Yorkshire GAA

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


County colours
A Yorkshire GAA flag design

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. The Yorkshire County Board was established in 1948, with several clubs being formed in Leeds around the same time.

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

The ladies’ football scene in Yorkshire officially began in 1988 with the formation of the Pennine League between clubs in Lancashire and Yorkshire. 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
  • 2026 St Vincents

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
  • 2026 St Vincents

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
  • Ladies'
    • All-Britain Ladies' Football Championship
      • 1st place, gold medalist(s) Winners: 2018

Hurling and camogie

Clubs

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

Club name Teams Location Pitch
Yorkshire Emeralds Hurling Leeds Pairc Beeston

Honours

Yorkshire Emeralds

  • Lancashire SHC: 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Runners-Up (2): 2025, 2026

County team

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

References

  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.
  3. 1 2 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.
  5. ↑ 247dottv (19 October 2025). 2025 Senior Hurling Championship Final - Ceann Creige vs Yorkshire Emeralds. Retrieved 3 October 2026 – via YouTube.{{cite AV media}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  6. ↑ 247dottv (30 September 2026). 2026 Lancashire Senior Hurling Championship Final - Fullen Gaels vs Yorkshire Emeralds. Retrieved 3 October 2026 – via YouTube.{{cite AV media}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)