Yorkshire GAA

Yorkshire GAA
Irish:	Sír Eabhrac
Founded:	1948; 78 years ago
Province:	Britain
Ground(s):	Páirc Beeston, Beeston
County colours:	Blue White
County teams
Football Championship:	All-Ireland Junior Football Championship

County colours

The Yorkshire County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), known as Yorkshire GAA, is one of the county boards of the GAA outside Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in Yorkshire and North East England. The county board is also responsible for the Yorkshire county teams. With Hertfordshire, Gloucestershire, Lancashire, London, Scotland, and Warwickshire, the board makes up the British Provincial Board.

History

Gaelic games have been played in Yorkshire as early as the 1940s, with clubs being established by Irish immigrants travelling to Britain to find work.^[1] The Yorkshire County Board was established in 1948, with several clubs being formed in Leeds around the same time.^[2]

In 1987, Mayo and Dublin played a football challenge match at Elland Road in front of a crowd of 5000 spectators,^[3] with a second Elland Road match being played in 1988 between Mayo and Galway.^[3]

The ladies’ football scene in Yorkshire officially began in 1988 with the formation of the Pennine League between clubs in Lancashire and Yorkshire.^[4] A Pennine county team was formed in the same year, and in 1989, Pennine and London became the founding members of Britain LGFA. While Lancashire would become its own county board in the 1990s, Yorkshire LGFA was founded in 2018, with the ladies’ county team winning the LGFA Championship in the same year. The Pennine League continues to be played between the Lancashire and Yorkshire ladies’ clubs, with separate county championships also existing in the two counties.

Football

Clubs

Club name	Teams	Location	Pitch
Brothers Pearse	Men's - Senior Ladies' - Junior	Huddersfield	New Hey Road
Cú Chulainns / Tír na nÓg	Men's - Senior (Cú Chulainns) Ladies' - Junior (Tír na nÓg)	Newcastle	Killingworth
Hugh O'Neills	Men's - Senior Ladies' - Junior	Leeds	Pairc Beeston
John F Kennedys	Men's - Senior	Leeds
St Benedicts Harps	Men's - Senior	Leeds
St Vincents	Men's - Senior Ladies' - Junior	Sheffield	Norton Sports Park
York Irish	Training	York

Yorkshire Men's Senior Football Championship winners

2015 Hugh O'Neils
2016 St Benedicts Harps
2017 Hugh O'Neills
2018 Cu Chulainns
2019 Hugh O'Neills
2020 Hugh O'Neills
2021 St Vincents
2022 Brothers Pearse
2023 Hugh O'Neills
2024 Hugh O'Neills
2025 Hugh O'Neills

Yorkshire Ladies' Junior Football Championship winners

2018 Tír na nÓg
2019 Tír na nÓg
2020 not played
2021 Tír na nÓg
2022 Hugh O'Neills
2023 Brothers Pearse
2024 Hugh O'Neills
2025 Hugh O'Neills

County team

Yorkshire fields a men's county team in the All-Britain Junior Football Championship and a ladies' county team in the Britain LGFA Junior Championship. The Yorkshire men have not won the All-Britain since the tournament was restructured in 2022, and so have not yet competed in the new format of the All-Ireland Junior Football Championship.

Honours

Men's
- All-Ireland Junior Football Championship
  - Runners-Up (2): 1961, 1983
- All-Britain Junior Football Championship
  - Winners (4): 1961, 1983, 1996, 2001
Ladies'
- All-Britain Ladies' Football Championship
  - Winners: 2018

Hurling and camogie

Clubs

As Yorkshire's sole hurling team, Yorkshire Emeralds currently compete in the Lancashire system. There are no active camogie teams within Yorkshire.

Club name	Teams	Location	Pitch
Yorkshire Emeralds	Hurling	Leeds	Pairc Beeston

County team

Yorkshire has never competed in the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship.

References

^ "Gaelic football maintaining amateur ideals in Broad Acres". Yorkshire Post. 21 May 2020. Retrieved 6 May 2026.
^ "Untold Stories Articles". www.untoldstories.co.uk. Retrieved 6 May 2026.
^ ^a ^b Dolan, Damian (7 April 2021). "When GAA came to Elland Road Leeds". The Irish World. Retrieved 6 May 2026.
^ "Warwickshire". Ladies Gaelic Football. Retrieved 6 May 2026.

External links

Official Provincial Council of Britain GAA website Archived 10 April 2011 at the Wayback Machine

[1] "Gaelic football maintaining amateur ideals in Broad Acres". Yorkshire Post. 21 May 2020. Retrieved 6 May 2026.

[2] "Untold Stories Articles". www.untoldstories.co.uk. Retrieved 6 May 2026.

[:0-3] Dolan, Damian (7 April 2021). "When GAA came to Elland Road Leeds". The Irish World. Retrieved 6 May 2026.

[4] "Warwickshire". Ladies Gaelic Football. Retrieved 6 May 2026.

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