2014 Donegal Senior Football Championship

The 2014 Donegal Senior Football Championship was the 92nd official edition of the Donegal GAA's premier club Gaelic football tournament for senior graded teams in County Donegal.

Glenswilly was defending champion. The club was dethroned in the 2014 final.

Format
It was announced in 2013 that the 2014 championship would begin as soon as the senior Donegal county team was eliminated from the Sam Maguire Cup, which, as it transpired, was in September after the 2014 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final. The deferral was decided upon in September 2013 when twenty clubs voted in favour, while six did not (one club was not in attendance). The controversy over this decision became a "national media story" and irked inter-county manager Jim McGuinness.

The format remained the same as the previous year, when a group stage was introduced. 28 September Round 1 SFC; 5 October Round 2 SFC; 12 October Round 3 SFC; 19 October SFC quarter-final; 26 October SFC semi-final; 2 November SFC final.

Group 1

 * Round 1
 * Naomh Muire 0-10, 0-12 Naomh Conaill, The Banks, 27/9/2014,
 * Malin 2-6, 1-17 St Eunan's, Connolly Park, 28/9/2014,


 * Round 2
 * Naomh Conaill 0-10, 0-7 Malin, Glenties, 4/10/2014,
 * St Eunan's 1-21, 1-5 Naomh Muire, O'Donnell Park, 5/10/2014,


 * Round 3
 * Naomh Muire 1-9, 6-10 Malin, Connolly Park, 12/10/2014,
 * Naomh Conaill 0-9, 0-7 St Eunan's, Glenties, 12/10/2014,

Group 2

 * Round 1
 * Glenfin 0-8, 0-13 Seán Mac Cumhaills, Glenfin, 27/9/2014
 * Four Masters 0-9, 0-9 Ard an Rátha, Pairc Tir Conaill, 28/9/2014


 * Round 2
 * Seán Mac Cumhaills 0-9, 2-14 Four Masters, MacCumhaill Park, 4/10/2014
 * Ard an Rátha 0-13, 1-9 Glenfin, Ard an Rátha, 5/10/2014


 * Round 3
 * Seán Mac Cumhaills 0-13, 2-7 Ard an Rátha, MacCumhaill Park, 11/10/2014
 * Glenfin 0-7, 2-13 Four Masters, Glenfin, 11/10/2014

Group 3

 * Round 1
 * Na Cealla Beaga 1-6, 1-6 Gaoth Dobhair, Killybegs, 27/9/2014
 * An Clochán Liath 0-11, 0-8 Termon, An Clochán Liath, 28/9/2014


 * Round 2:
 * Gaoth Dobhair 1-8, 0-8 An Clochán Liath, Gaoth Dobhair, 5/10/2014
 * Termon 0-8, 1-5 Na Cealla Beaga, Termon, 5/10/2014


 * Round 3:
 * Termon 0-14, 1-9 Gaoth Dobhair, Termon, 12/10/2014
 * An Clochán Liath 0-9, 0-7 Na Cealla Beaga, An Clochán Liath, 12/10/2014

Group 4

 * Round 1
 * St Michael's 4-10, 0-6 Réalt na Mara, Dunfanaghy, 27/9/2014
 * Glenswilly 0-6, 0-9 Cill Chartha, Glenswilly, 28/9/2014


 * Round 2
 * Réalt na Mara 0-9, 6-15 Glenswilly, Bundoran, 4/10/2014
 * Cill Chartha 0-5, 2-8 St Michael's, 5/10/2014


 * Round 3
 * Cill Chartha 5-15, 0-3 Réalt na Mara, Kilcar, 11/10/2014
 * Glenswilly 1-4, 1-2 St Michael's, Glenswilly, 11/10/2014

Knock-out stage

 * Quarter-finals
 * Four Masters 0-7, 2-10 St Eunan's, MacCumhaill Park, 18/10/2014
 * An Clochán Liath 0-10, 1-13 St Michael's, MacCumhaill Park, 19/10/2014
 * Glenswilly 3-9, 0-4 Termon, O'Donnell Park, 19/10/2014,
 * Naomh Conaill 0-12, 1-9 Ard an Rátha, Tír Conaill Park, 19/10/2014


 * Quarter-final Replay
 * Naomh Conaill 0-9, 1-5 Ard an Rátha, MacCumhaill Park, 22/10/2014


 * Semi-finals
 * St Eunan's 1-12, 2-8 St Michael's, MacCumhaill Park, 26/10/2014
 * Naomh Conaill 0-8, 0-10 Glenswilly, O'Donnell Park, 26/10/2014


 * Final
 * St Eunan's 0-9, 0-6 Glenswilly, MacCumhaill Park, 2/11/2014

Final
Ahead of the final Glenswilly player and Donegal captain Michael Murphy was named Ireland captain for the 2014 International Rules Test, the second consecutive year this had happened.

Naomh Conaill lost a last ditch appeal to contest the final. Their grievance came from a black-card incident in their semi-final, involving Glenswilly's Ciaran Bonner. Glenswilly led the Glenties-based team by one point with two minutes of normal time remaining, when Bonner got the black card and was replaced by substitute Oisín Crawford. Bonner, Naomh Conaill maintained, was not eligible to be replaced as he had already picked up a yellow card.

Glenswilly lost.

Relegation semi-finals

 * Na Calla Beaga w, l Réalt na Mara, Tir Conaill Park, 19/10/2015,
 * Naomh Mhuire w, l Glenfin, Glenswilly, 19/10/2015,

Relegation final

 * Glenfin w, l Réalt na Mara