2016 Tipperary county football team season

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Tipperary county football team
2016 season
Manager Liam Kearns
Captain Peter Acheson
All-Ireland SFC Semi-finalist
Munster SFC Finalist
NFL D3 6th
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The 2016 season was Liam Kearns's first year as manager of the senior Tipperary county football team.

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Tipperary recorded their first victory over Cork in the Munster Senior Football Championship since 1944 and reached the All-Ireland semi-finals for the first time since 1935.

In November 2015, Liam Kearns had been named as the new manager of the senior Tipperary county football team. [1] [2] [3]

Intersport/Elverys continued as sponsors of Tipperary GAA for the second year. The Tipperary jersey for the 2016 season was the same as was used in 2015 and displayed the Intersport brand name on the front and their co-sponsor Elvery’s name on the back. [4]

On 3 November 2016, Michael Quinlivan won Tipperary's first All-Star award since 2003, being picked in the full-forward position. Evan Comerford, Robbie Kiely, Peter Acheson, and Conor Sweeney were also nominated. Josh Keane and Jimmy Feehan were also nominated for the GAA/GPA Young Footballer of the Year award. [5] [6] Quinlivan became just the second Tipperary footballer to claim an All Star, joining Declan Browne who won the awards in 1998 and 2003. [7]

Squad

No.PlayerPositionClub
1 Evan Comerford Goalkeeper Kilsheelan-Kilcash
2 Colm O'Shaughnessy Right Corner Back Ardfinnan
3 Alan Campbell Full back Moyle Rovers
4 Ciarán McDonald Left Corner Back Aherlow
5 Bill Maher Right half back Kilsheelan-Kilcash
6 Robbie Kiely Centre back Carbery Rangers
7 Jimmy Feehan Left half back Killenaule
8 Peter Acheson (c) Midfield Moyle Rovers
9 George Hannigan Midfield Shannon Rovers
10 Josh Keane Right half Forward Golden-Kilfeacle
11 Michael Quinlivan Centre forward Clonmel Commercials
12 Brian Fox Left half Forward Éire Óg, Annacarty
13 Kevin O'Halloran Right Corner Forward Portroe
14 Conor Sweeney Full forward Ballyporeen
15 Philip Austin Left Corner Forward Borrisokane
No.PlayerPositionClub
16Ciarán Kenrick Substitiute Moyle Rovers
17Alan Moloney Substitiute Rockwell Rovers
18Shane Leahy Substitiute Arravale Rovers
19Martin Dunne Substitiute Moyle Rovers
20Billy Hewitt Substitiute Ardfinnan
21Mark Hanley Substitiute Aherlow
22 Ian Fahey Substitiute Clonmel Commercials
23Donal Lynch Substitiute Clonmel Commercials
24John O'Callaghan Substitiute Ballyporeen
25Donough Leahy Substitiute Arravale Rovers
26Shane O'Connell Substitiute Golden-Kilfeacle

Management

Competitions

National Football League

  Compete in Division 3 final and automatic promotion to Division 2
  Automatic relegation to Division 4

TeamPldWDLFADiffPts
Colours of Kildare.svg Kildare 760110-926-733112
Colours of Clare.svg Clare 74037-953-81268
Colours of Offaly.svg Offaly 74033-855-80-18
Colours of Longford.svg Longford 74033-887-82-68
Colours of Sligo.svg Sligo 73138-8410-85-77
Colours of Tipperary.svg Tipperary 723212-605-90-97
Colours of Westmeath.svg Westmeath 72145-765-7515
Colours of Limerick.svg Limerick 70164-7311-87-351

1Clare, Offaly and Longford are ranked by scoring difference.

2Sligo are ranked ahead of Tipperary by scoring difference as the head-to-head between the teams was a draw.

