The 2025 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship will be the 138th edition of the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county Gaelic football tournament. Thirty-one of the thirty-two Irish counties took part – Kilkenny did not compete, while London and New York completed the lineup with rescheduled fixtures postponed during Covid-19 in 2020.
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Armagh will be the defending champions having won the 2024 competition.[1] Down will enter the competition as Tailteann Cup winners.[2]
Format
editProvincial Championships
editConnacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster each organise a provincial championship. All provincial matches are knock-out.
In the Connacht championship London and New York fixtures which were last played in 2015 but postponed in 2020 during Covid-19 are rescheduled meaning that it's Roscommon vs London which will be the 50th anniversary of London in the Connacht championship and Galway vs New York which will be the 100th anniversary of the first time that Galway first won the All Ireland title. Those fixtures are like in rotation at the Quarter-final stage of every 5 years. Mayo, Sligo and Leitrim will be in the open draw as usual.
While Leinster sees Dublin, Louth, Kildare and Offaly kept apart until the quarter-finals.
The Munster championship will be a open draw with Kerry a bye team to the semi-finals.
The Ulster championship will feature an open draw, with the caveat that no team from the preliminary round in 2024 can be placed in that round in 2025.
The draw for the All-Ireland senior football championship will take place on October, 12 2024.
Group stage format
editSixteen teams progress to the All-Ireland Championship round-robin:
- The four provincial champions
- The four beaten provincial finalists
- The 2024 Tailteann Cup winners (Down)
- The seven next-ranked teams, based on final position in the 2025 National Football League
- Position is based on standing after promotion and relegation are applied and after finals are played; therefore, the top two teams in Division 2 outrank the bottom two teams in Division 1, and if the 2nd placed team in Division 2 wins the final, they are ranked above the 1st-place finishers who lost the final.
- If Down reaches the Ulster final, an 8th team will be chosen based on league position.
The other 17 county teams compete in the 2025 Tailteann Cup.
In the All-Ireland Championship round-robin, 16 teams are drawn into four groups of four teams. Each team plays the other in its group once, earning 2 points for a win and 1 for a draw. Each team plays one home, one away, and one neutral fixture.
The top three in each group advance to the knockout stages, first-place teams to the All-Ireland quarter-finals, and second and third-placed teams to the preliminary quarter-finals.[3]
Teams
editGeneral Information
editThirty-three counties competed in the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship: seven teams in the Connacht Senior Football Championship, eleven teams in the Leinster Senior Football Championship, six teams in the Munster Senior Football Championship and nine teams in the Ulster Senior Football Championship.
Personnel and kits
editProvincial championships
editConnacht Senior Football Championship
editQuarter-finals
editIn rotation fixtures in return. Last played in 2015 but were both postponed in 2020 because of Covid-19.
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A fixture that will mark the 100th anniversary of Galway's first All Ireland title.
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A fixture that will mark 50th anniversary of London in the Connacht championship.
3rd Quarter final will be Team C if Mayo vs Sligo in Castlebar or if Mayo vs Leitrim in Carrick-on-Shannon or Sligo vs Leitrim in Sligo.
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Semi-finals
editThe draw for the Semi-finals winners of Galway/New York, Roscommon/London will become teams A and B. Team C the other open draw Quarter-final 2 teams of Mayo, Sligo & Leitrim. Team D will be the bye team 1 team of Mayo, Sligo & Leitrim in the semi-finals.
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Quarter-finals
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Team allocation and draw
editTeam allocation
editSeven places in the All-Ireland group stage are allocated based on performance in the 2025 National Football League, as detailed below.
Group stage draw
editNumber in brackets indicates ranking in the 2025 NFL.
Pot 1
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editPot 3
editPot 4
editAll-Ireland group stage
editGroup 1
editRound 1
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editRound 3
editGroup 2
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editGroup 3
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editRound 3
editAll-Ireland knockout stage
editKnockout draws
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References
edit- ^ "Armagh: All-Ireland winners to be welcomed home by fans". BBC News. 29 July 2024. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
- ^ "Down beat Laois in hard fought Tailteann Cup final". The Irish News. 13 July 2024. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
- ^ "GAA votes to restructure All-Ireland Football Championship: 'Green proposal' receives significant majority". Sky Sports.
- ^ "Forker handed Armagh captaincy ahead of Louth visit". hoganstand.com. 26 January 2024.