2022 Senior Football and Hurling Provincial Championship draws

29 November 2021 - 10:13AM

Shane Walsh of Galway in action against Lee Keegan of Mayo during the 2021 Connacht GAA Senior Football Championship Final match between Galway and Mayo at Croke Park in Dublin.

Tyrone will have to travel a long road to successfully defend their All-Ireland in 2022 after the draw for next year’s Ulster Senior Football Championship paired them against Fermanagh in the Preliminary Round.

If they come through that match, things don’t get any easier thereafter as the winners of Tyrone-Fermanagh will play Derry in the Ulster SFC Quarter-Final.

Arguably the stand-out tie of the Ulster SFC draw though is the quarter-final pairing of Donegal and Armagh.

There are some juicy ties too in the other provinces, with the Connacht Quarter-Final clash of Galway and Mayo an obvious stand-out.

The two traditional powers in Munster, Kerry and Cork, also came out on the same side of their draw and will play one another in the Munster semi-final.

While in Leinster, defending champions Dublin will play the winners of Offaly and Wexford in the provincial quarter-final.

The provincial hurling championships will return to a round-robin format in 2022 and both should start with a bang.

In Leinster, managerial newcomers Henry Shefflin (Galway) and Darragh Egan (Wexford) will face off against one another in Round 1. Shefflin’s keenly awaited duel with former master, Kilkenny manager Brian Cody, comes in Round 3.

While in Munster, reigning provincial and All-Ireland champions, Limerick, will begin the defence of their titles with a re-run of last year’s All-Ireland Final against Cork.

2022 SENIOR FOOTBALL AND HURLING PROVINCIAL CHAMPIONSHIPS DRAWS

FOOTBALL

Ulster Senior Football Championship

Preliminary round

Fermanagh v Tyrone

Quarter-finals

Donegal v Armagh

Antrim v Cavan

Monaghan v Down

Derry v Fermanagh/Tyrone

Semi-finals

Donegal/Armagh v Antrim/Cavan

Monaghan/Down v Derry/Fermanagh/Tyrone

Connacht Senior Football Championship

Quarter-finals

New York v Sligo, London v Letrim, Mayo v Galway

Semi-finals

Roscommon v Sligo/New York, London/Leitrim v Mayo/Galway

Munster Senior Football Championship

Quarter-Finals

Tipperary v Waterford, Clare v Limerick

Semi-finals

Kerry v Cork, Tipperary/Waterford v Clare/Limerick

Leinster Senior Football Championship

First round

Louth v Carlow, Laois v Wicklow, Offaly v Wexford

Quarter-finals

Dublin v Offaly/Wexford, Meath v Laois/Wicklow, Kildare v Louth/Carlow, Westmeath v Longford

Séamus Flanagan of Limerick in action against Robert Downey of Cork during the GAA Hurling All-Ireland Senior Championship Final match between Cork and Limerick in Croke Park, Dublin.

HURLING

Munster Senior Hurling Championship

Round one

Cork v Limerick, Waterford v Tipperary

Round two

Limerick v Waterford, Tipperary v Clare

Round three

Clare v Limerick, Waterford v Cork

Round four

Cork v Clare, Limerick v Tipperary

Round five

Tipperary v Cork, Clare v Waterford