THE DONEGAL Competitions Controls Committee (CCC) will conduct quarter-final and relegation play-off draws prior to this evening’s monthly meeting of the county committee.
At around 8.30pm at the Villa Rose Hotel in Ballybofey, the draws for the Michael Murphy Sports & Leisure Donegal Senior, Senior B, Intermediate and Intermediate B Football Championship quarter-finals will take place.
The relegation play-off draws for the senior and intermediate championships will also be made this evening.
Michael Murphy Sports & Leisure Donegal SFC
Pot 1 – Glenswilly, Kilcar, Malin, Naomh Conaill.
Pot 2 – Dungloe, St Eunan’s, Sean MacCumhaills, Termon.
Relegation – Ardara, Killybegs, Glenfin, Four Masters.
EACH of the four group winners – Glenswilly, Kilcar, Malin and Naomh Conaill – will be drawn against a runner-up from pot 2. Teams who met in the group stages are NOT permitted again in a quarter-final. For example, Glenswilly and Dungloe, who met in Group A, cannot meet in a quarter-final fixture.
The four teams in the relegation play-offs will be drawn from the one pot for two semi-finals and the losers of those games will then meet in a relegation play-off, the loser of which will drop to the Intermediate Championship for 2017.
[adrotate group=”81″]Michael Murphy Sports & Leisure Senior B Championship
Pot 1 – Dungloe, St Eunan’s, Sean MacCumhaills, Naomh Conaill.
Pot 2 – Ardara, Kilcar, Glenfin, Gaoth Dobhair.
THE same set-up as the SFC, here, with the four group winners meeting a team from pot 2. The only stipulation here, again, is that teams who played each other in the group stage cannot meet in a quarter-final. For instance, Dungloe and Ardara cannot be drawn to meet in a quarter-final.
[adrotate group=”82″]Michael Murphy Sports & Leisure Donegal IFC
Pot 1 – Milford, Aodh Ruadh, Burt
Pot 2 – St Naul’s, Naomh Ultan, Cloughaneely, Naomh Columba, Naomh Bríd
Relegation – Carndonagh, Naomh Colmcille, Buncrana
THE three group winners – Milford Aodh Ruadh and Burt – will be in pot 1 and, therefore, kept apart in the quarter-finals. The group winners will each face an opponent from pot 2.
The remaining five teams will be drawn from pot 2, meaning two of the teams from this pot will meet in the quarter finals.
Unlike the Senior Championship, there is nothing to prevent teams who met in the group stage from playing again in a quarter-final.
In the relegation play-off, two of the three teams – Carndonagh, Naomh Colmcille and Buncrana – will face off with the loser of that game to play the team that gets a ‘bye’.
[adrotate group=”37″]Michael Murphy Sports & Leisure Intermediate B Championship
Pot 1 – Gaeil Fhánada, Cloughaneely, Buncrana
Pot 2 – Milford, St Naul’s, Aodh Ruadh, Naomh Columba, Naomh Bríd
THE same set-up as the Intermediate Championship with the three group winners kept apart, facing an opponent from pot 2.
The remaining five teams will be drawn from pot 2, meaning two of the teams from this pot will meet in the quarter finals.
Teams who met in the group stage are allowed to meet again in a quarter-final.
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