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Armagh SFC
Season	2016
Champions	Maghery ; (1st S.F.C. Title)
Relegated	Forkhill (7th in the IFL) ; Grange (8th in the IFL)
Ulster SCFC	Maghery
Winning Captain	??? Ben Crealy=Man Of The Match
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The 2016 Armagh Senior Football Championship is the 116th official edition of the Armagh GAA's premier club Gaelic football tournament for senior club in County Armagh. The tournament consists of 16 teams with the winner going on to represent Armagh in the Ulster Senior Club Football Championship. The championship has a back-door format for the first two rounds before proceeding to a knock-out format. Generally, any team to lose two matches will be knocked out of the championship.

Crossmaglen Rangers are the defending champions after they defeated Armagh Harps 2-22 to 0-10 in the 2015 final, however they were knocked out at the semi-final stage this season by close rivals St. Patrick's Cullyhanna. This was only Crossmaglen's second loss in 20 years of Armagh Senior championship football.

This was Clann Éireann, Madden and Grange's return to the senior grade.

Forkhill and Grange were relegated to the I.F.C. for 2017 after finishing 7th and 8th respectively in this year's Senior 'B' Football League. They will be replaced next year by Whitecross and Culloville Blues after they claimed the 2016 I.F.C. and I.A.F.L. titles respectively.

On 16 October 2016, Maghery Sean MacDermott's claimed their first ever S.F.C. title when defeating St. Patrick's Cullyhanna in the Athletic Grounds on a score line of 1-13 to 0-13.

Promoted to SFC from IFC in 2015

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Clann Éireann – (IFC & IFL Champions)
Madden – (2nd in IFL)
Grange – (3rd in IFL)

Relegated from SFC to IFC in 2015

Killeavy – (16th SFL)
Carrickcruppen – (15th SFL)
St. Paul's – (14th SFL)

Group stage

Round 1

All 16 teams play in this round. The 8 winners progress to Round 2A while the 8 losers progress to Round 2B.

Maghery 1-15 0-9 Annaghmore, Athletic Grounds, 19/8/2016
Crossmaglen Rangers 2-13 1-10 Dromintee, Cullyhanna, 21/8/2016
Clann Éireann 3-15 3-9 Madden, Pearse Óg Park, 21/8/2016
Sarsfields 3-11 1-16 Forkhill, Ballymacnab, 21/8/2016
Tír na nÓg 1-14 0-15 Granemore, Maghery, 21/8/2016
Ballymacnab 1-15 0-16 Armagh Harps, Athletic Grounds, 26/8/2016
Cullyhanna 2-20 1-5 Pearse Óg, Ballymavnab, 28/8/2016
Wolfe Tones 3-15 2-16 Grange, Maghery, 28/8/2016

Round 2

Round 2A

The 8 winners from Round 1 enter this round. The 4 winners enter the draw for the quarter-finals while the 4 losers play in Round 3.

Clann Éireann 4-11 0-13 Ballymacnab, Athletic Grounds, 9/9/2016
Maghery 0-12 0-7 Wolfe Tones, Clann Éireann Park, 10/9/2016
Crossmaglen Rangers 6-20 0-8 Tír na nÓg, Athletic Grounds, 11/9/2016
Cullyhanna 1-15 1-9 Sarsfields, Athletic Grounds, 11/9/2016

Round 2B

The 8 losers from Round 1 enter this round. The 4 winners advance to Round 3 while the 4 losers exit the Championship.

Armagh Harps 2-16 0-9 Grange, Athletic Grounds, 9/9/2016
Dromintee 0-15 0-11 Annaghmore, Abbey Park, 10/9/2016
Pearse Óg 3-16 3-9 Madden, Ballymacnab, 10/9/2016
Forkhill 4-8 0-9 Granemore, Silverbridge, 11/9/2016

Round 3

The 4 losers from Round 2A play the 4 winners from Round 2B. The 4 winners enter the draw for the quarter-finals.

Armagh Harps 3-17 3-14 Sarsfields, Athletic Grounds, 16/9/2016
Ballymacnab 2-18 1-8 Pearse Óg, Athletic Grounds, 16/9/2016
Dromintee 1-16 1-6 Tír na nÓg, Athletic Grounds, 19/9/2016
Wolfe Tones 1-9 0-7 Forkhill, Athletic Grounds, 19/9/2016

Knock-Out Stage

Last Eight Draw

Quarter-Finals

Semi-Finals

Final

Cullyhanna

1-13

Wolfe Tones

1-7

Cullyhanna

1-15

Crossmaglen Rangers

1-16

Crossmaglen Rangers

0-17

Armagh Harps

1-13

Cullyhanna

0-13

Maghery

1-15

Maghery

1-13

Dromintee

2-5

Maghery

2-17

Clann Eireann

0-11

Clann Eireann

1-9

Ballymacnab

0-10

Quarter-finals

The four winners from Round 2A play the four winners from Round 3. The 4 winners advance to the semi-finals.

Clann Éireann 0-11, 0-10 Ballymacnab, Ballycrummy Road, 24/9/2016
Crossmaglen Rangers 1-16, 1-13 Armagh Harps, Keady, 25/9/2016
Maghery 1-15, 2-5 Dromintee, Athletic Grounds, 25/9/2016
Cullyhanna 1-13, 1-7 Wolfe Tones, Ballymacnab, 25/9/2016

Semi-finals

Maghery 2-17, 1-9 Clann Éireann, Athletic Grounds, 30/9/2016 Report
Cullyhanna 1-15, 0-17 Crossmaglen Rangers, Athletic Grounds, 2/10/2016 Report

Final

16 October 2016

16:00

Final

Maghery	1-13 – 0-13	Cullyhanna
Aidan Forker 0-4 (0-2f), Ciaran Higgins 1-0, Stefan Forker 0-2 (0-1f), Gerard Campbell, Steven Fox, Conor Mackle,Ronan Lappin, Stephen Cusack, David Lavery, Seamus Forker 0-1 each	Report	Aidan Nugent 0-9 (0-6f), Barry McConville, Shea Hoey, Mal Mackin, Pearse Casey 0-1 each

Athletic Grounds

Attendance: 6,390

Referee: Padraig Hughes (Crossmaglen)