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Ladies' Gaelic Football is the most prominent amateur team sport for women in Ireland . The game is very similar to the male form of Gaelic Football , where two teams of 15 players kick or punch a round ball towards goals at either end of a grass pitch. There are two main competitions in this sport; the National League which is staged during the winter-spring months and is used as a warm-up to the All-Ireland Championship which is played during the summer. The All-Ireland Final is played on the last Sunday in September or the first Sunday in October in Croke Park , Dublin , where the winners receive the Brendan Martin Cup . These National League and Championship are organised by the Ladies' Gaelic Football Association (Cumann Peil Gael na mBan). The organisation was founded on July 18 , 1974 in Hayes' Hotel, Thurles , County Tipperary , almost 90 years since the Gaelic Athletic Association was founded in the same hotel. Eight counties: Roscommon, Laois, Offaly, Galway, Kerry, Cork, Waterford and Tipperary all participated in the inaugural set of games. Kerry are the most successful team in the Ladies' Championship. They have won 11 All-Ireland titles, 9 of which were won in a row between 1982 and 1990 . Cork are the current All-Ireland champions RULE DIFFERENCES The main rule differences when compared to the men's game are:
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