Kerry GAA fixtures formats

FOOTBALL

District Championships

The Committee in Charge of the District Championships remain the respective District Boards with the following exceptional conditions only in place for this year’s championships and only there if required to support the local Board. All disciplinary issues, referee appointments, notification of fixtures, etc, remain the responsibility of the District Boards.

• All District Boards to co-ordinate their Championship Draws & Fixtures with the County Board CCC.

• District Boards only allowed to organise Senior District Championships. Requests to organise Senior Leagues, Juvenile competitions including tournaments or blitzes would need the prior approval of the County Board CCC.

• The County Board CCC may and without the agreement of the respective District Board or teams involved bring forward or postpone a District Championship fixture, unless agreed by both the respective District Board and the County Board CCC, no team will be fixed to play in the district championship while still having players involved in Senior Football County Championship.

• There is no compulsion on District Boards to complete their championships within the designated club window period. The objective is to try where possible, to progress the competitions down to the closing stages i.e. semi-finals or finals before the inter-county season kicks in, in more cases it may be possible to finish the competition.

Junior Football Leagues

Groups of 4 with each team playing three games. The relative strength of teams par ticipating plus geographical considerations will be taken into account when deciding each group. Par ticipation will be by invitation, with ‘B’ and ‘C’ teams facilitated. For the initial games programme there will be no Junior Cups but these will be considered during a mid September review by the CCC.

Minor Football Leagues (U-18)

Groups of 4 with each team playing three games. The relative strength of teams participating plus geographical considerations will be taken into account when deciding the make-up of each group.

U-17 Championship

Straight knockout with a maximum number of teams = 16, made up of traditional District/Group teams plus Club teams. From 2021 onwards the age grades for Club Competitions to change to U-17, U15, U-13 following Congress decision earlier this year.

County Senior League

The County League will not be played during the present club window period. The CCC when reviewing all games activity in mid-September will re-visit the situation per taining to the league and may consider a ‘slimmed down’ county league while the inter-county games are being played.

For all games in the Championship, the CCC of the County Board may and without the agreement of either team involved or the respective District Board, change venue at short notice and play midweek games regardless of any ‘entitlements’ to home venue or weekend games.

HURLING

North Kerry Championship

The committee in charge remains the North Kerry District Hurling Board with the following exceptional conditions only in place for this year’s championship and only there if required to suppor t the Board. All disciplinary issues, referee appointments, notification of fixtures, etc remain the responsibility of the North Kerry Hurling Board. The NKHB to co-ordinate their Championship draws and fixtures with the County Board CCC. The NKHB is only allowed to organise Senior District Championship. Any requests to organise Senor Leagues, Juvenile competitions including blitzes would need the prior approval of the County Board CCC.

South Kerry Championship

The Committee in Charge remain the South Kerry District Hurling Board with the following exceptional conditions only in place for this year’s championship and only there if required to suppor t the Board. All disciplinary issues, referee appointments, notification of fixtures, etc, remain the responsibility of the South Kerry Hurling Board. The SKHB to co-ordinate their Championship Format, Draws & Fixtures with the County Board CCC. SKHB only allowed to organise Senior District Championship. Any requests to organise Senior Leagues, Juvenile competitions including tournaments or blitzes would need the prior approval of the County Board CCC.

The CCC of the County Board may and without the agreement of the respective District Board or teams involved bring forward or postpone a District Championship fixture.

County Intermediate Hurling Championship

Straight knock-out and result on the day. Preliminary Round byes may in the first instance be given to dual clubs to lessen the load on dual players during the round robin stages of the club football championships. The CCC may, for the purpose of grading, include a player’s participation in this year’s North Kerry Hurling Championship.

Minor Hurling Championship (U-18)

Straight knock-out and result on the day. For all games in the Championship, the CCC may and without requiring the agreement of either team involved, change venue at shor t notice and play midweek games

Senior County League

The Senior County League will not be played during the present period. The CCC when reviewing all games activity in Mid-Sept will re-visit the situation per taining to the league and may consider a ‘slimmed down’ county league while the inter-county games are being played.