The 2009

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was the inter-county

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tournament played between 31 counties of Ireland,

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. The draw for the 2009 championship took place on 9 October 2008. The tournament began on 10 May 2009. The 2009 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final took place on 20 September 2009, contested by

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and Kerry. This was the year Tadhg Kennelly made history by becoming the first person to ever hold

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and All-Ireland winning medals in the sports of

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and Gaelic football—he previously won the biggest prize in Australian rules with

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in 2005.

Structure

*Four knockout (single elimination format) provincial championships are played.

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compete in Connacht. The 4 provincial champions advance to the All-Ireland quarter-finals. *The 16 teams eliminated before reaching a provincial semi-final compete in Round One of the Qualifiers (New York do not compete in the Qualifiers). The 8 Round One winners advance to Round Two. *Qualifiers, Round Two: The 8 teams eliminated in provincial semi-finals each play one of the 8 Round One winners. *Qualifiers, Round Three: The 8 Round Two winners play off to reduce the number to 4. *Qualifiers, Round Four: The 4 teams eliminated in provincial finals each play one of the 4 Round Three winners. *All-Ireland Quarter-finals: The 4 provincial champions each play one of the 4 Round Four winners. *The winners of the All-Ireland Quarter-finals then advance to the Semi-finals, and the winners of the Semi-finals go on to the 2009 All-Ireland final.

Fixtures and results

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 GAA, Leinster Council of the Gaelic Athletic Asso ...

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

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Connacht Senior Football Championship The Connacht Senior Football Championship, known simply as the Connacht Championship and shortened to Connacht SFC, is an annual Gaelic football competition for the senior county teams of Connacht GAA. All of the county teams of Connacht particip ...

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All-Ireland qualifiers

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

A draw was made for round 3 of the qualifiers, with the winners of round 2 playing each other.

Round 4

A draw was made for round 4 of the qualifiers, with the winners of round three ( Donegal, Kerry,

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) playing against the losing provincial finalists ( Antrim,

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All-Ireland series

Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Final

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

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met in the Munster final for the first time since

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reached round 4 of the qualifiers, winning four championship games for the first time in their history. * Mayo and

met for the first time in the championship since the 1996 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final.