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6 of the Bottom 16 counties that still have a chance to play in the Sam Maguire are:

Down - must beat Armagh in Ulster semi-final on 27 April, otherwise stay in Tailteann Cup
Kildare - must beat Louth in Leinster semi-final on 28 April, otherwise stay in Tailteann Cup
Sligo - must beat Galway in Connacht semi-final on 20 April, otherwise stay in Tailteann Cup
Offaly - must beat Dublin in Leinster semi-final on 28 April, otherwise stay in Tailteann Cup
Clare/Waterford – play each other in Munster semi-final on 20 April, loser stays in Tailteann Cup, winner goes to Sam Maguire.


After 2 weeks the following 12 counties are confirmed to play in the Tailteann Cup 2024.

Clare or Waterford – whichever does not get to the Munster final.

Fermanagh
Antrim
Laois
Leitrim
Wicklow
Limerick
Wexford
Longford
Carlow
London
Tipperary
New York

[Connacht Senior Football Championship]

Week 3 of the Provincial Championships has 6 games, which will see 21 of the 29 games played.

Connacht Senior Football Championship
 
Semi-finals 
20-Apr  Sligo v Galway
21-Apr  Mayo v Roscommon
 
 
Munster Senior Football Championship
 
Semi-finals 
20-Apr  Clare v Waterford
20-Apr  Kerry v Cork
 
 
Ulster Senior Football Championship
 
Quarter-finals 
20-Apr  Derry v Donegal
21-Apr  Cavan v Tyrone

13/14 April

4 Leinster Quarter-finals:

13-Apr  Offaly 2-13 Laois 1-8
14-Apr  Dublin 3-19 Meath 0-12
14-Apr  Kildare 0-16 Wicklow 1-12
14-Apr  Louth 4-10 Wexford 0-15

2 Ulster Quarter-finals:

13-Apr  Down 0-13 Antrim 0-9
14-Apr  Fermanagh 0-9 Armagh 3-11

After Week 2 of the Provincial Championships, the following 5 counties are playing in the 2024 Tailteann Cup:

Laois
Wicklow
Wexford

Antrim
Fermanagh

Minor Championship 2024 - 2 groups, top team in each group straight to semi-final, second and third in each group to 2 quarterfinals.


Group A - Games on Saturdays 6, 13, 20, 27 April and 4 May

Rd 1
Fermanagh 1-4 Donegal 3-13
Tyrone 2-7 Down 1-7
Monaghan a bye

Group B - Games on Saturdays 6, 20 April and 4 May

Rd 1
Armagh 2-9 Antrim 0-2
Derry 1-8 Cavan 1-5

Group A Rd 2 Results from 13 April

Monaghan 4-10 Fermanagh 0-8
Donegal 2-12 Tyrone 1-8

Death Notices is thread title.

Take your discussions elsewhere. 

6 Games for 13/14 April, making 15 of the 29 Provincial games have been played in 2 weeks.

4 Leinster Quarter-finals:
 
13-Apr  Offaly 2-13 Laois 1-8
14-Apr  Dublin 3-19 Meath 0-12
14-Apr  Kildare 0-16 Wicklow 1-12
14-Apr  Louth 4-10 Wexford 0-15

2 Ulster Quarter-finals:

13-Apr   Down 0-13 Antrim 0-9
14-Apr   Fermanagh 0-9 Armagh 3-11

After Week 1 of Provincial games (on 6/7 April), the following Bottom 16 teams were eliminated from their Provincial Championship and will be in the Tailteann Cup in 2024:

London
Leitrim
Longford
Carlow
Tipperary
Limerick

New York - but not in the Group stage as noted in previous post.

At the end of the Provincial championships, the Group stages of the championships begin. 

The 4 Groups for Sam Maguire will have the 4 provincial champions as the number 1 seeds, the 4 provincial runners-up as the two seeds, the next four from the above rankings as the 3 seeds, and the next 4 as the 4 seeds.

The Tailteann Cup will have seedings based on the league positions of the teams participating. New York will not play in the Tailteann Cup Group stage, but will enter the competition at the Preliminary-Quarter-Final stage.

