2025 Down county football team season

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Down county football team
2025 season
Manager Conor Laverty
Stadium Páirc Esler, Newry
  2024
2026  

The following is a summary of Down county football team's 2025 season.

Contents

Competitions

Down are due to compete in the National Football League Division 2, the Ulster Championship the All Ireland Senior Football Championship during the 2025 season. On 7 September it was announced that the McKenna Cup would not take place in 2025. [1]

National Football League Division 2

Official fixtures for the 2025 National League were announced on 5 December 2024. [2] [3]

Fixtures

  Win  Draw  Loss  Postponed/Cancelled

DateRoundHomeScoreAwayGroundRef
Sunday 26 JanuaryGroup Roscommon 3-21 v 1-20 Down Dr Hyde Park, Roscommon [4]
Sunday 2 FebruaryGroup Down 1-19 v 2-15 Cork Páirc Esler, Newry [5]
Saturday 15 FebruaryGroup Down Meath Páirc Esler, Newry
Sunday 23 FebruaryGroup Louth Down DEFY Páirc Mhuire, Ardee
Saturday 1 MarchGroup Cavan Down Breffni Park, Cavan
Saturday 15 MarchGroup Down Westmeath Páirc Esler, Newry
Sunday 23 MarchGroup Monaghan Down St Tiernach's Park, Clones

Table

PosTeamPldWDLPFPAPDPtsQualification
1 Colours of Monaghan.svg Monaghan 22006347+164Advance to NFL Division 2 Final and
promotion to 2026 NFL Division 1
2 Colours of Roscommon.svg Roscommon 22005041+94
3 Colours of Meath.svg Meath 21015145+62
4 Colours of Cork.svg Cork 21014643+32
5 Colours of Louth.svg Louth 2101383802
6 Colours of Down.svg Down 2101455162
7 Colours of Westmeath.svg Westmeath 20024555100Relegation to 2026 NFL Division 3
8 Colours of Cavan.svg Cavan 20024058180
First match(es) will be played: January 2025. Source: GAA.ie
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Reports

Round 1
Roscommon Colours of Roscommon.svg 3-21 - 1-20Down Colours of Down.svg
Diarmuid Murtagh (0-07), Ciaráin Murtagh (1-02), Enda Smith (1-01), Cian McKeon (1-01), Daire Cregg (0-04), Shane Cunnane (0-02), Ben O’Carroll (0-01), Donie Smith (0-01), Eddie Nolan (0-01), Shane Killoran (0-01) Report Pat Havern (0-11), Ryan McEvoy (1-02), James Guinness (0-02), Danny Magill (0-02), Gareth McKibben (0-01), Paddy McCarthy (0-01), Odhran Murdock (0-01)
Dr Hyde Park, Roscommon
Referee: Niall Cullen (Fermanagh)

Ulster Senior Football Championship

The draw for the 2025 Ulster Championship took place in October 2024. [6] [7]

Fixtures

Quarter Final
Fermanagh Colours of Fermanagh.svg v Colours of Down.svg Down

Bracket

Quarter-Finals Semi-Finals Final
Colours of Antrim.svg Antrim
Colours of Armagh.svg Armagh 0-09
Quarter-final winner
Quarter-final winner
Colours of Tyrone.svg Tyrone 0-09
Colours of Cavan.svg Cavan
Semi-final winner
Semi-final winner
Colours of Fermanagh.svg Fermanagh
Colours of Down.svg Down
Quarter-final winner
Colours of Donegal.svg Donegal Quarter-final winner
Colours of Derry.svg Derry Colours of Monaghan.svg Monaghan
Preliminary winner

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

Having won the 2024 Tailteann Cup, Down are due to re-enter the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship for the first time in six years. [8]

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  7. "Provincial SFC 2025 draws: Donegal to face rivals Derry in Ulster preliminary round". Irish Independent . 12 October 2024.
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