2024 Tailteann Cup

The 2024 Tailteann Cup was the third edition of the Tailteann Cup, the second-tier of Gaelic football for senior county teams (the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship is the first-tier trophy). It was contested by seventeen GAA county teams who failed to reach their last 16 of the 2024 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship. made their first appearance. The group draw took place on 30 April 2024.

The final was played on 13 July 2024 at Croke Park in Dublin, between and. Down won after defeating Laois 0–14 to 2–06, and qualified for the group stage of the 2025 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship.

Format
The 17 teams who competed in the 2024 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship but did not qualify for the round-robin group stages compete in the Tailteann Cup. enter the Tailteann Cup for the first time.

advance directly to the preliminary quarter-finals. The other 16 teams are drawn into four groups of four teams. Seeding is determined by placing in the 2024 National Football League (after promotion and relegation is applied and after division finals take place).

Each team in a group plays the other teams in their group once; each team gets one home fixture, one away and one neutral. Teams are awarded two points for a win and one point for a draw.

The four preliminary quarter-finals will consist of the second-placed teams receiving home advantage against and the three third-placed teams with the best record. At the quarter-final stage the four group winners play the four preliminary quarter-final winners.

The semi-finals and final are played in Croke Park. All knock-out matches are winner on the day. The winner of the 2024 Tailteann Cup qualify for the group stage of 2025 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship regardless of their league position.

Teams by province
Britain (1)


 * Colours_of_London.svg London

Connacht (2)


 * Colours_of_Leitrim.svg Leitrim
 * Colours_of_Sligo.svg Sligo

Leinster (7)


 * Colours_of_Carlow.svg Carlow
 * Colours_of_Kildare.svg Kildare (debut)
 * Colours_of_Laois.svg Laois
 * Colours_of_Longford.svg Longford
 * Colours_of_Offaly.svg Offaly
 * Colours_of_Wexford.svg Wexford
 * Colours_of_Wicklow.svg Wicklow

Munster (3)


 * Colours_of_Limerick.svg Limerick
 * Colours_of_Tipperary.svg Tipperary
 * Colours_of_Waterford.svg Waterford

Ulster (3)


 * Colours_of_Antrim.svg Antrim
 * Colours_of_Down.svg Down
 * Colours_of_Fermanagh.svg Fermanagh

North America (1)


 * Colors_of_New_York.svg New York

General information
Seventeen county teams compete in the Tailteann Cup:

Group stage seeding
Numbers in brackets indicate ranking in the 2024 NFL.

Pot 1
 * Colours_of_Down.svg Down (16)
 * Colours_of_Fermanagh.svg Fermanagh (17)
 * Colours_of_Kildare.svg Kildare (18)
 * Colours_of_Sligo.svg Sligo (20)

Pot 2
 * Colours_of_Antrim.svg Antrim (21)
 * Colours_of_Offaly.svg Offaly (22)
 * Colours_of_Laois.svg Laois (23)
 * Colours_of_Leitrim.svg Leitrim (24)

Pot 3
 * Colours of Longford GAA.svg Wicklow (25)
 * Colours_of_Limerick.svg Limerick (26)
 * Colours_of_Wexford.svg Wexford (27)
 * Colours_of_Longford GAA.svg Longford (28)

Pot 4
 * Colours_of_Carlow.svg Carlow (29)
 * Colours of Longford GAA.svg Tipperary (30)
 * Colours_of_Waterford.svg Waterford (31)
 * Colours_of_London.svg London (32)

New York (33) enter the Tailteann Cup at the preliminary quarter-final stage.

Knockout stage seeding
The preliminary quarter-final draw took place on 2 June 2024.

Seeded into quarter-finals
 * Colours of Kildare.svg Kildare
 * Colours of Sligo.svg Sligo
 * Colours of Fermanagh.svg Fermanagh
 * Colours of Down.svg Down

Seeded into preliminary quarter-finals
 * Colours of Leitrim.svg Leitrim
 * Colours_of_Antrim.svg Antrim
 * Colours of Laois.svg Laois
 * Colours of Limerick.svg Limerick

Unseeded in preliminary quarter-finals
 * Colours of London.svg London (3rd Group 4)
 * Colours of Wicklow.svg Wicklow (3rd Group 3)
 * Colours of Tipperary.svg Tipperary (3rd Group 2)
 * Colors of New York.svg New York (automatically placed in preliminary quarter-finals)

Scoring events
As of 24 June (after semi-finals).
 * Widest winning margin: 24 points
 * Waterford 0-06 - 5-15 Kildare (Round 2)
 * Most goals in a match: 6
 * Antrim 4-12 - 2-13 Tipperary (Round 1)
 * Most points in a match: 40
 * Sligo 0-20 - 0-20 Antrim (Round 3)
 * Most goals by one team in a match: 5
 * Waterford 0-06 - 5-15 Kildare (Round 2)
 * Most points by one team in a match: 25
 * Kildare 3-25 - 1-11 Longford (Round 1)
 * Highest aggregate score: 50 points
 * Down 2-22 - 3-13 Offaly (Round 3)
 * Lowest aggregate score: 21 points
 * Laois 0-11 - 0-10 Wicklow (Round 2)

Miscellaneous

 * Kildare make their debut in the Tailteann Cup.
 * win their first ever Tailteann Cup match after defeating Offaly.
 * and progress past the first round of the Tailteann Cup for the first time, after being knocked out in the initial stage in both 2022 and 2023.