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2025 Tailteann Cup

The 2025 Tailteann Cup was the fourth edition of the Tailteann Cup, a Gaelic football competition contested by the seventeen county teams that did not qualify for the last 16 of the 2025 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship.

Kildare were the winners, defeating Limerick in the final. Kildare will thus qualify automatically for the last 16 of the 2026 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship.

Format

The 17 teams who compete in the 2025 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship but did not qualify for the round-robin group stages competed in the competition.

advanced directly to the preliminary quarter-finals. The other 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four teams. Seeding was determined by placing in the 2025 National Football League (after promotion and relegation was applied and after NFL division finals).

Each team in a group played the other teams in their group once; each team getting one home fixture, one away and one neutral. Teams are awarded two points for a win and one point for a draw.

The four preliminary quarter-finals consisted of:

  • The four second-placed teams (home), against
  • and the three third-placed teams with the best record (away).

At the quarter-final stage the four group winners played the four preliminary quarter-final winners.

The semi-finals and final were played in Croke Park. All knock-out matches were "winner on the day". The key prize for the winner of the 2026 Tailteann Cup was to qualify for the group stage of 2026 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship regardless of their league position.

Teams

General information

Seventeen county teams competed in the Tailteann Cup. Only one, , does so as a previous winner of the cup.

Draws

Group stage seeding

Numbers in brackets indicate ranking in the 2025 NFL.

Pot 1

Pot 2

Pot 3

Pot 4

New York enter the Tailteann Cup at the preliminary quarter-final stage.

Knockout stage seeding

The preliminary quarter-final draw took place on 1 June 2025. The quarter-final draw is on 9 June. The semi-final draw is on 16 June.

Seeded into quarter-finals

Unseeded in quarter-finals

Seeded into preliminary quarter-finals

Unseeded in preliminary quarter-finals

Group stage

Group 1

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Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Group 2

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Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Group 3

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Group 4

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Ranking of third-placed teams

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Knockout stage

Bracket

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Preliminary quarter-finals

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Stadia and locations

Statistics

Scoring events

In Westmeath's game against Antrim, Luke Loughlin nearly broke Cillian O'Connor's record for the highest individual score in a championship match.

  • Widest winning margin: 25 points
  • Most goals in a match: 7 (Wexford v Antrim)
  • Most points in a match: 47
  • Most goals by one team in a match: 5 (Wexford)
  • Most points by one team in a match: 36
  • Highest aggregate score: 58 points (Wexford v Limerick)
  • Lowest aggregate score: 22 points (Kildare v Fermanagh)

Miscellaneous

  • None of the four semi-finalists had ever reached the Tailteann Cup semi-finals before.

See also

References