2020 Tyrone Senior Football Championship

Tyrone SFC

Season	2020
Champions	Dungannon Thomas Clarkes (11th Title)
Relegated	None
Winning Captain	???
Man Of The Match	???
Winning Manager	???
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The 2020 Tyrone Senior Football Championship is the 115th edition of Tyrone GAA's premier gaelic football tournament for clubs in Tyrone Senior Football League Division 1. 16 teams compete with the winners receiving the O'Neill Cup and representing Tyrone in the Ulster Senior Club Football Championship.

Trillick St. Macartan's were the defending champions after they defeated Errigal Ciarán in the 2019 final. However the defence of their title came undone at the ??? stage when losing to ???. ^[1]

Galbally Pearses, Pomeroy Plunkett's and Loughmacrory St. Teresa's returned to senior championship football in 2020. ^[2]

??? made the straight drop back down to the Intermediate ranks when finishing bottom of the 2020 S.F.L. They were followed by ??? who lost their S.F.L. Relegation Playoff to ???, who in turn were then relegated after losing their SFL/IFL promotion/relegation playoff to ???. I.F.C. and I.F.L. champions ??? and I.F.L. runners-up ??? will also replace these relegated teams in 2021.

On 4 October 2020, ??? claimed their 8th S.F.C. crown and their first triumph since ??? when defeating ??? by ??? in the final at Healy Park.

The draw for the 2020 S.F.C. was made on 21 February 2020. ^[3]

Format

The championship has a straight knock out structure. The 16 teams that take part in the championship are the 16 teams in the Senior Football League (SFL). The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic has effected relegation and promotion from the S.F.C. and I.F.C. in the following ways: ^{[4] [5] [6] [7] [8]}

Relegation from SFC:

In 2020, it was decided that no club would be relegated from the S.F.C. ^[9]

Promotion to SFC:

Two teams will be promoted to the S.F.C. for 2021, meaning that 18 teams will compete for the Tyrone S.F.C. in 2021. The I.F.C. champions and the I.F.L. champions will gain promotion to the top-flight.

Team Changes

The following teams have changed division since the 2019 championship season.

To S.F.C. Promoted from 2019 Tyrone I.F.C. Galbally Pearses - (IFC & IFL Champions) Pomeroy Plunkett's - (IFL Runners-up) Loughmacrory St. Teresa's - (SFL/IFL promotion/relegation playoff Winner)

From S.F.C. Relegated to 2020 I.F.C. [10] Eglish St. Patrick's - (SFL/IFL promotion/relegation playoff Loser) Edendork St. Malachy's - (SFL Relegation Loser) Tattyreagh St. Patrick's - (16th in SFL)

Round 1

All 16 teams enter Round 1 in a random open draw. The 8 losers are eliminated from the championship while the 8 winners proceed to the quarter-finals.

13 August 2020	Coalisland	2-14 - 1-14	Clonoe O'Rahilly's	Edendork Referee: Sean Hurson (Galbally) Man of the Match: Plunkett Kane
	Plunkett Kane 1-3, Bailey Leonard 1-2 (0-1f), Tiarnan Quinn 0-3 (0-2f), Cormac O'Hagan (1 '45) and Patrick McNiece 0-2 each, Jason Carberry and Sean Corr 0-1 each		Connor McAliskey 0-6 (0-5f), Daryl Magee 1-0, Ryan McCabe 0-2, Rhys Quinn, Patrick Doris, Stephen McNulty (0-1f), Declan McClure, PJ Lavery, Paul Coney 0-1 each

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14 August 2020	Killyclogher	2-13 - 2-10	Carrickmore	Healy Park Referee: Stephen Campbell (Stewartstown) Man of the Match: Mark Bradley
	Mark Bradley 1-8 (0-3f), Mark Hayes 1-0, Tiernan McCann 0-2, Conall McCann, Oisin McCann, Tiernan Cox 0-1 each		Martin Penrose 1-2 (0-1f), Michael Donaghy 1-0, Rory Donnelly and Daniel Fullerton 0-2 each, Sean Loughran, Ciaran Daly, Ruairi Loughran, Barry Daly 0-1 each

