Gaelic football competition
2025 All-Ireland Senior Football ChampionshipDates 5 April- 27 July 2025 Teams 31
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.
Armagh will be the defending champions having won the 2024 competition .[ 1] Down will enter the competition as Tailteann Cup winners.[ 2]
The draws for the championship took place on 12 October 2024.
Provincial Championships
Connacht , Leinster , Munster and Ulster each organise a provincial championship. All provincial matches are knock-out.
Sixteen 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
Thirty-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
Provincial championships
Quarter-finals
In rotation fixtures in return. Last played in 2015 but were both postponed in 2020 because of Covid-19 .
Semi-finals
Final
Preliminary round
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final
Preliminary round
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final
Team allocation and draw
Team allocation
Seven places in the All-Ireland group stage are allocated based on performance in the 2025 National Football League , as detailed below.
Group stage draw
Number in brackets indicates ranking in the 2025 NFL .
Pot 1
Pot 2
Pot 3
Pot 4
All-Ireland group stage
Group 1
Round 1
Round 2
Round 3
Group 2
Round 1
Round 2
Round 3
Group 3
Round 1
Round 2
Round 3
All-Ireland knockout stage
Knockout draws
Preliminary Quarter-Finals
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21-22 June 2025 Preliminary Quarter-final
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21-22 June 2025 Preliminary Quarter-final
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21-22 June 2025 Preliminary Quarter-final
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Quarter-Finals
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28-29 June 2025 Quarter-final
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28-29 June 2025 Quarter-final
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28-29 June 2025 Quarter-final
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28-29 June 2025 Quarter-final
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Semi-finals
Final
Stadia and locations
County
Location
Province
Stadium
Capacity
Antrim
Belfast
Ulster
Corrigan Park
3,700
Armagh
Armagh
Ulster
Athletic Grounds
18,500
Carlow
Carlow
Leinster
Dr Cullen Park
21,000
Cavan
Cavan
Ulster
Breffni Park
25,030
Clare
Ennis
Munster
Cusack Park
19,000
Cork
Cork
Munster
Páirc Uí Chaoimh
45,000
Derry
Derry
Ulster
Celtic Park
18,500
Donegal
Ballybofey
Ulster
MacCumhaill Park
18,000
Down
Newry
Ulster
Páirc Esler
20,000
Dublin
Dublin
Leinster
Croke Park
82,300
Fermanagh
Enniskillen
Ulster
Brewster Park
20,000
Galway
Galway
Connacht
Pearse Stadium
26,197
Kerry
Killarney
Munster
Fitzgerald Stadium
38,000
Kildare [ a] Newbridge
Leinster
Manguard Park
1,200
Laois
Portlaoise
Leinster
O'Moore Park
22,000
Leitrim
Carrick-on-Shannon
Connacht
Páirc Seán Mac Diarmada
9,331
Limerick
Limerick
Munster
Gaelic Grounds
44,023
London
South Ruislip
Britain
McGovern Park
3,000
Longford
Longford
Leinster
Pearse Park
10,000
Louth
Drogheda
Leinster
Drogheda Park
3,500
Mayo
Castlebar
Connacht
MacHale Park
25,369
Meath
Navan
Leinster
Páirc Tailteann
11,000
Monaghan
Clones
Ulster
St Tiernach's Park
29,000
New York
Bronx
North America
Gaelic Park
2,000
Offaly
Tullamore
Leinster
O'Connor Park
18,000
Roscommon
Roscommon
Connacht
Dr Hyde Park
18,890
Sligo
Sligo
Connacht
Markievicz Park
18,558
Tipperary
Thurles
Munster
Semple Stadium
45,690
Tyrone
Omagh
Ulster
Healy Park
17,636
Waterford
Waterford
Munster
Fraher Field
15,000
Westmeath
Mullingar
Leinster
Cusack Park
11,000
Wexford
Wexford
Leinster
Chadwicks Wexford Park
18,000
Wicklow
Aughrim
Leinster
Aughrim County Ground
7,000
Championship statistics
Top scorers
Overall
Rank
Player
County
Tally
Total
Matches
Average
In a single game
Rank
Player
County
Tally
Total
Opposition
Miscellaneous
Due to Covid-19 in 2020 it has taken extra 5 years for Galway to play New York and Roscommon having a game against London . Those fixtures will celebrate 50 years of London in the Connacht championship and 100 years of Galway's first All Ireland title in 1925.
See also
Notes
References
External links
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Beginning of
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Associated competitions Statistics and awards
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