The 2010 Ulster Senior Football Championship was the 122nd installment of the annual

Ulster Senior Football Championship The Ulster Senior Football Championship is an inter-county competition for Gaelic football teams in the province of Ulster. It is organised by the Ulster Council of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) and begins in early May. The final is usu ...

held under the auspices of the

Ulster GAA The Ulster Council ( ga, Comhairle Uladh) is a provincial council of the Gaelic Athletic Association sports of hurling, Gaelic football, camogie, and handball in the province of Ulster. The headquarters of the Ulster GAA is based in the city o ...

. It was won by Tyrone who defeated

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in the final to retain the title they won the previous year. The winning team received the

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, and automatically advanced to the quarter-final stage of the 2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship. 2010 was the final year of

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and Tyrone's eleven-year sharing of Ulster senior titles. The following year brought the rise of an exciting young

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team which consigned the decade-long dominance of those two counties to history.

Bracket

Preliminary round

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

References

External links

Ulster GAA website
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Ulster Senior Football Championship