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Young Irelands

Philadelphia, USA · USGAA Philadelphia Division

Founded1985

Parent BoardUSGAA · Philadelphia Division

North American Senior FootballChampions 2025

Recent Philadelphia Senior Titles2022 · 2023

Young Irelands are a Gaelic football club in Philadelphia and, as of August 2025, the reigning senior champions of the United States GAA. They have been part of the city’s Irish sporting life since 1985 and have reached four national senior finals since 2019.

Club Story

Delaware County Roots and a Tyrone Connection

The club dates from 1985. In 2008 Hogan Stand reported Young Irelanders players running a Gaelic football session for kids from the Delco Harps youth programme at their training base, Drexel Hill Middle School in Delaware County.

Young Irelands have long drawn players from Ireland. One strong line runs to Derrytresk in Co. Tyrone. Anthony Daly came over from Derrytresk in 1996 for a three-month stint as a sanctioned player, stayed, and has since moved from the team into coaching and managing in the Philadelphia GAA scene. He told DELCO.Today in 2023 that his home club and Young Irelands have had a relationship for years.

Championship Era

Knocking on the Door, Then Kicking It In

Donegal Philadelphia are the old rivals. On 7 August 2022, at the division’s grounds in Limerick, Pennsylvania, Young Irelands edged Donegal 3-16 to 1-18 in the senior final, and the Philadelphia GAA board named them senior champions again in 2023, when they also took the junior men’s football title.

National finals were a tougher nut. Young Irelands lost the North American senior football final in 2019, as Young Irelanders, to Donegal Boston on a score of 3-22 to 5-12, then were beaten again in 2022 by Pádraig Pearses of Chicago and in 2023 by Chicago’s Wolfe Tones.

The breakthrough came on home soil. The 2025 USGAA Finals were held in Malvern, Pennsylvania, from 15 to 17 August. Young Irelands beat Ulster of San Francisco in the semi-final, then Galway Boston 3-16 to 3-14 in the final, the first North American senior football title for a Philadelphia club since Donegal in 2018. Their second string, Young Irelands B, made it a double by winning the national Junior A football title the same weekend.

Right Now

2026: Donegal Philly Bite Back

The defence of the national crown ended before it reached Boston. Donegal Philadelphia beat Young Irelands in the 2026 regional final, their first such win since 2018, and went on to the USGAA Finals at the Irish Cultural Centre in Canton in August. Galway Boston, the side Young Irelands beat in 2025, won the senior title there.

Kits & Identity

The Young Irelands Jersey

We have not been able to confirm the club’s colours or crest from an official Young Irelands or Philadelphia GAA source, so we have not listed them here rather than guess. The club name echoes the Young Ireland movement of the 1840s, a name shared by GAA clubs in Kilkenny, Louth and Limerick.

This FanFile covers Young Irelands as a club rather than one particular jersey. Check the crest, sponsor, manufacturer label and product code on your own shirt to identify its specific season and edition.

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