THE DRAW FOR the opening round of the All-Ireland senior football championship will take place on Monday afternoon, with the 16 Sam Maguire teams set to face off in a revamped format this summer.<\/p>\n
The round-robin structure has been replaced by a format similar to the old \u2018backdoor\u2019 championship, where teams who lose early in the championship will be afforded a second chance ahead of the straight knockout matches.<\/p>\n
The draw for Round 1 \u2013 which takes place at 1pm on Monday on GAA+ \u2013 will see the eight provincial finalists drawn against the eight next-best teams based on league ranking.<\/p>\n
Provincial Finalists (Bowl 1): Galway, Roscommon, Dublin, Westmeath, Cork, Kerry, Armagh, Monaghan<\/p>\n
League Ranking (Bowl 2): Donegal, Mayo, Meath, Louth, Derry, Tyrone, Cavan, Kildare<\/p>\n
The Round 1 draw is an open draw, and provincial finalists will have home advantage. The Munster and Connacht finalists are set to play their opening match in the All-Ireland series on 23\/24 May, with the Ulster and Leinster finalists playing on the weekend of 30\/31 May.<\/p>\n
The eight winners from Round 1 will then go into Round 2A, where they will play off against each other for a place in the All-Ireland quarter-finals.<\/p>\n
The eight losers from Round 1 will have a second chance to keep their championship alive in Round 2B.<\/p>\n
Lose again and they\u2019re out \u2013 but win and they\u2019ll progress to a win-or-bust Round 3, where they\u2019ll play the four losers from Round 2A for the remaining places in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE DRAW FOR the opening round of the All-Ireland senior football championship will take place on Monday afternoon,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4365,3970,4183,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-430760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-gaelic-football","tag-explainer","tag-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430760","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=430760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}