31/01/16
Round 1		 Limerick Colours of Limerick.svg 1-12 - 2-9 Tipperary Colours of Tipperary.svg Gaelic Grounds, Limerick
Referee: B Cawley
I Ryan (0-9), P Nash (1-0), S Buckley (0-2), S Cahill (0-1) Report C Sweeney (0-4), P Acheson (1-1), J Keane (1-0), P Austin (0-2), A Maloney (0-1), M Dunne (0-1)
07/02/16
Round 2		 Tipperary Colours of Tipperary.svg 2-7 - 1-7 Clare Colours of Clare.svg Clonmel GAA Ground, Clonmel
Referee: P O'Sullivan
P Austin (0-4), B Fox (1-1), C Sweeney (1-0), J Keane (0-1), P Acheson (0-1) Report D Tubridy (0-3), J Malone (1-0), E Cleary (0-2), G Brennan (0-2)
28/02/16
Round 3		 Westmeath Colours of Westmeath.svg 0-11 - 1-8 Tipperary Colours of Tipperary.svg Cusack Park, Mullingar
Referee: F Barry
J Connellan (0-3), J Heslin (0-3), K Martin (0-3), J Egan (0-1), S Dempsey (0-1) Report A Maloney (0-3), R Kiely (1-0), C Sweeney (0-2), B Fox (0-1), M Quinlivan (0-1), S Leahy (0-1)
06/03/16
Round 4		 Tipperary Colours of Tipperary.svg 2-11 - 0-12 Offaly Colours of Offaly.svg Sean Treacy Park, Tipperary
Referee: J Molloy
M Quinlivan (1-4), C Sweeney (0-6), M Dunne (1-0), P Austin (0-1) Report N Dunne (0-4), N McNamee (0-3), S Doyle (0-3), B Allen (0-1), S Pender (0-1)
13/03/16
Round 5		 Longford Colours of Longford.svg 1-17 - 1-11 Tipperary Colours of Tipperary.svg Pearse Park, Longford
Referee: S McLaughlin
B Kavanagh (0-8), J McGivney (0-5), L Moran (1-0), B McKeon (0-1), D Gallagher (0-1), L Connerton (0-1), M Hughes (0-1) Report C Sweeney (0-6), M Quinlivan (0-4), J Lonergan (1-1)
26/03/16
Round 6		 Tipperary Colours of Tipperary.svg 1-5 - 2-13 Kildare Colours of Kildare.svg Semple Stadium, Thurles
Referee: N Mooney
K Fahey (1-1), A Moloney (0-2), M Quinlivan (0-1), P Austin (0-1) Report D Flynn (1-2), A Tyrrell (0-3), E O'Flaherty (0-3), N Kelly (1-0), P Cribbin (0-2), T Moolick (0-2), E Callaghan (0-1)
03/04/16
Round 7		 Sligo Colours of Sligo.svg 0-18 - 3-9 Tipperary Colours of Tipperary.svg Markievicz Park, Sligo
Referee: N McKenna
N Murphy (0-7), A Marren (0-4), K Cawley (0-3), B Egan (0-1), M Breheny (0-1), N Ewing (0-1), N Gaughan (0-1) Report A Moloney (1-3), P Acheson (1-1), M Quinlivan (1-0), C Sweeney (0-2), E Comer (0-1), J Lonergan (0-1), K Fahey (0-1)

Munster Senior Football Championship

Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final
Colours of Clare.svg Clare 0-16
Colours of Limerick.svg Limerick 0-13 Colours of Clare.svg Clare 0-17
Colours of Kerry.svg Kerry 2-23
Colours of Kerry.svg Kerry 3-17
Colours of Tipperary.svg Tipperary 2-10
Colours of Cork.svg Cork 2-16
Colours of Waterford.svg Waterford 1-07 Colours of Tipperary.svg Tipperary 3-15
Colours of Tipperary.svg Tipperary 1-15

Summary

In June 2016, Tipperary reached the Munster final after a 3-15 to 2-16 win against Cork. They lost the Munster final to Kerry by 3-17 to 2-10 in a game which was shown live on RTÉ One.

