The 2020 Munster Senior Football Championship was the 2020 installment of the annual
Munster Senior Football Championship
The Munster Senior Football Championship, known simply as the Munster Championship and shortened to Munster SFC, is an annual inter-county Gaelic football competition organised by the Munster Council of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). It i ...
organised by the
Munster GAA
The Munster Council is a provincial council of the Gaelic Athletic Association sports of hurling, Gaelic football, camogie, rounders and handball in the province of Munster.
County boards
*Cork
* Clare
*Kerry
*Limerick
*Tipperary
*Waterfo ...
. The fixtures were announced on
RTÉ Radio
RTÉ Radio is a division of the Irish national broadcasting organisation Raidió Teilifís Éireann. RTÉ Radio broadcasts four analogue channels and five digital channels nationwide.
Founded in January 1926 as 2RN, the first broadcaster in th ...
on 8 October 2019. Due to the
impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Gaelic games
As with other sports, the COVID-19 pandemic caused disruption to Gaelic games, primarily in Ireland but also elsewhere in the world. Competitions were cancelled, postponed or restructured, while some teams were withdrawn or were unable to pa ...
, all GAA activity was suspended until late in the year.
On 22 November 2020,
Tipperary
Tipperary is the name of:
Places
*County Tipperary, a county in Ireland
**North Tipperary, a former administrative county based in Nenagh
**South Tipperary, a former administrative county based in Clonmel
*Tipperary (town), County Tipperary's na ...
won the title after a 0-17 to 0-14 win against
Cork
Cork or CORK may refer to:
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** Cork (plug), a cylindrical or conical object used to seal a container
***Wine cork
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* Cork (city)
** Metropolitan Cork, also known as G ...
in the final. It was Tipperary's first
Munster title in 85 years.
To mark the centenary of
Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday may refer to:
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* Bloody Sunday (1923), a day of police violence during a steelworkers' strike for union recognition in Sydney, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia
* Bloody Sunday (1938), police violence aga ...
, Tipperary wore special commemorative jerseys in white and green in the final, a replica of the colours worn by the Tipperary team which played Dublin in Croke Park in 1920.
Teams
The Munster championship is contested by all six counties in the Irish province of
Munster
Munster ( gle, an Mhumhain or ) is one of the provinces of Ireland, in the south of Ireland. In early Ireland, the Kingdom of Munster was one of the kingdoms of Gaelic Ireland ruled by a "king of over-kings" ( ga, rí ruirech). Following the ...
.
Bracket
Quarter-finals
The four non-finalists of the
2019
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championship entered this round. The lowest ranked counties to play in the quarter-finals were
Limerick
Limerick ( ; ga, Luimneach ) is a western city in Ireland situated within County Limerick. It is in the province of Munster and is located in the Mid-West which comprises part of the Southern Region. With a population of 94,192 at the 2016 ...
and
Waterford
"Waterford remains the untaken city"
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of
Division 4
''Division 4'' is an Australian television police drama series made by Crawford Productions for the Nine Network between 1969 and 1975 for 301 episodes.
Synopsis
The series was one of the first dramas to follow up on the enormous success o ...
.
Summary
Matches
Semi-finals
The two finalists from
the 2019 championship entered this round along with the two quarter-final winners. The lowest ranked county to play in the semi-finals was
Limerick
Limerick ( ; ga, Luimneach ) is a western city in Ireland situated within County Limerick. It is in the province of Munster and is located in the Mid-West which comprises part of the Southern Region. With a population of 94,192 at the 2016 ...
of
Division 4
''Division 4'' is an Australian television police drama series made by Crawford Productions for the Nine Network between 1969 and 1975 for 301 episodes.
Synopsis
The series was one of the first dramas to follow up on the enormous success o ...
.
Summary
Matches
Final
Tipperary
Tipperary is the name of:
Places
*County Tipperary, a county in Ireland
**North Tipperary, a former administrative county based in Nenagh
**South Tipperary, a former administrative county based in Clonmel
*Tipperary (town), County Tipperary's na ...
advanced to the
2020 All-Ireland SFC semi-finals.
See also
*
2020 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
The 2020 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 133rd edition of the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county Gaelic football tournament since its establishment in 1887.
The public health measures introduced to combat the CO ...
**
2020 Connacht Senior Football Championship
**
2020 Leinster Senior Football Championship
The 2020 Leinster Senior Football Championship is the 2020 iteration of Leinster Senior Football Championship organised by Leinster GAA.
The tournament was won by Dublin, their 59th Leinster championship, and tenth in a row, en route to their s ...
**
2020 Ulster Senior Football Championship
References
External links
* https://web.archive.org/web/20121028164800/http://munstergaa.ie/
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Munster Championship
The Munster GAA Hurling Senior Championship, known simply as the Munster Championship, is an annual inter-county hurling competition organised by the Munster Council of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). It is the highest inter-county hurlin ...
Munster Senior Football Championship