2024 Louth county football team season

The following is a summary of Louth county football team's 2024 season.

Competitions

O'Byrne Cup

Fixtures

O'Byrne Shield

Teams defeated in their first match played in a shield tournament, which Louth won.

Fixtures

National Football League Division 2

Louth began with an away fixture against Armagh.

On 6 December 2023, the GAA announced that all Division 2 Round 7 games would be played separately from the Round 7 games in Division 1, 3 and 4, on Saturday, 23 March 2024, at 19:00, including Kildare v Louth at Dr Cullen Park. The rest of the fixtures were also confirmed on 6 December 2023.

Table

Fixtures

Leinster Senior Football Championship

The draw for the 2024 Leinster Championship was made on 21 October 2023, with Louth drawn to face Carlow or Wexford in the quarter-final.

Bracket

Fixtures

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

Louth were drawn into Group 4.

Table

Fixtures

Louth advanced to a preliminary quarter-final against Cork, which they won, in a surprise victory to qualify for a first ever All-Ireland SFC quarter-final. Louth were knocked out in the quarter-final.

Notable events

• Louth appeared in consecutive Leinster finals for the first time since 1957 and 1958.
• defeated in the championship for the first time since 1975.
• reached the All-Ireland SFC quarter-finals for the first time. (They had reached the semi-finals and final on previous occasions, but had not reached the quarter-finals since that stage was introduced in 2001.)
• Sam Mulroy scored seven goals in league and championship.

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