The 2020 Leinster Senior Football Championship is the 2020 iteration of

Leinster Senior Football Championship The Leinster Senior Football Championship, known simply as the Leinster Championship and shortened to Leinster SFC, is an annual inter-county Gaelic football competition organised by the Leinster Council of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GA ...

organised by Leinster GAA. The tournament was won by

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, their 59th Leinster championship, and tenth in a row, en route to their sixth consecutive All-Ireland title.

Teams

The Leinster championship was contested by 11 of the 12

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s in

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, a province of Ireland. Kilkenny was the only county team not to compete. (i) = interim Shane Roche was originally a

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but was appointed

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after Paul Galvin left suddenly in September 2020. Roche was formally ratified for a two-year term as manager in January 2021.

Championship draw

The draw for the preliminary rounds and quarter-finals was released by Leinster GAA on 7 October 2019. In a change to previous years' championships, a separate draw for the semi-finals was due to take place once the quarter final ties had been played, however, due to the

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and the resultant rescheduling of the

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, the draw for the Semi-Finals was made on 26 June 2020.

Matches

Preliminary round

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

References

External links

* http://www.leinstergaa.ie/ {{GAA 2020 2L Leinster Championship Leinster Senior Football Championship