20 Teams, 2 Divisions, 1 National League

[Elfman]

There's something I don't understand about this. Fair play to them, they appear to have a very good Youth set-up etc, but then they say:
"McNally believes it is important that Klub Kildare has a senior side as it will give their young players a pathway to senior football."
(By "senior" football may I assume he means adult football i.e. age rather than level?)

Anyhow, what has been stopping them from establishing their own adult team(s), entering the local Kildare & District League (or whatever), then working their way up to be able to compete in the LSL?

Good question and I agree it's confusing but no, I believe he's reffering to both adult and senior level i.e. a nationwide team.

From my view, and I'm happy to defer to Burnsie's more extensive knowledge on this, what is stopping them is the underage structure. Klub Kildare are one of the "created county" clubs that gave a pathway to the national level for underage players.

If their senior men's team was to play anywhere other than the LOI, I'm sure they'd be a lot of junior and intermediate clubs questioning why their underage age teams can't play at a national level too.

[Elfman]

One drawback is they wouldn't be able to call upon players from their loi underage teams to play for the Senior team without a transfer, while other clubs can draw from their U18 sides seamlessly.

Interesting admin quirk, I wasn't aware of this myself. Where did you come across this Shearer - did it affect a Limerick team?

[Shearer]

Interesting admin quirk, I wasn't aware of this myself. Where did you come across this Shearer - did it affect a Limerick team?

If you had an underage loi team and a Leinster Senior League team they would be under two different leagues with different windows.

Open to correction.

[culloty82]

That was part of the reason why the Kerry Academy sides had to incorporate themselves separately from the KDL even before the Kerry FC adult team was formed, the more pressing element being the legal necessity of keeping the boards of both entities separate, even when some individuals would still serve on both.

[nr637]

Assuming your suggestions are close to the mark, where might they draw the line between a 10 x team Northern Division and a 10 x team Southern Division?

P.S. Your second reference to Kildare - assume you meant some other county?

Looking at the potential list of teams that have been mentioned through various social media outlets and are now part of the FAI's process to accept 20 teams.

I have created a possible location of these teams,

Leinster
Dublin - 6 Clubs
Kildare - 1 Club
Carlow/Kilkenny - 1 Club
Meath - 1 Club

Munster
Cork - 2 Clubs
Limerick - 2 Clubs
Tipperary - 2 Clubs
Waterford - 1 Club

Connaught
Galway - 2 Clubs
Mayo - 1 Club

Ulster
Donegal - 1 Club

Nice 1 m8.