2017 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship
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| Championship details | |
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| Dates | April – 17 September 2017 |
| Teams | 31 |
| All-Ireland Champions | |
| Winning team | Kerry (15th win) |
| Captain | David Clifford |
| Manager | Peter Keane |
| All-Ireland Finalists | |
| Losing team | Derry |
| Captain | Padraig McGrogan |
| Manager | Damian McErlain |
| Provincial Champions | |
| Munster | Kerry |
| Leinster | Dublin |
| Ulster | Derry |
| Connacht | Galway |
| Championship statistics | |
| Player of the Year | David Clifford |
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The 2017 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship was the GAA's premier inter-county gaelic football competition for under 18's. Thirty one county teams from Ireland competed (Kilkenny did not participate).
2017 was the final year of this competition with an under 18 age limit – an under 17 championship with a new format replaced it after a vote at the GAA congress on 26 February 2016.
The winners received the Tom Markham Cup.
Kerry won their fourth minor title in a row, defeating Derry in the final on 17 September 2017 by 6-17 to 1-08. This was the first time that any county had won four minor titles in a row.
Thirty one teams contested the championship as Kilkenny withdrew after competing in 2016. New York and London did not participate in this competition.
Provincial Championships
Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster organised four provincial championships. Each province determined the format for deciding their champions and it could have been a league, group, knock-out, double-elimination, etc. or a combination of these. The format for the 2017 championships are explained in the sections below.
All-Ireland
The four provincial winners play the four provincial runners-up in the All-Ireland quarter finals. Two semi-finals and a final follow. The final is normally played before the All-Ireland senior final on the third Sunday in September. All these matches are knock-out.
All five Connacht counties competed in a straight knock-out format.
Preliminary Round
The eleven participating Leinster teams competed in six matches in the preliminary round of the main draw, with (Offaly) playing two matches due to the odd number of teams.
Losers section
The six beaten teams entered the losers' section and played four play-off matches. Two teams then re-entered the main draw at the quarter-final stage. From the quarter-finals all matches were played under a straight knock-out format.
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