Sarsfields Mountmellick LFC
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| Founded: | 1995 | ||||||||
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| County: | Laois | ||||||||
| Colours: | Blue and amber | ||||||||
| Coordinates: | 53°06′13.56″N 7°18′14.15″W / 53.1037667°N 7.3039306°W | ||||||||
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Sarsfields LFC Laois is a Ladies' Gaelic Football Association Ladies football club based in Mountmellick in County Laois. It fields teams in Ladies football from juvenile up to adult.
At adult level, the club fields football teams at Senior and Junior.[citation needed] The club colours are blue and amber.[citation needed] Sarsfields uses the same crest as Mountmellick GAA.[citation needed]
History
[edit]Sarsfields LFC was set up in 1995 to cater for girls from the Mountmellick parish area(also caters for Rosenallis) who wished to play Football.[citation needed]
It was agreed[according to whom?] to call the new club Sarsfields, originating from teams in the Mountmellick area in the past and prominent Sarsfield street in Mountmellick which includes the RC church, concert hall and Mountmellick credt union.[citation needed]
Sarsfields won their first Laois Ladies Senior Football Championship in 2008.[1]
Sarsfields are one of the most successful ladies football clubs in Laois having won the Laois Ladies Senior Football Championship 9 times during which they set won a record 7 years in a row from 2013-2019.[2] They also made 16 consecutive appearances in the Laois Ladies Senior Football Championship Final from 2006-2021.
They have won the Leinster Ladies' Senior Club Football Championship 3 times(2008,2013,2014).[citation needed]
In 2022, their second team won the Laois Junior Football Championship[3]
Championship Honours
[edit]| Competition | Years won |
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| Leinster Ladies' Senior Club Football Championship| | 2008, 2013, 2014,[citation needed] |
| Laois Ladies Senior Football Championship | 2008, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019[citation needed] |
| Laois Ladies Junior Football Championship | 2000, 2022[citation needed] |
References
[edit]- ^ Reporter, LaoisToday (2019-09-06). "Remember the Game: Sarsfields deny Timahoe to win historic first title in 2008". Laois Today. Retrieved 2024-11-22.
- ^ Egan, Andrew (2019-09-08). "Sensational second-half helps Sarsfields bring home seventh Senior title in-a-row". www.leinsterexpress.ie. Retrieved 2024-11-21.
- ^ Lyons, Darragh (2022-09-24). "Extra-Time dominance sees Sarsfields claim Laois Ladies Junior Football title". Laois Today. Retrieved 2024-11-22.