2016 Etihad Airways GAA World Games

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2016 Etihad Airways GAA World Games
Dates9 August 2016
12 August 2016
Sponsor Etihad Airways

The 2016 Etihad Airways GAA World Games was a global competition of Gaelic football, hurling, and camogie run by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), featuring teams from six continents. This was the 2nd GAA World Games and the first to be played in Ireland, with the first ever tournament played in Abu Dhabi the previous summer. The opening ceremony and throw in was held on August 6 at Croke Park, while the majority of the games were held at University College Dublin from 9 August to 11 August 2016, with the finals being played on Friday, 12 August 2016 at Croke Park.

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The GAA's four main sports (men's Gaelic football), ladies' Gaelic football, hurling and camogie (women's version of hurling) were featured at the event. Each sport consisted of two separate tournaments: one for native players (born and raised in the country they are competing for) and one for Irish born players (born in Ireland before emigrating to whatever team they are playing for), creating a total of 8 separate competitions.

Each game has 9 players a side with 9 minutes a half. As the tournament progresses the game time increases to 12 minutes a half in the knockout and then 15 minutes a half in the shield, plate and final games. This is different to the usual game which has 15 players a side with 30 minutes a half. During the four days 254 games were played with the 8 finals being played in Croke Park. With the games at UCD having free entry

The games were not broadcast live but Irish language public broadcaster TG4 later broadcast highlights, features and interviews of the tournament in December that year. The program was also made available on TG4 Player, the broadcasters on demand streaming network. [1] The opening and closing ceremonies were televised around the world.

Teams

Over 1,100 competitors from 56 teams within 20 countries, stretching 6 continents took part in the event. Most of these competitors are Irish people living abroad, but up to a third of them are foreign born players. China and South Africa competed with completely non-Irish teams. [2]

Africa

  1. South Africa Gaels

Middle East

  1. Abu Dhabi na Fianna
  2. Middle East
  3. Oman GAA

Asia

  1. Beijing
  2. Asia

Australia

  1. Australasia

Europe

  1. Britain
  2. Brittany (France)
  3. Croydon (London)
  4. Europe
  5. Father Murphy's (London)
  6. France
  7. Galicia (Spain)
  8. Germany
  9. Jersey
  10. Parnells (London)
  11. Tara (London)
  12. Thomas McCurtains
  13. Tir Chonail Gaels (London)

North America

  1. Canada Eastern
  2. Canada Toronto
  3. Canada Western
  4. NACB Chicago
  5. NACB Eire Og San Francisco
  6. New York
  7. North America

South America

  1. Argentina

Format

Preliminary round robin

Teams were put into groups of 3 or 4 for the preliminary stage and played off in a double or single round-robin format respectively. The top team from each group of three and the top two from each group of four would go into the Cup Play-offs on Wednesday while any team that did not qualify for the Cup Play-offs would go into the Shield Play-offs on Wednesday. The hurling competitions were the only exceptions, where there was only one group of three in both the native and Irish divisions, therefore there was no shield competition, and the top two from each of those groups went into the finals on Friday.

Wednesday Cup Play-offs

In both ladies' football divisions, camogie and the men's football Irish division, there was only one Cup Play-off group. The teams in it competed in a round-robin format with the top two going into the finals on Friday. Any team that did not finish in the top 2 went into the Plate Play-offs on Thursday. Due to the large number of teams in the men's native football, there were two Cup Play-off groups with the top team from each going into the final on Friday, all other teams to not qualify for the final went into the Plate Play-offs on Thursday.

Wednesday Shield Play-offs

Similar to the Cup Playoffs, the Shield Play-offs were contested in a round-robin format with the top team in each group going into the Shield final on Thursday, any team that did not qualify for the Shield final went into the Plate Playoffs on Friday.

Friday Cup Finals

The Cup Finals were played on Friday, August 12 at Croke Park. Eight finals were played in total from going from 11AM to 5PM.

Results

The results show are all the results for the camogie and men's native hurling games. Then also all the results of the finals.

