New structure confirmed for 2024 Roscommon Senior Football Championship

A new structure has been confirmed for the 2024 Roscommon Senior Football Championship to ensure that teams that finish third in their group aren’t eliminated.

As was the case in 2023, the 12 senior teams will be divided into three groups of four. The top two teams in each group will automatically qualify for the quarter-finals. One of the teams that finish second will join the group winners and be seeded for the last eight draw.

However, unlike last season — where St. Faithleach’s, St. Dominic’s and Tulsk finished third in their group and were subsequently eliminated — the third-placed teams in this year’s group stages of the championship will have the opportunity to book their place in the knockout stages.

Two of the teams that finish third will play each other, while the third team will play the winners of the divisional championship to make up the seventh and eighth teams in the quarter-finals.

It is understood that as many as three teams could take part in this year’s divisional championship with a Mid-South team likely to join sides from West and North Roscommon.

It is believed that players from Creggs, Fuerty, St. Aidan’s, Kilbride and St. Joseph’s are eager to be given the opportunity to test themselves in the senior football championship environment.

It has also been confirmed that this year’s U-20 football championship will revert back to the autumn. For the last two years, the competition in all three divisions took place during the summer months but clubs at last night’s county board meeting voted to push the competition back towards the latter end of the season.