2025 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship


The 2025 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 139th edition of the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county Gaelic football tournament. Thirty-one of the thirty-two Irish counties took part. Kilkenny did not compete, but took part in the All-Ireland Junior Championship, while London and New York completed the lineup by entering the Connacht SFC.
Armagh the defending champion, would have been assured of a place in the All-Ireland round robin phase by a top 7 finish in the 2025 National Football League; in the event, Armagh qualified as an Ulster SFC finalist. Down, as winner of the 2024 Tailteann Cup, moved up to the All-Ireland championship round robin, regardless of provincial championship or National Football League position.
The final was played on 27 July 2025 at Croke Park in Dublin, between Ulster champions Donegal and Munster champions Kerry. Kerry won a 39th title, with a 1–26 to 0–19 win against Donegal in that game.
The draws for the competition took place on 12 October 2024.

Format

Provincial Championships

Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster each organised a provincial championship. All provincial matches were knock-out.

Group stage format

Sixteen teams progressed to the All-Ireland Championship round-robin:
  • The four provincial champions
  • The four beaten provincial finalists
  • The 2024 Tailteann Cup winner
  • The seven next-ranked teams, based on final position in the 2025 National Football League
  • * Position was based on standing after promotion and relegation were applied, and after finals had been played; therefore, the top two teams in Division 2 outranked the bottom two teams in Division 1, and if the 2nd placed team in Division 2 had won the final, they were ranked above the 1st-place finisher who had lost the final.
  • * If Down reached the Ulster final, an 8th team would have been chosen based on league position.
  • * New York did not participate in the League, although London did.
The other 17 county teams competed in the 2025 Tailteann Cup. New York, by failing to reach the final of the Connacht SFC, joined the Tailteann Cup in the preliminary quarter-final stage, the remaining teams in the round-robin group stages.
In the All-Ireland Championship round-robin, 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four teams. Each team played the other in its group once, earning 2 points for a win and 1 for a draw. Each team played one home, one away, and one neutral fixture.
The top three in each group advanced to the knockout stages, first-place teams to the All-Ireland quarter-finals, and second and third-placed teams to the preliminary quarter-finals.

Teams

Thirty-three counties competed in the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship: seven teams in the Connacht Senior Football Championship, eleven teams in the Leinster Senior Football Championship, six teams in the Munster Senior Football Championship and nine teams in the Ulster Senior Football Championship.
CountyLast Provincial titleLast Championship titlePosition in 2024 ChampionshipCurrent Championship
Antrim1951Ulster Senior Football Championship
Armagh20082024Ulster Senior Football Championship
Carlow1944Leinster Senior Football Championship
Cavan20201952Ulster Senior Football Championship
Clare1992Munster Senior Football Championship
Cork[2012 Munster GAA|Munster Senior Football Championship|2012]2010Munster Senior Football Championship
Derry20231993Ulster Senior Football Championship
Donegal20242012Ulster Senior Football Championship
Down19941994Ulster Senior Football Championship
Dublin[2024 Leinster GAA|Leinster Senior Football Championship|2024]2023Leinster Senior Football Championship
FermanaghUlster Senior Football Championship
Galway[2024 Connacht GAA|Connacht Senior Football Championship|2024]2001Connacht Senior Football Championship
Kerry20242022Munster Senior Football Championship
Kildare20001928Leinster Senior Football Championship
Laois2003Leinster Senior Football Championship
Leitrim1994Connacht Senior Football Championship
Limerick18961896Munster Senior Football Championship
LondonConnacht Senior Football Championship
Longford1968Leinster Senior Football Championship
Louth19571957Leinster Senior Football Championship
Mayo20211951Connacht Senior Football Championship
Meath20101999Leinster Senior Football Championship
Monaghan2015Ulster Senior Football Championship
New YorkConnacht Senior Football Championship
Offaly19971982Leinster Senior Football Championship
Roscommon20191944Connacht Senior Football Championship
Sligo2007Connacht Senior Football Championship
Tipperary20201920Munster Senior Football Championship
Tyrone20212021Ulster Senior Football Championship
Waterford1898Munster Senior Football Championship
Westmeath2004Leinster Senior Football Championship
Wexford19451918Leinster Senior Football Championship
WicklowLeinster Senior Football Championship

Provincial championships

Team allocation

Seven places in the All-Ireland group stage were allocated based on performance in the 2025 National Football League, as detailed below.

Group stage draw

Number in brackets indicates ranking in the 2025 NFL.

Pot 1

Pot 2

Pot 3

Pot 4

All-Ireland Championship round robin stage

Group 1


Group 2


Group 3


Group 4


Knockout stage

Knockout stage seeding

Seeded into quarter-finals
Seeded into preliminary quarter-finals
Unseeded in preliminary quarter-finals

Bracket


Miscellaneous

  • Liam Gallagher scored the first two-pointer in championship football. He did so against Roscommon in the 14th minute of their 2025 Connacht SFC meeting in Ruislip.
  • Neither Leinster SFC semi-final was held at Croke Park. This had not happened since 1995.
  • As Portlaoise hosted Dublin v Meath in the Leinster Senior Football Championship for the first since the fixture was played in Navan in 1980 that the fixture is not played at Croke Park. The match ended Dublin's 14-year spell as Leinster champions.
  • Clare scored a first Munster Senior Football Championship victory over Tipperary since 2000.
  • Clare reached a third consecutive Munster SFC final, having only previously done so in 191519161917.
  • Louth reached a third consecutive Leinster SFC final, having only previously done so in 191219131914.
  • Galway won a fourth consecutive Connacht SFC title for the first time since 1963–1966.
  • Louth won a first SFC Leinster title since 1957.
  • Cavan defeated Mayo in the championship for the first time since the 1948 All-Ireland SFC final.
  • Meath scored their first All-Ireland Senior Football Championship victory over Kerry since the 2001 semi-final.
  • Kerry's defeat against Meath was their heaviest since the 2001 semi-final.
  • Clare met Louth for the first time in the history of the championship.
  • Down played Galway in the championship for the first time since 1971.
  • Cavan conceded an all-time championship record of 3–26 against Donegal.
  • Meath reached the All-Ireland semi-finals for the first time since 2009.
  • Donegal defeated Meath by 20 points in the All-Ireland semi-finals; this tied for the fourth biggest winning margin in an All-Ireland SFC semi-final; the last score of the same size was in 1993 when Cork beat Mayo by 20. It was also the second-biggest win for Donegal in the championship, and the 3–26 they scored was the most scored by Donegal in a championship match.
  • Donegal played against 6 different Ulster counties in the championship, only missing and.
  • Donegal became the first team to play 11 championship matches in the same season.
  • Kerry won a record 39th title.
  • Kerry's score of 1–26, a total of 29 points, is the highest score ever in an All Ireland senior football championship final.

Attendances

The following table lists all 2025 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship matches with an attendance of at least 30,000. Attendance figures are taken from the match reports on this page.
#DateMatchVenueAttendanceNote
127 July 2025Kerry vs DonegalCroke Park82,109Final
213 July 2025Donegal vs MeathCroke Park82,000Semi-final
329 June 2025Armagh vs Kerry; Meath vs GalwayCroke Park70,530Quarter-finals doubleheader
411 May 2025Meath vs LouthCroke Park65,786Leinster final
512 July 2025Tyrone vs KerryCroke Park62,434Semi-final
628 June 2025Monaghan vs Donegal; Tyrone vs DublinCroke Park61,659Quarter-finals doubleheader
71 June 2025Dublin vs ArmaghCroke Park38,763Round 2
821 June 2025Dublin vs CorkCroke Park36,546Preliminary quarter-final