A BRAND NEW VISION FOR GAELIC FOOTBALL?

MOTION 18

Motion 18 is the first motion on the Clár that relates to the restructuring of the football championship. It is also known as the eight-team Provincial Championship Motion. If passed there would be two phases to the provincial championships. The first phase would see three preliminary rounds played in Leinster and one in Ulster. In Leinster, those preliminary rounds would be played between the six lowest ranked teams at the end of that year’s Allianz League. They would enter three preliminary rounds which would be played at neutral venues and those six teams would play off against each other. The winners of those games would progress to the Leinster Championship proper. Two of the defeated teams in those games would go to the Munster Championship with the other team going to the Connacht Championship.

MOTION 19

Motion 19 will only be voted on if Motion 18 fails. If Motion 18 is passed by more than a 60 per cent majority, there will be no need to debate Motion 19. Motion 19 would envisage using the current League structures as the basis for a restructured All-Ireland SFC. This motion proposes to play the provincial championships before a League-based AllIreland Championship.

What happens if neither Motion 18 nor Motion 19 are passed?

If neither Motion 18 nor Motion 19 are passed, then for 2022 the Central Competitions Control Committee will recommend to the GAA’s Central Council to revert to the current provincial championship structures with qualifiers, the Tailteann Cup, and knockout quarterfinals rather than the round-robin quarterfinals that were in place for the 2018 and 2019 campaigns.