Winners Monaghan (1st win) Runners-up Armagh | Captain Eugene Sherry | |
Dates October 1984 – 7 April 1985 | ||
The 1984–85 National Football League was the 54th staging of the National Football League (NFL), an annual Gaelic football tournament for the Gaelic Athletic Association county teams of Ireland.
Contents
- Format
- Divisions
- Round Robin Format
- Points awarded
- Titles
- Knockout stage qualifiers
- Knockout phase structure
- Promotion and Relegation
- Separation of teams on equal points
- Play Offs
- References
Monaghan won their first and only national title with a win over Armagh in the final.
Format
This was the final year of the NFL in its present format before a move to a three division league for the 1985–86 NFL.
Divisions
Round-Robin Format
Each team played every other team in its division (or group where the division is split) once, either home or away.
Points awarded
2 points were awarded for a win and 1 for a draw.
Titles
Teams in all four divisions competed for the National Football League title.
Knockout stage qualifiers
Knockout phase structure
In the Quarter-Finals, the match-ups were as follows:
The semi-final match-ups are:
The final match-up is: Winner Semi-final 1 v Winner Semi-final 2.
Promotion and Relegation
When the NFL was played, relegation was to be as follows:
The change in format agreed in advance of the 1985–86 NFL meant that promotion and relegation was as follows:
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.
Play-Offs
This result was to relegate Wicklow to Division Four of the 1985–86 NFL. The play-off turned out to be redundant because of the restructure to the league, and both teams were in Division Three of the 1985–86 NFL.