The 2022 Ulster Senior Football Championship is the 134th 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 ...
organised by
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 is one of the four provincial competitions of the
2022 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship. The winners receive the Anglo-Celt Cup. The draw for the 2022 Ulster Championship was made on 28 November 2021.
Teams
The Ulster championship is contested by the nine
county team
A county is a geographic region within Gaelic games, controlled by a county board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) and originally based on the 32 counties of Ireland as they were in 1884. While the administrative geography of Ireland has ...
s in the province of
Ulster
Ulster (; ga, Ulaidh or ''Cúige Uladh'' ; sco, label= Ulster Scots, Ulstèr or ''Ulster'') is one of the four traditional Irish provinces. It is made up of nine counties: six of these constitute Northern Ireland (a part of the United King ...
.
Championship draw
Preliminary round
Two counties were randomly drawn to face each other in the preliminary round. The lowest ranked county to play in the preliminary round was
Fermanagh
Historically, Fermanagh ( ga, Fir Manach), as opposed to the modern County Fermanagh, was a kingdom of Gaelic Ireland, associated geographically with present-day County Fermanagh. ''Fir Manach'' originally referred to a distinct kin group of a ...
of
Division 3.
Quarter-Finals
Seven counties were given a
bye to this stage and were joined by the preliminary round's winning team. The lowest ranked counties to play in the quarter-finals were
Antrim,
Cavan
Cavan ( ; ) is the county town of County Cavan in Ireland. The town lies in Ulster, near the border with County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland. The town is bypassed by the main N3 road that links Dublin (to the south) with Enniskillen, Bally ...
and
Down of Division 3.
Semi-finals
Final
The winning team advanced to the
2022 All-Ireland SFC, while the losing team advanced to the All-Ireland SFC qualifiers.
See also
*
2022 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
**
2022 Connacht Senior Football Championship
**
2022 Leinster Senior Football Championship
The 2022 Leinster Senior Football Championship was the 2022 iteration of the Leinster Senior Football Championship organised by Leinster GAA.
The draws for the preliminary round and quarter-finals took place on Saturday 27 November 2021, while ...
**
2022 Munster Senior Football Championship
The 2022 Munster Senior Football Championship was the 2022 installment of the annual Munster Senior Football Championship organised by the Munster GAA. Kerry were defending champions and went on to retain the title after a 1-28 to 0-8 win agains ...
Notes
References
External links
* http://ulster.gaa.ie/
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Ulster Senior Football Championship