Louth Under-21 Football Championship


The Louth Under-21 Football Championship is a competition organised by Louth GAA for Gaelic football teams in County Louth.

History

First contested in 1972, the inaugural winners were Cooley Kickhams. As is the case nationally, amalgamated parish teams are a regular feature of the competition due to lack of numbers. The county board removed the competition from the calendar in the mid-1980s but it returned in 1991.
The competition has on occasion been run as an under-20 tournament, in line with changes introduced by the GAA in 2018. It reverted to the U-21 format in 2022. The county board scrapped the competition in 2023, when a new under-19 football championship was introduced in its place. The U-21 championship returned to the club calendar in 2025.
The McGeough Cup is presented to the captain of the winning side.

Finals

Mellifont Rovers - Mattock Rangers/Hunterstown/Glen Emmets combination
St Fursey's - Geraldines and St Bride's combination
Naomh Buithe - combination team from Monasterboice, Collon, and Tullyallen parishes