The 2018 Ulster Senior Football Championship was the 130th instalment of the annual

Ulster Senior Football Championship The Ulster Senior Football Championship is an inter-county competition for Gaelic football teams in the Irish province of Ulster. It is organised by the Ulster Council of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) and begins in April. The final is ...

organised by

Ulster GAA The Ulster Council () is a provincial council of the Gaelic Athletic Association sports of hurling, Gaelic football, camogie, and handball in the province of Ulster. The headquarters of the Ulster GAA is based in the city of Armagh. The fir ...

. It is one of the four provincial competitions of the

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. The winners receive The Anglo-Celt Cup. The draw for the championship was made on 19 October 2017. Tyrone were the defending champions, though were eliminated in the quarter-finals. The championship was won by Donegal who defeated

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in the final. Donegal full-forward

Patrick McBrearty Patrick McBrearty (born 5 August 1993) is an Irish Gaelic footballer who plays for CLG Chill Chartha, Cill Chartha and the Donegal county football team, Donegal county team, which he has captained since 2023. He is usually selected in the full ...

suffered a season-ending cruciate ligament injury in the final. DUP leader

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notably attended the final.

Teams

The Ulster championship is contested by the nine

county team A county is a geographic region within Gaelic games, controlled by a county board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) and originally based on the 32 counties of Ireland as they were in 1884. While the administrative geography of Ireland has ...

s in the province of

Ulster Ulster (; or ; or ''Ulster'') is one of the four traditional or historic provinces of Ireland, Irish provinces. It is made up of nine Counties of Ireland, counties: six of these constitute Northern Ireland (a part of the United Kingdom); t ...

Championship draw

Preliminary round

Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Final

2018 Irish News Ulster Allstars

# Rory Beggan (Monaghan) #

Pádraig Hampsey Pádraig Hampsey (born 15 April 1994) is a Gaelic footballer who plays for the Coalisland club and the Tyrone county team. He started at corner-back for Tyrone in the 2018 All-Ireland Final defeat to Dublin. In May 2021, he was named capt ...

(Tyrone) # Drew Wylie (Monaghan) # Ryan Wylie (Monaghan) # Eoghan Bán Gallagher (Donegal) # Mattie Donnelly (Tyrone) #

Karl O'Connell Karl O'Connell is a Gaelic footballer who plays at senior level for the Monaghan county team. On 25 October 2017, O'Connell was named in the Ireland squad for the 2017 International Rules Series against Australia Australia, official ...

(Monaghan) # Colm Cavanagh (Tyrone) # Michael Murphy (Donegal) # Ryan McAnespie (Monaghan) # Niall Sludden (Tyrone) #

Ryan McHugh Ryan McHugh (born 11 April 1994) is an Irish Gaelic footballer who plays for Cill Chartha and the Donegal county team. He is the brother of Mark and the son of Martin. A former county minor, McHugh propelled himself onto the national stage in ...

(Donegal) # Connor McAliskey (Tyrone) #

Seán Quigley Seán Quigley (born 1992) is a Gaelic footballer whose league and championship career at senior level with the Fermanagh county team began with his debut in 2011. He is from Roslea, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. Career Quigley plays his ...

(Fermanagh) #

Conor McManus Vincent Conor McManus is a Gaelic footballer who formerly played at senior level for the Monaghan county team. Often referred to as one of his county's best-ever players, he is Monaghan's top scorer in National Football League history. After ...

(Monaghan)

References

External links

* http://ulster.gaa.ie/ {{GAA 2018 2U 2018 in Northern Ireland sport Ulster Senior Football Championship