Tyrone Junior Football Championship
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The Tyrone Junior Football Club Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the WJ Dolan Tyrone Junior Football Club Championship) is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association
Gaelic Athletic Association
The Gaelic Athletic Association is an amateur Irish and international cultural and sporting organisation focused primarily on promoting Gaelic games, which include the traditional Irish sports of hurling, camogie, Gaelic football, handball and rounders...

 club competition between the 18 Tyrone
Tyrone GAA
The Tyrone County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association or Tyrone GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Tyrone. The county board is also responsible for the Tyrone inter-county teams....

 clubs competing in Division 3 of the Tyrone All-County Football league.

The winners of the Tyrone Championship qualify to represent their county in the Ulster Junior Club Football Championship
Ulster Junior Club Football Championship
The Ulster Junior Club Football Championship is an annual Gaelic football tournament played between the hundreds of junior football clubs in Ulster. There are nine county championships between the nine counties of Ulster. The nine winners go on to play each other in the Ulster Club Championship in...

 and in turn, go on to the All-Ireland Junior Club Football Championship
All-Ireland Junior Club Football Championship
The All-Ireland Junior Club Football Championship is a Gaelic football competition started up in 2004 to be played by the winners of the Junior Club Championship from each County. Prior to that a number of unofficial competitions were held...

. They also gain promotion to Division 2 of the Tyrone All-County Football league for the following season, regardless of their final standing in the Division 3 league that year. Therefore as the winners compete in the Tyrone Intermediate Football Championship
Tyrone Intermediate Football Championship
The Tyrone Intermediate Football Club Championship is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association club competition between the 16 Tyrone clubs competing in Division 2 of the Tyrone All-County Football league.The winners of the Tyrone Championship qualify to represent their county in the Ulster...

 the following year, the holders do not defend their title.

The winners of the 2008 Tyrone Junior Football Club Championship were Augher St. Macartan's
Augher St. Macartan's
Augher St. Macartan's is a Gaelic Athletic Association club. The club is based in Augher, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.The club concentrates on Gaelic football, a Ladies Gaelic football club is also in existence in Augher called St...

 who defeated their neighbours Aghaloo O'Neills
Aghaloo O'Neills
Aghaloo O'Neills is a Gaelic Athletic Association club. The club is based in Aughnacloy and Caledon which encompasses the parish after which the club is named, Aghaloo, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland....

 1-09 to 0-09 at Healy Park
Healy Park
Healy Park is a Gaelic Athletic Association stadium in Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is the second largest stadium in Northern Ireland with a modern capacity of approximately 18,500. It is the home of Omagh St. Enda's and the Tyrone Gaelic football teams. It is located on the Gortin...

, Omagh.

History

The tournament was first held in 1904 with Coalisland the first champions defeating Killyclogher
Killyclogher St. Mary's
Killyclogher St. Mary's is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in the village of Killyclogher in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. After many years of underage success, the club finally made the Senior Championship breakthrough in 2003. They have appeared in 3 Senior County finals in the last...

in the final.
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