The Dr Lagan Cup (also called the Ulster Football League or the Four Counties League, Five Counties League), was an inter-county Gaelic football competition in the province of Ulster. The competition was discontinued in 1967. The Lagan Cup was the trophy for a Senior Football League, which at the time was limited to seven Ulster counties, unlike the Dr McKenna Cup, which is a knockout competition that includes all nine of Ulster's counties; and did not usually take part.
It was first held in 1937, and the trophy was donated by Dr. Felix Lagan of Omagh, a nationalist and promoter of Gaelic games.https://clgchillchartha.ie/index.php/claracha-na-gcluichi-programmes/donegal-gaa-programmes-1930-1969 The competition functioned in several years as the Northern Division of the National Football League. It was typically played as a round-robin with either a single game or two games between each team, and no final. It was last played in 1967; the original trophy is kept at the Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich Memorial Library and Archive in Armagh.https://www.ofiaich.ie/
Frankie Donnelly holds the record for the highest individual scoring tally in an inter-county match, with 4-11 for Tyrone against Fermanagh in the 1957 Dr Lagan Cup.
Top winners # Team Wins Years won1 6 1949, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964 61936–37, 1937, 1952, 1965, 1966, 1967 3 5 1945, 1947, 1950, 1953, 1959 4 41941, 1944, 1946, 1948 5 3 1943, 1957, 1958 3 1954, 1955, 1956 7 1 1951
See also Dr McKenna Cup
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