leinster GAA. The competition will see the county champions of eleven counties of Leinsters compete for the title. The Kilkenny Senior Football Championship winners do not take part in the senior championship. The winners will be awarded the Cup and will go on to compete in the 2010 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship. The championship is scheduled to start on 25 October 2009 and conclude with the final on 6 December 2009.
Kilmacud Crokes are the current holders – beating ? in the Leinster Senior Club Football Championship 2008 final at ?.

## Format

The championship takes the structure of an open-draw knock-out.

## Competing teams

Each county in Leinster holds its own County Championship. The winner of the eleven championships qualify for the Leinster Club Championship.
| Team | Qualified as | Last appearance | Notes |
| Rathvilly | Carlow Champions | 2004 | Rathvilly were knocked out at the quarter-final stage of the competition by Clara of Offaly. |
| Ballyboden St. Enda's | Dublin Champions | 1995 | |
| St Laurence's | Kildare Champions | First Appearance | Knocked out in the first round by Clara |
| Portlaoise | Laois Champions | 2008 | Won the competition in 2004 and went on to be all-Ireland club champions in March 2005. |
| Clonguish | Longford Champions | 2008 | |
| Mattock Rangers | Louth Champions | 2005 | Knocked out in the first round by Portlaoise. |
| Senchelstown | Meath Champions | 2007 | Knocked out at the quarter-final stage by Portlaoise of Laois. |
| Clara | Offaly Champions | 2003 | |
| Garrycastle | Westmeath Champions | 2004 | |
| Horsewood | Wexford Champions | 2006 | Knocked out in the first round by Clonguish. |
| Rathnew | Wicklow Champions | 2005 | Won the competition in 2001. Knocked out at the quarter-final stage by Ballyboden St. Enda's |

## First round

| 25 October 2009 | Mattock Rangers (Louth) | 0-02 – 2-21 | Portlaoise (Laois) | Portlaoise |
| 25 October 2009 | D Reid 0-1 (0-1f), C Grimes 0-1 (0-1f) | | B Fitzgerald 1-4 (0-1f), P Cahillane 1-2 (0-2f), C Rogers 0-4, Z Tuohy 0-3 (0-1f), B McCormack, P McNulty 0-2 each, B Mulligan, K Lillis, A Kelly, R Maher 0-1 each | Portlaoise |
| 25 October 2009 | Clara (Offaly) | 1-12 – 2-08 | St Laurences (Kildare) | Newbridge Referee: D Fahey (Longford) |
| 25 October 2009 | R Brady 0-1; J O’Hara 0-1, E Brady 1-0, J Reynolds 0-5, T Deehan 0-5(fs). | | T O’Neill 0-1, B Mackey 0-2(fs), R Lawlor 1-2, J Fogarty 1-2, D Lawlor 0-1. | Newbridge Referee: D Fahey (Longford) |
| 25 October 2009 | Clonguish (Longford) | 2-10 – 0-05 | Horsewood (Wexford) | Newbridge |

## Quarter finals

| 8 November 2009 | Portlaoise (Laois) | 3-12 – 1-06 | Senchelstown (Meath) | Portlaoise |
| 8 November 2009 | Clara (Offaly) | 0-14 – 1-08 | Rathvilly (Carlow) | Tullamore |
| 8 November 2009 | Clonguish (Longford) | 0-15 – 1-14 | Garrycastle (Westmeath) | Longford |
| 8 November 2009 2.30 | Ballyboden St. Enda's (Dublin) | 1-10 – 1-07 | Rathnew (Wicklow) | Parnell Park Referee: Maurice Deegan |
| 8 November 2009 2.30 | C Keaney 0-5 (0-3f), D Shovlin 1-0, D OMahony, S Lambert, K Naughton, A Kerin (0-1f), P Galvin 0-1 each. | | T Gill 0-5 (0-5f), L Glynn 1-1, N Mernagh 0-1. | Parnell Park Referee: Maurice Deegan |

## Semi finals

| 22 November 2009 | Ballyboden St. Enda's (Dublin) | 0-00 – 0-00 | Garrycastle (Westmeath) | Westmeath |
| 22 November 2009 | Clara (Offaly) | 0-03 – 1-09 | Portlaoise (Laois) | Portlaoise |
| 22 November 2009 | P Cahillane 1-3 (1-0 pen); B Fitzgerald (0-2f), P McNulty 0-2 each, B Smyth, J Fennell 0-1 each. | | T Deehan (0-1f), S Deehan, J O’Hara 0-1 each. | Portlaoise |