How the 2025 provincial football championship draws will work
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The draws for the 2025 provincial football championships will be held this Saturday on RTÉ Radio 1 at 4pm.
In Munster, 2024 finalists Clare and Kerry go straight into the semi-finals. There will be a draw featuring Cork, Limerick, Tipperary and Waterford to determine the two quarter-final ties, and there will be an open draw for the semi-finals.
In the Connacht quarter-finals, Galway will travel to face New York at Gaelic Park while London will host Roscommon in Ruislip. There will a draw between Leitrim, Sligo and Mayo to determine the other quarter-final. The team not drawn goes straight through to the semi-finals, the make up of which will be decided by an open draw.
In Leinster, Dublin, Kildare, Louth and Offaly - the four semi-finalists from 2024 - receive byes to the quarter-finals. A draw featuring Wicklow, Westmeath, Laois, Carlow, Longford, Wexford, and Meath will be made to decide the three first round pairings. The team not drawn will also get a bye the the quarter-final stage. The three first round winners and the county that receives the bye will be drawn against the four teams who reached last year's semi-finals in the last eight.
In Ulster, Armagh, Antrim, Monaghan, and Cavan have all played in preliminary round fixtures in last two seasons so they will not be involved at that stage in 2025. Two from Tyrone, Derry, Down, Donegal, and Fermanagh will feature in the preliminary round. The winner of the preliminary round fixture will join the remaining seven counties in the quarter-final stage.
Hosted by Joanne Cantwell, the draws will be conducted by Vincent Neary (Connacht President), Martin Byrne (Leinster Vice-Chairperson), Ger Ryan (Munster Chairperson) and Ciarán McLaughlin (Ulster President).