All Ireland Champions Dublin Drawn In Group 2 Of The 2020 TG4 All Ireland Senior Championship
THE Ladies Gaelic Football Association have confirmed the groupings for the revamped 2020 TG4 All Ireland Senior Championship.
The 2020 All-Ireland series will be consist of two groups, with six teams in each, and the top two teams from each group will progress straight through to the All-Ireland semi-finals, following a minimum of five games.
Holders Dublin, who are aiming for a fourth successive TG4 All-Ireland Senior title, have been drawn in Group 2 alongside the 2020 Munster Champions, next year’s beaten Ulster and Connacht Finalists, Ulster’s fifth team, and a Munster semi-final loser.
With no Senior Leinster football Championship next year Dublin will go straight into the revamped All Ireland series.
That will see the reigning All Ireland champions at a distinct disadvantage as far as game time is concerned compared to every other team in the All Ireland series who will all have a number of games already under their belts competing in their respective provincial championships.
Group 1 will contain the 2020 Ulster and Connacht champions, the beaten Munster Finalists, a Munster semi-final loser, and the beaten Ulster semi-finalists.
The bottom team in each group will contest a relegation play-off, unless they are a provincial winner, and thereby exempt from relegation.
The Provincial Championships must be organised on a knock-out basis, with the winners placed accordingly in the All-Ireland series groups.
The 2020 TG4 All-Ireland Senior Championship will commence on Saturday, July 4, and culminate with the All-Ireland Final on Sunday, September 13.
The semi-finals have been scheduled for Sunday, August 23, with the top two teams in each group featuring.
2020 TG4 Senior All Ireland Championship Groups
Group 1
Ulster Winner
Connacht Winner
Munster Runner Up
Munster Loser SF1
Ulster Loser SF1
Ulster Loser SF2
Group 2
Dublin
Munster Winner
Ulster Runner Up
Connacht Runner Up
Ulster 5th Team
Munster Loser SF2
