{"id":388744,"date":"2026-04-08T21:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T21:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/388744\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T21:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T21:47:09","slug":"all-ireland-sfc-explainer-how-the-new-football-format-will-play-out-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/388744\/","title":{"rendered":"All-Ireland SFC explainer: How the new football format will play out for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kerry's David Clifford and his son Ogie celebrate with the Sam Maguire cup after their side's\u00a0victory\u00a0in last year's All-Ireland SFC final against Donegal. Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/6ab96dc5-101f-4b11-9ead-503457151b7d.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Kerry&#8217;s David Clifford and his son Ogie celebrate with the Sam Maguire cup after their side&#8217;s\u00a0victory\u00a0in last year&#8217;s All-Ireland SFC final against Donegal. Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The provincial football championships sweep into action in all four provinces over the weekend, but once done and dusted in the middle of May, another new format for the All-Ireland series will be in play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Here\u2019s what the latest new format entails  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kerry&#8217;s David Clifford and his son Ogie celebrate with the Sam Maguire cup after their side&#8217;s\u00a0victory\u00a0in last year&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[165838,20965,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-388744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-all-ireland-senior-football-championship","tag-colm-keys","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388744","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=388744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}