Meath Senior Football Championship
The Meath Senior Football Championship is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association club competition between the top Gaelic football clubs in Meath, Ireland.
Qualification for subsequent competitions
The winners of the Meath Senior Football Championship winners qualify to represent their county in the Leinster Senior Club Football Championship and in turn, go on to the All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship.Competition format
From 2020, 16 teams compete in the championship, with four groups of four teams. The top two finishers in each group qualify for the quarter-finals. The bottom two teams in each group progress to the relegation playoffs. The overall loser in the relegation playoffs gets relegated to the Intermediate Division.In the 2020 Meath Senior Football Championship, due to the short window available to complete the championship because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Meath county board decided that only the top team in each group would qualify for the semi-finals while only the bottom team in each group would take part in the relegation playoffs.
History
went from the Meath Junior Football Championship to Meath SFC winners in the space of four seasons in the early 21st-century, featuring Meath player Cian Ward, whose emergence as one of Meath's "most exciting talents" coincided with this run, while 1996 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship-winning captain Tommy Dowd also joined the club around this time.In the 2025 final, Summerhill defeated Ratoath 0-16 to 0–13.
Senior teams
The 16 teams which are due to compete in the 2026 Senior Football Championship include:| Club | Finish in 2025 | First year of current spell at Senior Level | S.F.C titles | Last S.F.C title |
| Ballinabrackey | Quarter-Finalist | 2020 | 0 | n/a |
| Donaghmore/Ashbourne | Quarter-Finalist | 2008 | 3 | 1942 |
| Dunshaughlin | Semi-Finalist | 2023 | 4 | 2024 |
| Gaeil Colmcille | Relegation Semi-Finalist | 2014 | 3 | 1991 |
| Kilbride | I.F.C Champions | 2026 | 5 | 1971 |
| Na Fianna | Non-Qualifier | 2013 | 0 | n/a |
| Rathkenny | Non-Qualifier | 2024 | 5 | 1923 |
| Ratoath | Runners-Up | 2016 | 3 | 2022 |
| Seneschalstown | Non-Qualifier | 1968 | 4 | 2009 |
| Simonstown Gaels | Relegation Semi-Finalist | 1996 | 2 | 2017 |
| Skryne | Semi-Finalist | 1938 | 13 | 2010 |
| St Colmcille's | Relegation Finalist | 2017 | 0 | n/a |
| St. Peter's Dunboyne | Non-Qualifier | 1993 | 3 | 2018 |
| Summerhill | Champions | 1972 | 9 | 2025 |
| Trim | Quarter-Finalist | 2022 | 1 | 1962 |
| Wolfe Tones | Quarter-Finalist | 2005 | 2 | 2021 |
Top winners
Roll of honour
- The 1965 final was abandoned mid-game. Skryne awarded the title.
Records
- Most titles:
- *20 - Navan O'Mahonys
- *13 - Skryne
- *10 - Navan Gaels
- Most consecutive titles:
- *6 - Bohermeen: 1909-1914
- *5 - Navan O'Mahonys: 1957-1961
- *4 - Summerhill: 1974-1977
- Most appearances in the SFC
- * 86+ - Skryne
- Most consecutive appearances in the SFC
- * 84 - Skryne: 1938–present
- * 62 - Trim: 1949-2011
- * 54 - Seneschalstown: 1968–present
- * 51 - Walterstown: 1965-2015
- Biggest win
- *44 points - Kilmainhamwood 10–19, 0-5 St Colmcille's: 1996
- *35 points - Summerhill 5-27, 0-7 Curraha: 2018
- Most points scored
- *174 - Summerhill: 2019
- *169 - Ratoath: 2019
- *168 - Kilmainhamwood: 1996
- Most points conceded
- *161 - Longwood: 2019
- *153 - Duleek/Bellewstown: 2017
- *141 - Gaeil Colmcille: 2004
- Leinster SCFC titles
- *2 - Walterstown: 1980, 1983
- *1 - Dunsaughlin: 2002; Summerhill: 1977