Camogie

Group A

9 August 2016First round Australasia 5-12 - 0-00 Thomas McCurtains UCD
9 August 2016First round New York 4-05 - 0-05 Thomas McCurtains UCD
9 August 2016First round Australasia 7-11 - 0-02 New York UCD
9 August 2016Second round Australasia 3-10 - 0-01 Thomas McCurtains UCD
9 August 2016Second round New York 0-12 - 2-01 Thomas McCurtains UCD
9 August 2016Second round Australasia 2-08 - 0-02 New York UCD
Key to colours
    Advance to Cup Play-offs
    Advance to Shield Play-offs
TeamPldWDLPts
Colours of Leitrim.svg Australasia 44008
Colours of New York.svg New York 42024
Colours of Galway.svg Thomas McCurtains 40040

Group B

9 August 2016First round Croydon 2-00 - 2-05 Tara UCD
9 August 2016First round Europe 4-11 - 0-00 North America Native UCD
9 August 2016First round Europe 2-06 - 1-02 Croydon UCD
9 August 2016First round Tara 5-13 - 0-00 North America Native UCD
9 August 2016First round Croydon 6-02 - 0-01 North America Native UCD
9 August 2016First round Europe 3-04 - 0-05 Tara UCD
TeamPldWDLPts
Colours of Tipperary.svg Europe 33006
Colours of Laois.svg Tara32014
Croydon31022
North America Native 30030

Group C

9 August 2016First round Canada Toronto 4-06 - 0-01 Father Murphy's UCD
9 August 2016First round Middle East 6-08 - 0-00 Britain Native UCD
9 August 2016First round Middle East 0-09 - 1-00 Father Murphy's UCD
9 August 2016First round Canada Toronto 6-04 - 0-00 Britain Native UCD
9 August 2016First round Father Murphy's 4-00 - 0-01 Britain Native UCD
9 August 2016First round Middle East 2-04 - 0-00 Canada Toronto UCD
TeamPldWDLPts
Colours of Kilkenny.svg Middle East33006
Canada Toronto 32014
Colours of Wexford.svg Father Murphy's31022
Colours of Fermanagh.svg Britain Native30030

Cup Play-offs

10 August 2016Cup Play-off Australasia 3-09 - 1-00 Europe UCD
10 August 2016Cup Play-off Middle East 1-05 - 0-01 Canada Toronto UCD
10 August 2016Cup Play-off Middle East 1-03 - 2-04 Tara UCD
10 August 2016Cup Play-off Canada Toronto 0-02 - 2-03 Europe UCD
10 August 2016Cup Play-off Europe 1-03 - 2-02 Tara UCD
10 August 2016Cup Play-off Australasia 4-08 - 0-00 Canada Toronto UCD
10 August 2016Cup Play-off Australasia 6-05 - 0-02 Middle East UCD
10 August 2016Cup Play-off Tara 2-08 - 0-01 Canada Toronto UCD
10 August 2016Cup Play-off Australasia 5-04 - 0-01 Tara UCD
Key to colours
    Advance to Cup Final
    Advance to Shield Final
    Advance to Plate Play-offs
TeamPldWDLPts
Colours of Leitrim.svg Australasia 44008
Colours of Laois.svg Tara43016
Colours of Kilkenny.svg Middle East42024
Colours of Tipperary.svg Europe 41032
Canada Toronto 40040

