2016 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship

Provincial Championships

Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster each organise their provincial championship. Each province determines the format for deciding their champions and it may be league, group, knock-out, double-elimination, etc. or a combination. For clarity, the format is explained in the provincial sections below.

Qualifiers

All teams except the provincial champions enter the All-Ireland qualifiers. The final four qualifier winners re-enter the All-Ireland championship at the quarterfinal stage. All matches are knock-out.

All-Ireland

The four provincial champions play the four winners from the qualifiers in the All-Ireland quarterfinals with the winners progressing to the semifinals. The final is normally played on the fourth Sunday in September. All matches are knock-out.

Summarize Timeline Fact Check

As only two teams enter, a knock-out final is played.

Four Leinster teams (Dublin, Laois, Meath and Westmeath) compete in an initial group stage. Each team plays all the other teams once in three rounds of two matches. The top two teams advance to the final.

• Dublin 3-15 – 0-4 Laois
• Meath 2-14 – 5-21 Westmeath

• Laois 3-6 – 2-9 Meath
• Westmeath 1-4 – 4-12 Dublin

• Laois 1-11 – 2-12 Westmeath
• Meath 2-4 – 3-19 Dublin

1. Dublin (6 pts)
2. Westmeath (4)
3. Laois (1)
4. Meath (1)

10 July 2016 3:00 pm Final	Dublin	4-21 - 0-7	Westmeath	O'Moore Park Referee: Colm McManus (Meath) Man of the Match: Nicole Owens (St. Sylvesters)
	Lyndsey Davey 1-4 (0-1f), Nicole Owens 0-6, Carla Rowe and Sinead Aherne (0-1f) 1-2 each, Sinéad Goldrick 1-1, Noëlle Healy 0-3, Ciara Trant (0-1f), Deirdre Murphy, Siobhan Woods 0-1 each	Report	Leona Archibald 0-4 (0-3f), Lucy McCartan, Fiona Claffey, Maud Annie Foley 0-1 each

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Three Munster teams (Cork, Kerry and Waterford) compete in an initial group stage. The top two teams advance to the final.

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Four teams compete in two semifinals and a final. All matches are knockout.

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