2009 Ulster Senior Football Championship

The 2009 Ulster Senior Football Championship was the 121st^[1] installment of the annual Ulster Senior Football Championship held under the auspices of the Ulster GAA. It was won by Tyrone who defeated Antrim in the final. Antrim were appearing in their first final since 1970.^[2] The winning Tyrone team received the Anglo-Celt Cup, and automatically advanced to the quarter-final stage of the 2009 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship.

Championship venues

Celtic Park in the City of Derry

Healy Park in Omagh

St Tiernach's Park in Clones

and others elsewhere...

Teams who lost at the preliminary round, quarter-final or semi-final stages entered Round 1 of the All-Ireland Qualifiers. The beaten Ulster finalists entered at Round 3. Successfully advancing through the Qualifiers allowed a team to reach the All-Ireland quarter-finals.

The draw for the 2009 Ulster Senior Football Championship was made along with the other three provincial draws on 8 October 2008 at Croke Park in Dublin.^[3]

Bracket

Preliminary round

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Derry

1–10

Monaghan

0–10

Derry

0–07

Tyrone

0–15

Tyrone

2–10

Armagh

1–10

Tyrone

1–18

Antrim

0–15

Donegal

0–12

Antrim

1–10

Antrim

0–13

Cavan

1–07

Cavan

0–13

Fermanagh

1–09

Fermanagh

0–13

Down

0–10

• Source: Ulster GAA Council

Preliminary round

17 May 2009

3.30pm

Fermanagh	–	Down
0–13		0–10

Brewster Park, Enniskillen

Referee: John Bannon (Longford)

Quarter-finals

24 May 2009

2.00pm

Derry	–	Monaghan
1–10		0–10

Celtic Park, Derry

Referee: J White (Donegal)

31 May 2009

2.00pm

Tyrone	–	Armagh
2–10		1–10

St Tiernach's Park, Clones

Referee: Pat McEnaney (Monaghan)

6 June 2009

7.00pm

Cavan	–	Fermanagh
0–13		1-09

Breffni Park, Cavan

Referee: R Hickey (Clare)

14 June 2009

3.30pm

Donegal	–	Antrim
0–12		1–10

MacCumhaill Park, Ballybofey

Referee: P Hughes (Armagh)

Semi-finals

21 June 2009

2.00pm

Derry	–	Tyrone
0-07		0–15

Casement Park, Belfast

Referee: G O Conamha (Galway)

27 June 2009

7.00pm

Cavan	–	Antrim
1-07		0–13

St Tiernach's Park, Clones

Referee: J Bannon (Longford)

Final

19 July 2009

2.00pm

Tyrone	–	Antrim
1–18		0–15

St Tiernach's Park, Clones

Referee: P Hughes (Armagh)

References

1. "Summer begins with the Ulster GAA Championships". 1 May 2013. Retrieved 1 May 2013. 2013 marks the 125th Anniversary of the Ulster Football Championship and the Ulster Museum in Botanic Gardens was transformed into an exhibition of Ulster's finest memories over those 125 years.
2. "Harte: No easy draw in Ulster Championship". BreakingNews.ie. 31 October 2009. Retrieved 31 October 2009.
3. Woods, Ciaran (10 October 2008). "Draw reunites rivals". Gaelic Life. p. 7. Retrieved 18 November 2008. ^{[dead link]}

External links

• Ulster GAA website