WPIAL Football Champions - Class 3A

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Year Winner Score Runner-Up Location
2024 Avonworth 17-0 Central Valley Acrisure Stadium (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
2023 Belle Vernon 26-0 Avonworth Acrisure Stadium (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
2022 Belle Vernon 24-7 Avonworth Acrisure Stadium (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
2021 Central Valley 52-15 North Catholic Heinz Field (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
2020 Central Valley 35-0 Elizabeth Forward North Allegheny HS (Wexford, Pa.)
2019 Central Valley 13-12 (OT) Aliquippa Heinz Field (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
2018 Aliquippa 42-19 Derry Heinz Field (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
2017 Quaker Valley 2-0 Aliquippa Heinz Field (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
2016 Beaver Falls 35-22 Aliquippa Heinz Field (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
2015 Thomas Jefferson 20-7 Central Valley Heinz Field (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
2014 Central Valley 35-28 West Allegheny Heinz Field (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
2013 West Allegheny 16-6 Central Valley Heinz Field (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
2012 West Allegheny 34-8 West Mifflin Heinz Field (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
2011 Montour 42-14 Knoch Heinz Field (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
2010 Central Valley 24-7 Montour Heinz Field (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
2009 West Allegheny 36-28 Hopewell Heinz Field (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
2008 Thomas Jefferson 34-14 Blackhawk Heinz Field (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
2007 Thomas Jefferson 34-0 Montour Heinz Field (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
2006 Thomas Jefferson 34-15 Blackhawk Heinz Field (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
2005 Franklin Regional 31-14 Thomas Jefferson Heinz Field (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
2004 Thomas Jefferson 20-0 West Mifflin Heinz Field (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
2003 Pine-Richland 21-7 Thomas Jefferson Heinz Field (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
2002 Hopewell 20-15 Pine-Richland Heinz Field (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
2001 West Allegheny 23-6 Hopewell Heinz Field (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
2000 West Allegheny 21-7 West Mifflin Three Rivers Stadium (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
1999 West Allegheny 37-12 Belle Vernon Three Rivers Stadium (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
1998 Moon 34-7 Blackhawk Three Rivers Stadium (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
1997 West Allegheny 51-24 Brownsville Three Rivers Stadium (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
1996 Blackhawk 24-6 Belle Vernon  
1995 Belle Vernon 22-6 Franklin Regional  
1994 McGuffey 12-6 Blackhawk  
1993 Blackhawk 28-0 McGuffey  
1992 Blackhawk 20-0 Knoch  
1991 Blackhawk 23-13 Valley  
1990 Seton LaSalle 30-23 Hopewell  
1989 Aliquippa 17-9 Seneca Valley  
1988 Aliquippa 36-7 Blackhawk  
1987 Aliquippa 26-14 New Castle  
1986 Mt. Pleasant 14-13 Kiski Area  
1985 Aliquippa 13-0 Ambridge  
1984 Aliquippa 20-15 Mt. Pleasant  
1983 Mt. Pleasant 16-14 Aliquippa  
1982 Steel Valley 10-0 Aliquippa  
1981 Beaver 12-7 Knoch  
1980 Thomas Jefferson 28-8 Aliquippa  
1979 NO CHAMPION – VACATED 3-0 Gateway  
1978 Penn Hills 7-0 Blackhawk  
1977 Butler *
Penn Hills *
7-7    
1976 Penn Hills 23-14 Butler  
1975 New Castle *
Upper St. Clair *
0-0    
1974 Gateway *
Upper St. Clair *
6-6    
1973 New Castle 3-0 Gateway  
1972 Gateway 20-0 Jeannette  
1971 Kiski Area 16-8 Thomas Jefferson  
1970 Mt. Lebanon 35-12 Kiski Area  
1969 Gateway 22-15 Altoona  
1968 Greater Latrobe 19-7 Kiski Area  
1967 New Castle 20-14 Mt. Lebanon  
1966 Mt. Lebanon 18-14 Hempfield Area  
1965 Uniontown 14-7 Butler  
1964 Aliquippa 7-0 Monongahela  
1963 West Mifflin North 12-6 Butler  
1962 Uniontown #
1961 Monessen 7-6 Wilkinsburg  
1960 Beaver Falls #
1959 Charleroi 13-12 Aliquippa  
1958 Johnstown 3-0 Clairton  
1957 Wilkinsburg 13-0 Clairton  
1956 Jeannette 16-13 Charleroi  
1955 Aliquippa 14-13 Mt. Lebanon  
1954 Clairton #
1953 Donora *
Har-Brack *
0-0    
1952 Aliquippa 13-12 Washington  
1951 Farrell 15-0 Munhall  
1950 Butler #
1949 New Castle 8-7 McKeesport  
1948 New Castle 43-14 Monongahela  
1947 New Kensington 28-0 Har-Brack  
1946 New Kensington #
1945 Donora 38-6 New Kensington  
1944 Donora 13-0 Ellwood City  
1943 Brownsville #
1942 New Castle 25-0 Aliquippa  
1941 Johnstown 7-0 Mt. Lebanon  
1940 Brownsville #
1939 Jeannette 6-0 Ambridge  
1938 McKeesport 38-20 Johnstown  
1937 North Braddock Scott #
1936 Charleroi #
1935 North Braddock Scott #
1934 New Castle #
1933 New Castle #
1932 Jeannette *
McKeesport *
New Castle *
     
1931 Clairton #
1930 Monessen 12-6 Redstone  
1929 Clairton #
1928 Beaver Falls #
1927 Greensburg #
1926 Washington 26-0 Wilkinsburg  
1925 Ellwood City #
1924 New Castle 10-6 Charleroi  
1923 Washington #      
1922 Wilkinsburg 7-6 Washington  
1921 Rochester *
Westinghouse *
0-0    
1920 Washington 14-7 Pittsburgh Fifth Avenue  
1919 Allegheny      
1918 NO CHAMPION - WORLD WAR I
1917 Johnstown *
Washington *
0-0    
1916 Wilkinsburg 27-0 Butler  
1915 Wilkinsburg 12-7 Pittsburgh Fifth Avenue  
1914 Wilkinsburg      

Notes: Schools listed with an asterisk (*) were WPIAL co-champions for that year … The 1979 WPIAL championship was vacated by Penn Hills for using an ineligible player … Schools listed with a pound sign (#) were declared WPIAL champions.