Native Cup Final

12 August 2016Native Cup Final North America 1-04 - 0-04 Britain Native Croke Park

Cup Final

12 August 2016Cup Final Australasia 5-17 - 1-08 Tara Croke Park

Shield Play-offs

10 August 2016Shield Play-off New York 4-06 - 0-03 Thomas McCurtains UCD
10 August 2016Shield Play-off Croydon 4-04 - 0-00 Britain Native UCD
10 August 2016Shield Play-off North America Native 1-02 - 0-01 Father Murphy's UCD
10 August 2016Shield Play-off Croydon 2-05 - 0-00 North America Native UCD
10 August 2016Shield Play-off Britain Native 0-00 - 3-07 New York UCD
10 August 2016Shield Play-off Thomas McCurtains 4-06 - 0-00 Father Murphy's UCD
10 August 2016Shield Play-off Britain Native 3-01 - 1-02 North America Native UCD
10 August 2016Shield Play-off Thomas McCurtains 1-02 - 3-03 Croydon UCD
10 August 2016Shield Play-off New York 5-04 - 1-01 Father Murphy's UCD
10 August 2016Shield Play-off New York 3-07 - 0-02 North America Native UCD
10 August 2016Shield Play-off Father Murphy's 0-02 - 1-09 Croydon UCD
10 August 2016Shield Play-off Thomas McCurtain's 1-06 - 0-00 Britain Native UCD
10 August 2016Shield Play-off Father Murphy's 2-05 - 0-00 Britain Native UCD
10 August 2016Shield Play-off New York 2-05 - 1-04 Croydon UCD
TeamPldWDLPts
Colours of New York.svg New York 550010
Croydon54018
Colours of Kilkenny.svg Thomas McCurtains 53026
North America Native 51042
Father Murphy's51042
Colours of Fermanagh.svg Britain Native51042

Shield Final

11 August 2016Shield Final New York 4-03 - 3-05 Croydon UCD

Plate Play-offs

Quarter-finals

11 August 2016Plate Quarter-final Middle East 4-14 - 0-01 Britain Native UCD
11 August 2016Plate Quarter-final Canada Toronto 2-11 - 0-01 North America Native UCD
11 August 2016Plate Quarter-final Europe 1-10 - 1-00 Father Murphy's UCD

Semi-finals

11 August 2016Plate Semi-final Middle East 2-07 - 0-04 Europe UCD
11 August 2016Plate Semi-final Canada Toronto 2-07 - 0-04 Thomas McCurtain UCD

Plate Final

11 August 2016Plate Final Middle East 1-07 - 2-03 Canada Toronto UCD

Hurling

Native

9 August 2016First round New York 6-09 - 0-01 Germany UCD
9 August 2016First round New York 3-04 - 1-05 NACB Chicago UCD
9 August 2016First round NACB Chicago 6-08 - 0-04 Germany UCD
9 August 2016First round New York 5-07 - 1-01 Germany UCD
9 August 2016First round New York 1-04 - 2-02 NACB Chicago UCD
9 August 2016First round NACB Chicago 3-06 - 0-01 Germany UCD
10 August 2016First round New York 7-08 - 1-01 Germany UCD
10 August 2016First round New York 0-05 - 1-04 NACB Chicago UCD
10 August 2016First round NACB Chicago 4-09 - 1-02 Germany UCD
Key to colours
    Advance to Cup Final
TeamPldWDLPts
NACB Chicago 650110
Colours of New York.svg New York 64028
Colours of Sligo.svg Germany60068

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12 August 2016Cup Final New York 1-06 - 2-06 NACB Chicago Croke Park

All Final Cup Results

Camogie

Native Cup Final

12 August 2016Native Cup Final North America 1-04 - 0-04 Britain Native Croke Park

Cup Final

12 August 2016Cup Final Australasia 5-17 - 1-08 Tara Croke Park

Ladies Football

Native Cup Final

12 August 2016Native Cup Final New York 2-04 - 0-05 Eastern Canada Croke Park

Cup Final

12 August 2016Cup Final Parnells 3-07 - 0-08 Australasia Croke Park

Hurling

Native Cup Final

12 August 2016NativeCup Final Middle East 2-12 - 2-10 Australasia Croke Park

Cup Final

12 August 2016Cup Final New York 1-06 - 2-06 NACB Chicago Croke Park

Men's Football

Native Cup Final

12 August 2016Native Cup Final New York 4-05 - 1-09 France Croke Park

Cup Final

12 August 2016Cup Final Middle East 1-12 - 1-11 Abu Dhabi Croke Park

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