2024 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

The 2024 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship is the 137th edition of the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county Gaelic football tournament since its establishment in 1887. Thirty one of the thirty two Irish counties take part – Kilkenny will not compete, while London and New York complete the lineup.

The championship worked as a two-tier system for the third time, with the Tailteann Cup being the second-tier competition for those that do not qualify for the Sam Maguire Cup competition.

The draws for the championship took place on 21 October 2023. The All-Ireland final will be played on 28 July 2024 at Croke Park in Dublin, between Armagh and Connacht champions Galway.

Provincial Championships
Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster each organise a provincial championship. All provincial matches are knock-out.

Group stage format
Sixteen teams progress to the All-Ireland Championship round-robin:


 * The 4 provincial champions
 * The 4 beaten provincial finalists
 * The 2023 Tailteann Cup winners (Meath)
 * The 7 next-ranked teams, based on final position in the 2024 National Football League
 * Position is based on standing after promotion and relegation are applied and after finals are played; therefore, the top two teams in Division 2 outrank the bottom two teams in Division 1, and if the 2nd placed team in Division 2 wins the final, they are ranked above the 1st-place finishers who lost the final.
 * If Meath reach the Leinster final, then an 8th team will be chosen based on league position.

The other 17 county teams compete in the 2024 Tailteann Cup.

In the All-Ireland Championship round-robin, 16 teams are drawn into four groups of four teams. Each team plays the other teams in its group once, earning 2 points for a win and 1 for a draw. Each team plays one home, one away and one neutral fixture.

The top three in each group advance to the knockout stages; first-place teams to the All-Ireland quarter-finals, and second- and third-placed teams to the preliminary quarter-finals.

All-Ireland format
The four second-placed teams play against the third-placed teams in the preliminary quarter-finals. The winners of the preliminary quarter-finals advance to play the group winners in the All-Ireland quarter-finals. Two semi-finals and a final follow. All matches are knock-out.

General Information
Thirty three counties will compete 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.

Connacht Senior Football Championship
In rotation, Galway will play London and Mayo will host New York in the Quarter-finals the other Quarter final will be an open draw between Sligo, Leitrim and Roscommon. 1 team will go straight to Semi-final as a bye.

Team allocation
Seven places in the All-Ireland group stage are allocated based on performance in the 2024 National Football League, as detailed below.

Group stage draw
Number in brackets indicates ranking in the 2024 NFL.

Pot 1

 * Colours_of_Dublin.svg Dublin (2)
 * Colours_of_Kerry.svg Kerry (3)
 * Colours_of_Galway.svg Galway (6)
 * Colours_of_Donegal.svg Donegal (7)

Pot 2

 * Colours_of_Mayo.svg Mayo (4)
 * Colours_of_Armagh.svg Armagh (8)
 * Colours_of_Louth.svg Louth (14)
 * Colours_of_Clare.svg Clare (19)

Pot 3

 * Colours_of_Derry.svg Derry (1)
 * Colours_of_Tyrone.svg Tyrone (5)
 * Colours_of_Roscommon.svg Roscommon (9)
 * Colours_of_Monaghan.svg Monaghan (10)

Pot 4

 * Colours_of_Cavan.svg Cavan (11)
 * Colours_of_Cork.svg Cork (12)
 * Colours_of_Meath.svg Meath (13)
 * Colours_of_Westmeath.svg Westmeath (15)

Seeded in quarter-finals

 * Colours_of_Armagh.svg Armagh
 * Colours_of_Dublin.svg Dublin
 * Colours_of_Donegal.svg Donegal
 * Colours_of_Kerry.svg Kerry

Unseeded in quarter-finals

 * Colours_of_Derry.svg Derry
 * Colours_of_Galway.svg Galway
 * Colours_of_Louth.svg Louth
 * Colours_of_Roscommon.svg Roscommon

Seeded in preliminary quarter-finals

 * Colours_of_Galway.svg Galway
 * Colours_of Louth.svg Louth
 * Colours_of Mayo.svg Mayo
 * Colours_of_Tyrone.svg Tyrone

Unseeded in preliminary quarter-finals

 * Colours_of_Cork.svg Cork
 * Colours_of_Derry.svg Derry
 * Colours_of_Monaghan.svg Monaghan
 * Colours_of_Roscommon.svg Roscommon

Scoring events
Does not include after extra-time.

As of 27 June (after preliminary quarter-finals).
 * Widest winning margin: 27 points
 * London 0-09 - 5-21 Galway (Connacht quarter-final)
 * Most goals in a match: 6
 * Longford 3-12 - 3-19 Meath (Leinster preliminary round)
 * Most points in a match: 41
 * Donegal 1-23 - 0-18 Louth (All-Ireland quarter-final)
 * Most goals by one team in a match: 5
 * London 0-09 - 5-21 Galway (Connacht quarter-final)
 * Cavan 0-13 - 5-17 Dublin (Round 2)
 * Most points by one team in a match: 24
 * Kerry 0-24 - 1-11 Monaghan (Round 1)
 * Highest aggregate score: 52 points
 * Cavan 1-20 - 3-20 Roscommon (Round 3)
 * Lowest aggregate score: 21 points
 * Leitrim 0-06 - 0-15 Sligo (Connacht quarter-final)
 * Waterford 2-07 - 1-05 Tipperary (Munster quarter-final)

Miscellaneous

 * and Leitrim meet in the Connacht Championship for the first time since 2011.
 * Waterford beat Tipperary for the first time since 1988 and have their first win in the Munster SFC since 2010.
 * and meet in the Leinster championship for the first time since 2007.
 * Clare appear in consecutive Munster finals for the first time since 1936 and 1937.
 * Ennis hosted the Munster SFC final for the first time since 1919.
 * Louth appear in consecutive Leinster finals for the first time since 1957 and 1958.
 * defeated in the championship for the first time since 1975.
 * win the Connacht title third year running for the first time since 1982–84.
 * win a 14th Leinster title in a row.
 * Inniskeen hosted its first ever championship game.
 * reached the All-Ireland quarter-finals for the first time. (They had reached the semi-finals and final on previous occasions, but had not reached the quarter-finals since that stage was introduced in 2001.)
 * reached the All-Ireland semi-finals for the first time since 2005 and reached the All-Ireland final for the first time since 2003.
 * wore black against in the All-Ireland semi-final.
 * failed to reach the All-Ireland semi-finals for the first time since 2009.
 * reached the All-Ireland semi-finals for the first time since 2014.
 * played, and lost to, all four teams that reached the All-Ireland semi finals.