At the end of the league, the rankings are divided into two Groups, based on the final league standings after the 4 league finals.  The Top 16 will play in the Sam Maguire competition and the Bottom 16 will play in the Tailteann Cup competition, unless a Bottom 16 team reaches its Provincial Final.  Were that to occur, lowest team listed in the Top 16 will be dropped to the Bottom 16 and play in the Tailteann Cup.

With the Provincial draws for 2024, one side of the Munster Championship has all Bottom 16 teams (Clare, Tipperary and Waterford), so the lowest rank of the Top 16 teams (Down) is dropped to Tailteann Cup status, since all Provincial finalists are guaranteed to be in the Top 16 for All-Ireland Group stages seeding.  Any team dropped from the Top 16 to the Bottom 16 can regain Top 16 status by reaching their respective Provincial final.  As Tailteann Cup holders, Meath cannot be relegated from the Top 16.

Here is the ranking of Top 16 at the start of the Provincial championships.

Derry
Dublin
Kerry
Mayo
Tyrone
Galway
Donegal
Armagh
Roscommon
Monaghan
Cavan
Cork
Meath
Louth
Westmeath
Clare/Tipperary/Waterford – whichever gets to the Munster Final

The Bottom 16 are:

Down
Fermanagh
Kildare
Clare/Tipperary/Waterford – whichever 2 do not get to the Munster final.
Sligo
Antrim
Offaly
Laois
Leitrim
Wicklow
Limerick
Wexford
Longford
Carlow
London
New York

Final Standings Group A

Tyrone 7pts

Derry 6 pts
Monaghan 4 pts

Down 3 pts
Antrim 0 pts


Group B - Donegal v Armagh on Sat 13 April is last game

Donegal 4 pts, +16 scoring diff
Armagh  4 pts, +8 scoring diff

Cavan  2 pts

Fermanagh  0 pts

Quarter Finals – Wed 17th April

(First named team has home advantage)

Group A Runner-Up - Derry V Third in Group B - Cavan
Group B Runner-Up - loser of Donegal/Armagh, Armagh if a Draw V Third in Group A - Monaghan

Wednesday 10 April

Ulster U20FC
Donegal v Armagh - Postponed - Will be played on Saturday 13 April
Fermanagh 1-11 Cavan 2-9

Derry 5-16 Antrim 0-3
Tyrone 5-20 Monaghan 0-8

Week 1 of the Provincial Championships had 9 games.

Results:

Connacht SFC quarter-finals
London 0-9 Galway 5-21
New York 2-6 Mayo 2-21
Leitrim 0-6 Sligo 0-15

Ulster SFC preliminary round
Monaghan 1-12 Cavan 3-12

Leinster SFC round 1
Westmeath 1-11 Wicklow 2-9
Longford 3-12 Meath 3-19
Wexford 4-19 Carlow 0-8

Munster SFC quarter-finals
Waterford 2-7 Tipperary 1-5
Cork 3-13 Limerick 0-11


Opening post has each championship updated as well.

Next weekend 13/14 April has 6 games - all 4 Leinster quarter-finals and 2 Ulster quarter-finals.

Minor Championship 2024 - 2 groups, top team in each group straight to semi-final, second and third in each group to 2 quarterfinals.


Group A - Games on Saturdays 6, 13, 20, 27 April and 4 May

Rd 1
Fermanagh 1-4 Donegal 3-13
Tyrone 2-7 Down 1-7
Monaghan a bye

Group B - Games on Saturdays 6, 20 April and 4 May

Rd 1
Armagh 2-9 Antrim 0-2
Derry 1-8 Cavan 1-5

Fair play Mod.

You'll probably also have to do guides to the Sam/TC for the casuals and indeed some not so casual

I'll have to, now that I've opened the door.  The "performance" of some posters on the Ulster U20 thread showed me the need for very basic info to get posted on time. 

Blowitupref does a great job on live match scores/status.

Mod5, Will we be having a Championship competition?

Tried a championship competition a few years ago and felt it was nowhere near as good as the league.  The league had 16 games per round for 7 rounds among teams of reasonably similar abilities.  Not enough choice in most championship games, and not enough games either.  Although plenty group games when including the Tailteann Cup, I suppose.

Anyway, I'm not running a competition for the championship.