The 2011 Ulster Senior Football Championship was the 123rd 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

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who defeated

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in the final. It was their first Ulster title since

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. The winning Donegal team received the

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, and automatically advanced to the quarter-final stage of the 2011 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship. Donegal's semi-final defeat of Tyrone and Derry's semi-final defeat of

Armagh Armagh ( ; ga, Ard Mhacha, , "Macha's height") is the county town of County Armagh and a city in Northern Ireland, as well as a civil parish. It is the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland – the seat of the Archbishops of Armagh, the Pri ...

brought about the end of a long period of dominance by these two counties. Armagh and Tyrone had shared the previous eleven Ulster senior titles between them in a run stretching back to 1999. It also brought a first major trophy for

Jim McGuinness Jim McGuinness (born 16 November 1972) is an association football coach and former Gaelic footballer, coach and manager, who won the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship as both player and manager with the Donegal county team. Having gu ...

's famed Donegal team, who would go on to consign 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