The Kerry Senior Football championship has a back-door format for the first two rounds before proceeding to a knock-out format, and generally, any teams to lose two matches will be knocked out of the championship but the winner will represent Kerry in the Munster Senior Club Football Championship and will have a chance to win the O'Connor Cup.
Initially played a knock-out competition, the championship currently uses a double elimination format whereby each team is guaranteed at least two games. 
