Fixtures

Leinster Hurling 04/27 17:00 - Carlow vs Dublin View

Results

Leinster Hurling 04/21 13:00 - Galway v Carlow View
Leinster Football 04/07 13:30 - Wexford v Carlow View
NHL Division 2 03/31 14:00 - Carlow v Laois View
NFL Division 4 03/24 13:00 - Carlow v London View
NFL Division 4 03/16 15:00 - Longford v Carlow View
NHL Division 2 03/10 13:00 - Carlow v Down View
NFL Division 4 03/02 19:00 - Carlow v Wexford View
NFL Division 4 02/25 14:00 - Carlow v Leitrim View
NFL Division 4 02/17 18:00 - Laois v Carlow View
NFL Division 4 02/03 18:00 - Carlow v Waterford View
NFL Division 4 01/27 18:00 - Tipperary v Carlow View
Tailteann Cup Football 06/18 12:00 - Antrim v Carlow View

The Carlow county football team ( KAR-loh) represents Carlow in men's Gaelic football and is governed by Carlow GAA, the county board of the Gaelic Athletic Association. The team competes in the three major annual inter-county competitions; the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, the Leinster Senior Football Championship and the National Football League.

Carlow's home ground is Dr Cullen Park, Carlow. The team's manager is Niall Carew.

The team last won the Leinster Senior Championship in 1944, but has never won the All-Ireland Senior Championship or the National League.

History

Carlow team of 1944

Carlow have claimed very few honours at senior level. The team won a Leinster Senior Football Championship (SFC) in 1944. The final was played in Athy due to the war and Carlow defeated Dublin by a scoreline of 2–6 to 1–6. Carlow also lost Leinster SFC finals in 1941 and 1942 to the same opposition. Kerry fisherman-publican Paddy Bawn Brosnan kept Carlow from reaching an All-Ireland SFC final in 1944. His second-half goal put Carlow out of the All-Ireland semi-final by a scoreline of 3–3 to 0–10.

Ten years later Carlow reached the National League final with a famous 1–10 to 1–7 win against Armagh, but were well beaten by Mayo in the final.

Carlow won the 1994 All-Ireland B Senior Football Championship, and an O'Byrne Cup in 2002. The team defeated Wicklow by a scoreline of 2–10 to 0–8.

Other significant performances include reaching the Leinster Minor Football Championship final in 2007, when the team lost to Laois. The Carlow Vocational Schools team won the VEC All Ireland Championship in 1973, while Carlow CBS won an All-Ireland B title at Croke Park in 2015. An under-21 team came within a point of defeating Dublin in 1984.

In the 1980–81 National League Carlow once fielded a one-club selection so that Éire Óg could prepare for their first Leinster Club final. Tommy Dwyer, at 6'7, was one of the tallest midfielders in GAA history.

Paul Bealin spent a year as manager.

In late 2012, Anthony Rainbow was appointed manager of the senior county football team.

Carlow played Laois in a first round qualifier in 2013 — the first Friday night game in the history of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship.

Turlough O'Brien managed Carlow between 2014 and 2020. In the 2018 National Football League, O'Brien led the team out of Division 4. This was their first promotion in more than three decades. In the 2018 Leinster Senior Football Championship, he led Carlow to a quarter-final victory against Kildare at O'Connor Park. He resigned in June 2020.

Also in 2018, Paul Broderick was nominated for an All Star, the first Carlow player to receive a nomination since Colm Hayden in 1994, which was the year Carlow won the All-Ireland Senior B Football Championship.

In August 2020, Niall Carew replaced O'Brien as manager.