The Munster Council have voted overwhelmingly to postpone the new league seeding system for their senior football championship until 2027.<\/p>\n
At an online meeting on Monday night, the proposal to park their earlier decision in late July to award separate semi-final byes to the top two league finishers was passed, 15 votes to two.<\/p>\n
It means the 2026 Munster SFC draw set to take place on Thursday, November 27 will follow the pre-existing seeding mechanism whereby the previous year\u2019s finalists are drawn in the semi-finals but there is no guarantee that they won\u2019t face each other.<\/p>\n
Following further consultation with counties and players, the executive proposed that the league seeding be delayed. It means Clare and Limerick have an opportunity to earn a semi-final bye providing they are promoted from Division 3 next spring and Cork are relegated from Division 2.<\/p>\n
Champions Kerry and runners-up Clare will be seeded in the last four for the third year in a row while Cork, Limerick, Tipperary and Waterford fill the quarter-final slots. Those games are scheduled for April 11, two weeks after the National Football League finals, with the semi-finals down for April 25. The final is fixed for the weekend of May 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Munster Council have voted overwhelmingly to postpone the new league seeding system for their senior football championship…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4365,72371,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-135338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-gaelic-football","tag-munster-gaa","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}