Winners Galway (3rd win) Runners-up Roscommon | Captain Barry Brennan Captain Danny Murray | |
Dates October 1980 – 10 May 1981 | ||
The 1980–81 National Football League was the 50th staging of the National Football League (NFL), an annual Gaelic football tournament for the Gaelic Athletic Association county teams of Ireland.
Contents
- Titles
- Divisions
- Round Robin Format
- Points awarded
- Knockout stage qualifiers
- Knockout phase structure
- Separation of teams on equal points
- References
Galway defeated Roscommon in an all-Connacht final.
Titles
Teams in all four divisions competed for one league title.
Divisions
Round-Robin Format
Each team played every other team in its division once, either home or away.
Points awarded
2 points were awarded for a win and 1 for a draw.
Knockout stage qualifiers
Knockout phase structure
In the Preliminary Quarter-Finals, the match-ups were as follows
In the Quarter-Finals, the match-ups were as follows
The semi-final match-ups are:
Separation of teams on equal points
In the event that teams finish on equal points, then a play-off will be used to determine group placings if necessary, i.e. where to decide relegation places or quarter-finalists.