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tournament played between 31 counties of Ireland, London and

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. The draw for the 2009 championship took place on 9 October 2008. The tournament began on 10 May 2009. The

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took place on 20 September 2009, contested by

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and Kerry. This was the year

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and Gaelic football—he previously won the biggest prize in Australian rules with

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in 2005.

Structure

*Four knockout (single elimination format) provincial championships are played. London and

compete in Connacht. The 4 provincial champions advance to the All-Ireland quarter-finals. *The 16 teams eliminated before reaching a provincial semi-final compete in Round One of the Qualifiers (New York do not compete in the Qualifiers). The 8 Round One winners advance to Round Two. *Qualifiers, Round Two: The 8 teams eliminated in provincial semi-finals each play one of the 8 Round One winners. *Qualifiers, Round Three: The 8 Round Two winners play off to reduce the number to 4. *Qualifiers, Round Four: The 4 teams eliminated in provincial finals each play one of the 4 Round Three winners. *All-Ireland Quarter-finals: The 4 provincial champions each play one of the 4 Round Four winners. *The winners of the All-Ireland Quarter-finals then advance to the Semi-finals, and the winners of the Semi-finals go on to the 2009 All-Ireland final.

Fixtures and results

Leinster Senior Football Championship

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Munster Senior Football Championship

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Connacht Senior Football Championship

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Ulster Senior Football Championship

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All-Ireland qualifiers

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

A draw was made for round 3 of the qualifiers, with the winners of round 2 playing each other.

Round 4

A draw was made for round 4 of the qualifiers, with the winners of round three (

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, Kerry, Meath and Wicklow) playing against the losing provincial finalists ( Antrim, Galway, Kildare and Limerick).

All-Ireland series

Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Final

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

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. * Wicklow reached round 4 of the qualifiers, winning four championship games for the first time in their history. * Mayo and Meath met for the first time in the championship since the

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