First round
Colours of Waterford.svg Waterford 1-7 - 1-15 Colours of Tipperary.svg Tipperary
P Whyte (1-5, 0-3 frees, 0-1 ’45); G Crotty, T Prendergast (0-1 each). Report M Quinlivan (0-4); G Hannigan, P Acheson (0-3 each); M O’Gorman (1-0 OG); K O’Halloran (0-2, 0-2 frees); M Dunne, C O’Shaughnessy, B Fox (0-1 each).
Attendance: 1,753
Referee: D Gough (Meath)
Semi Final
Colours of Cork.svg Cork 2-16 - 3-15 Colours of Tipperary.svg Tipperary
M Collins 2-1, D O'Connor (3fs), P Kerrigan (1f) 0-3 each, C Dorman, C O'Neill (2fs), D Goulding (1f) 0-2 each, B Hurley, J O'Rourke, P Kelleher 0-1 each. Report M Quinlivan 1-3 (0-1f), K O'Halloran 0-7 (3fs, 2 45s), B Fox 1-1, C Sweeney 1-0, P Acheson 0-2, C McDonald, B Maher 0-1 each.
Attendance: 2,734
Referee: P Neilan (Roscommon)
  • Tipperary's last victory over Cork in the Munster Senior Football Championship was in 1944. [8]
Final
Colours of Kerry.svg Kerry 3-17 - 2-10 Colours of Tipperary.svg Tipperary
Paul Geaney 2-3, Paul Murphy 1-1, Bryan Sheehan (0-4f), James O’Donoghue (0-3f) 0-4 each, Barry John Keane, Mikey Geaney, Killian Young, Darran O’Sullivan, Stephen O’Brien 0-1 each Report Kevin O’Halloran 0-6 (0-4f, 0-1 ’45), Jimmy Feehan, Robbie Kiely 1-0 each, Michael Quinlivan 0-3 (0-2f), Alan Moloney 0-1
Attendance: 21,512

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

Summary

Tipperary went on to defeat Derry by 1-21 to 2-17 in round 4A of the qualifiers to reach the All Ireland Quarter-finals for the first time. [9] On 31 July 2016, Tipperary defeated Galway by 3-13 to 1-10 in the 2016 All-Ireland Quarter-finals at Croke Park as they reached their first All-Ireland semi-final since 1935. [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20]

On 21 August 2016, Tipperary were beaten in the semi-final by Mayo on a 2-13 to 0-14 scoreline. In the first half of the match Robbie Kiely received a black card after ten minutes for pulling on the jersey of Jason Doherty which the referee David Coldrick deemed as a cynical foul. Former players including Jim McGuinness and Peter Canavan have said that the black card was a wrong decision by the referee. The Derry game was shown live on Sky Sports with the Galway game shown live on RTÉ One. The Mayo game was shown live on RTÉ One and Sky Sports. [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26]

Round 4A
Colours of Derry.svg Derry 2-17 - 1-21 Colours of Tipperary.svg Tipperary
M. Lynch (1-4, 0-3 frees); D. Heavron (0-4); N. Loughlin (0-3); E. Brown (1-0); J. Kielt (0-2, 1 free); E. Lynn, E. Bradley, L. McGoldrick, C. Bradley (0-1 each). Report K. O’Halloran (1-5, 0-4 frees, 0-1 45); M. Quinlivan (0-6, 4 frees); C. Sweeney (0-5); J. Keane (0-2); P. Austin, P. Acheson, B. Maher (0-1 each).
Attendance: 2,795
Referee: M. Duffy (Sligo)
Colours of Galway.svg Galway 1-10 - 3-13 Colours of Tipperary.svg Tipperary
S Walsh 0-4 (4fs), D Comer 1-0, D Cummins 0-3, E Brannigan 0-1, P Conroy 0-1, P Varley 0-1 Report C Sweeney 2-2, M Quinlivan 1-4 (1f), K O'Halloran 0-4 (2fs, 145), B Fox 0-1, R Kiely 0-1, P Acheson 0-1
Attendance: 29,251
Referee: C Lane (Cork)
Colours of Mayo.svg Mayo 2-13 - 0-14 Colours of Tipperary.svg Tipperary
A. Moran (0-4); J. Doherty, C. O’Shea (1-0 each); C. O’Connor (0-3, frees); D. O’Connor (0-2); K. McLoughlin, L. Keegan, A. O’Shea, C. Boyle (0-1 each). Report M. Quinlivan (0-7, frees); C. Sweeney (0-3, 1 free); K. O’Halloran (0-2, frees); P. Austin, B. Maher (0-1 each).
Attendance: 53,212
Referee: David Coldrick (Meath)

See also

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