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15 August 2020	Dungannon	2-23 - 2-13 aet	Loughmacrory	Galbally Referee: Martin Sludden (Dromore) Man of the Match: Paul Donaghy
	Paul Donaghy 0-9 (0-4f), Patrick Quinn 1-2 (0-1m), Lorcan Mallon 0-4 (0-1m), Kiefer Morgan 1-1, Matthew Walsh 0-2, Ciaran Barker (0-1f), Padraig McNulty, Oran Mallon, Patrick Molloy, Dalaigh Jones 0-1 each		Cathair Gallagher 2-3 (0-1f, 0-1m), Cathal Donnelly 0-4 (0-1m), Diarmuid Gallagher 0-2, Pauric Meenagh, Colm Logue, Ciaran Ward, Leo Meenan 0-1 each

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15 August 2020	Ardboe	0-17 - 3-7	Donaghmore	Coalisland Referee: Shane Eanetta (Omagh) Man of the Match: Shea Hamill
	Kyle Coney 0-7 (0-6f), Conall Devlin and David Mulgrew (0-1m) 0-2 each, Ciaran Gervin, Michael Cassidy, Shay McGuigan, Oran Mulgrew, Michael Lynn, Cormac Morgan 0-1 each		Shea Hamill, Tiarnan Drayne, Dermot McAleer 1-0 each, Cormac McCann 0-3f, Peter McKenna, Niall McKenna, Deasun Quinn (0-1f), Ryan Cush 0-1 each

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16 August 2020	Derrylaughan	2-10 - 0-15	Moy	Dungannon Referee: Brian McCallion (Castlederg) Man of the Match: Michael Conroy
	James Donnelly 0-5 (0-3f), Conor McCabe and Brian Kennedy 1-0 each, Ciaran Quinn and Darragh Carney (0-1f) 0-2 each, Ciaran Gervin 0-1		Michael Conroy 0-13 (0-8f), Sean Cavanagh (0-1f) and Michael Carson 0-1 each

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16 August 2020	Dromore	3-15 - 2-13 aet	Omagh	Loughmacrory Referee: Shane Meehan (Glenelly) Man of the Match: Peter Teague
	Eoin McCusker 1-3 (0-2f), Peter Teague 0-4 (0-2f), Niall Sludden and Andrew McGrath 1-0 each, Emmett McNabb (1 '45) and Sean McDonnell (0-2f) 0-2 each, Nathan McCarron, Ryan McCusker, Sean McNabb, Ronan Magpie McNabb 0-1 each		Ronan O'Neill 1-7 (1-0 pen, 0-5f), Damian McGuigan 1-1, Conor O'Donnell 0-2, Michael Gallagher, Daniel McCrossan, Michael Flanagan 0-1 each

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16 August 2020	Errigal Ciarán	1-20 - 0-11	Pomeroy	Carrickmore Referee: Mark O'Neill (Cookstown) Man of the Match: Aaron McAnenly
	Odhran Robinson 1-4, Peter Harte 0-5 (0-2f, 1 '45), Cathal Corrigan and Padraig McGirr (0-1f, 0-1m) 0-3 each, Niall Kelly 0-2, Ben McDonnell (0-1m) and Mark Kavanagh 0-1 each		Kieran McGeary 0-7f, Hugh Pat McGeary and Ronan Duffin 0-2 each

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17 August 2020	Trillick	1-9 - 0-7	Galbally	Healy Park Referee: Cathal Forbes (Ardboe) Man of the Match: James Garrity
	Lee Brennan 0-6 (0-3f, 1 '45), Simon Garrity 1-0, Richard Donnelly, Liam Gray, Ciaran Daly 0-1 each		Liam Rafferty, Conor Donaghy (0-1f), Daniel Kerr 0-2 each, Enda McGarrity 0-1

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Quarter-finals

28 August 2020	Trillick	1-16 - 2-13 aet (Trillick won 4-3 on penalties)	Killyclogher	Healy Park

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29 August 2020	Coalisland	1-9 - 1-6	Derrylaughan	Galbally

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30 August 2020	Dungannon	0-23 - 2-15	Ardboe	Edendork

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30 August 2020	Errigal Ciarán	0-12 - 0-11	Dromore	Carrickmore

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Semi-finals

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Semi-Final

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Semi-Final

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Final

?? September 2020

Final

???	-vs-	???

Healy Park

Ulster Senior Club Football Championship

Main article: 2020–21 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship

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