The All-Ireland Minor Football Championship features players at under seventeen level (players must be under 17 on 1 January of the year of the competition. The first minor championship was played in 1929 when
Clare were crowned the champions. The championship has been held every year since then except for a period during '
The Emergency'.
Kerry are the most successful team in minor football with 16 titles in total, closely followed on the winners list by
Dublin on 11 and
Cork on 11.
Kerry also won an unequalled five-in-a-row from 2014 to 2018. Three teams have achieved three-in-a-rows –
Kerry from 1931 to 1933;
Cork from 1967 to 1969; and
Dublin from 1954 to 1956. The coveted treble of winning
senior,
under-21 and minor titles in the same year has been achieved on just one occasion, by
Kerry in 1975. Because teams will only play together for at most, about two or three years, unlike the senior competition, it is unusual that one county will dominate for periods any longer than this. The current champions are Derry, who defeated Armagh on 7 July 2024 to win 2024 All Ireland Minor Championship. ==Wins listed by county==