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2009 All Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship

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Teams
  
16

Runners-up
  
Dublin

Winners
  
Cork (5th win)

Matches Played
  
16

Dates
  
26 July – 27 September 2009

The 2009 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship was held between July 26 and September 27, 2009. Cork were the winners for the fifth season in a row.

Contents

Structure

  • Sixteen teams compete.
  • The top four teams from 2008 receive byes to the quarter-finals.
  • The quarter-finalists from 2008 receive byes to the second round.
  • The other eight teams play in the first round.
  • All games are knockout matches, drawn games being replayed.
  • The first-round losers playoff, with one team being relegated to the intermediate championship for 2010. Teams must spend two years as a senior team before they are eligible for relegation; teams that have not done so are exempt from relegation.

    • Relegation match

    Tipperary and Leitrim were exempt from relegation.

    Donegal are relegated to the Intermediate Ladies' Football Championship for 2010.

    References

    2009 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship Wikipedia
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