Kildare Club Football
Kildare is very much a footballing county, with 105 teams from 40 clubs competing in the Senior and Junior Football Leagues. The highest-achieving club is Sarsfields GAA (Roseberry 'Sons of Sarsfield') who have won a total of 21 titles. Clane won 17; Raheens won 15; Carbury, 11; Round Towers from Kildare Town, 10 (counting three won as Kildare Town and one as St Patrick’s); Naas, 8; Moorefield (Newbridge), 6; Athy, 5; Kilcock, 5; Ellistown, 4 (counting 2 won as Mountrice); Johnstownbridge, 3; Caragh, 3; Monasterevin, 3; Maynooth, 2; and Allenwood, Ardclough, Ballymore, Celbridge, Curragh, Eadestown, Military College, Rathangan, Newbridge CYMS club St Conleth’s (on objection) and St Laurence's won one each. Raheens and Moorefield are the only Kildare sides to win a Leinster club title (in 1981 and 2006).
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