2016 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship

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All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship 2016
Championship details
Dates14 May – 25 September 2016
Teams13
All-Ireland champions
Winners Cork (11th win)
CaptainCiara O’Sullivan
Manager Ephie Fitzgerald
All Ireland Runners-up
Runners-up Dublin
Captain Noëlle Healy
ManagerGregory McGonigle
Provincial champions
Connacht Mayo
Leinster Dublin
Munster Cork
Ulster Monaghan
Championship Statistics
Matches Played27
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The 2016 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship is the 43rd edition of the Ladies' Gaelic Football Association's premier inter-county Ladies' Gaelic Football tournament. It is known for sponsorship reasons as the TG4 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship.

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Cork were the defending champions and successfully defended their title beating Dublin in the final on 25 September 2016. The 2016 attendance of 34,445 was a new record.

Format

Provincial Championships

Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster each organise their provincial championship. Each province determines the format for deciding their champions and it may be league, group, knock-out, double-elimination, etc. or a combination. For clarity, the format is explained in the provincial sections below.

Qualifiers

All teams except the provincial champions enter the All-Ireland qualifiers. The final four qualifier winners re-enter the All-Ireland championship at the quarterfinal stage. All matches are knock-out.

All-Ireland

The four provincial champions play the four winners from the qualifiers in the All-Ireland quarterfinals with the winners progressing to the semifinals. The final is normally played on the fourth Sunday in September. All matches are knock-out.

Provincial championships

Connacht Championship

Connacht Format

As only two teams enter, a knock-out final is played.

Connacht Final

Final
Mayo 3-20 – 0-16 Galway
Report
Referee: John Niland (Sligo)

Leinster Championship

Leinster Format

Four Leinster teams (Dublin, Laois, Meath and Westmeath) compete in an initial group stage. Each team plays all the other teams once in three rounds of two matches. The top two teams advance to the final.

Leinster Group Stage

Leinster Round 1
  • Dublin 3-15 – 0-4 Laois
  • Meath 2-14 – 5-21 Westmeath
Leinster Round 2
  • Laois 3-6 – 2-9 Meath
  • Westmeath 1-4 – 4-12 Dublin
Leinster Round 3
  • Laois 1-11 – 2-12 Westmeath
  • Meath 2-4 – 3-19 Dublin
Table
  1. Dublin (6 pts)
  2. Westmeath (4)
  3. Laois (1)
  4. Meath (1)

Leinster Final

10 July 2016
3:00 pm
Final		 Dublin 4-21 - 0-7 Westmeath O'Moore Park
Referee: Colm McManus (Meath)
Man of the Match: Nicole Owens (St. Sylvesters)
Lyndsey Davey 1-4 (0-1f), Nicole Owens 0-6, Carla Rowe and Sinead Aherne (0-1f) 1-2 each, Sinéad Goldrick 1-1, Noëlle Healy 0-3, Ciara Trant (0-1f), Deirdre Murphy, Siobhan Woods 0-1 each Report Leona Archibald 0-4 (0-3f), Lucy McCartan, Fiona Claffey, Maud Annie Foley 0-1 each

Munster Championship

Munster Format

Three Munster teams (Cork, Kerry and Waterford) compete in an initial group stage. The top two teams advance to the final.

Munster Group Stage

Group Match
Cork1-10 - 0-7Waterford
Group Match
Kerry 2-14 - 2-9 Cork
Group Match
Kerry 1-14 – 1-7 Waterford
Report

Munster Final

Final
Cork 2-8 – 0-7 Kerry
Report

Ulster Championship

Ulster Format

Four teams compete in two semifinals and a final. All matches are knockout.

Ulster Semifinals

Semifinal
Cavan 1-9 - 1-8 Donegal
Semifinal
Armagh 2-4 - 3-17 Monaghan

Ulster Final

Final
Monaghan 0-14 - 1-8 Cavan

Qualifiers

Qualifiers Format


All the teams except the provincial champions enter the qualifiers. A preliminary round is held to reduce the number of teams to eight who then play four matches. All matches are knock-out.

The four winners play the four provincial champions in the All-Ireland quarterfinals.

Qualifiers Preliminary Round

Preliminary round
Armagh 2-13 - 4-13 Waterford
Clane, Kildare

Qualifiers Last Eight

Qualifier
Donegal 3-15 - 4-11 Galway
Pearse Park, Longford
Qualifier
Meath 1-4 - 3-20 Westmeath
Cusack Park, Mullingar
Qualifier
Cavan 1-15 - 1-13 Laois
Birr, Offaly
Qualifier
Kerry 3-19 - 3-10 Waterford
Birr, Offaly

All-Ireland

All-Ireland Quarterfinals

The four provincial champions play the four winners from the qualifiers.

Quarterfinal
Mayo 2-10 - 1-11 Westmeath
Pearse Park, Longford
Quarterfinal
Dublin 1-13 – 2-7 Donegal
Sinéad Aherne 1-6 (3f), C Rowe 0-3, Niamh McEvoy 0-2, S Woods and Lyndsey Davey 0-1 each Report K Guthrie 0-4 (4f), Y McMonagle 1-1 (1f), G McLaughlin 1-0, A Barrett and K Herron 0-1 each
Pearse Park, Longford
Referee: G Chapman (Sligo)
Quarterfinal
Cork 3-17 - 1-3 Cavan
Birr
Quarterfinal
Monaghan 6-17 - 1-16 Kerry
Birr, Offaly

All-Ireland Semifinals

Semifinal
Mayo 1-12 - 2-10 Dublin
Breffni Park, Cavan
Semifinal
Cork 2-10 - 1-10 Monaghan
Gaelic Grounds, Limerick

All-Ireland final

Cork 1-7; 1-6 Dublin
Rhona Ní Bhuachalla (1-0)
Doireann O'Sullivan (0-3)
Orla Finn (0-3)
Orlagh Farmer (0-1)		 [1] [2] [3] Sinéad Aherne (1-3)
Niamh McEvoy (0-1)
Noëlle Healy (0-1)
Lyndsey Davey (0-1)
Croke Park, Dublin
Attendance: 34,445
Referee: Brendan Rice (Down)

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  2. ↑ "As it happened: Cork v Dublin, All-Ireland ladies senior football final". www.the42.ie. 25 September 2016. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
  3. ↑ "Cork v Dublin - TG4 Ladies Football All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final Photos". www.sportsfile.com. 25 September 2016. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
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