2017 Fitzgibbon Cup


The 2017 independent.ie Fitzgibbon Cup was the 101st staging of the Fitzgibbon Cup since its establishment in 1912. The semi-finals and final were hosted by NUI Galway on 24 and 25 February 2017. Mary I retained the title after a 3–24 to 1–19 win against IT Carlow in the final.

Format

Group stage
Sixteen institutes of higher education compete in groups of four. Each team in a group plays all the other teams in the group once. Two points are awarded for a win and one for a draw.
Knockout stage
The four group winners play the four group runners-up in the quarter-finals. The semi-finals and final are played over a single weekend, usually the last Friday and Saturday in February.

Knockout stage

Quarter-finals

Group winners had home advantage for the quarter-finals.

Awards

Team of the Year
  1. Enda Rowland
  2. David Sweeney
  3. Damien Healy
  4. Dwayne Palmer
  5. Conor Twomey
  6. Ronan Maher
  7. Willie Connors
  8. Stephen Cahill
  9. Michael Breen
  10. Darragh O'Donovan
  11. Michael O'Neill
  12. Cian Lynch
  13. Aaron Gillane
  14. Stephen Maher
  15. John Hetherton