[2][3] The competition's most successful club is Fairview Rangers of the Limerick & District League who have been winners nine times.

Brideville and Cobh Ramblers also became the first of several future League of Ireland members to feature in an FAI Junior Cup final.

Drogheda United were finalists on four occasions but never winners while Athlone Town won the cup twice during the 1930s after dropping out of the League of Ireland.

Irish TV replaced TG4 as free-to-air broadcaster in 2015, and all three channels showed coverage in 2016, again from the quarter-finals stage.

In a major change, the 2016–17 season saw coverage begin with the third round in October, running on the newly-renamed eir Sport, IrishTV until its closure in March 2017, and TG4 from the quarter-finals stage.