2018 National Football League (Ireland)
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2018 National Football League
League details
Dates 27 January – 1 April 2018
Teams 32
League champions
Winners Dublin (13th win)
Captain Stephen Cluxton
Manager Jim Gavin
League runners-up
Runners-up Galway
Captain Damien Comer
Manager Kevin Walsh
Other division winners
Division 2 Roscommon
Division 3 Armagh
Division 4 Laois
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… Morehe 2018 National Football League, known for sponsorship reasons as the Allianz National Football League, was the 87th staging of the National Football League (NFL), an annual Gaelic football tournament for Gaelic Athletic Association county teams. Thirty-one county teams from the island of Ireland, plus London, compete. Kilkenny do not participate.
The first six rounds in all four divisions were scheduled to have been played before 24 March 2018, allowing the final round seven matches to be played on that date. Due to poor winter weather, some fixtures in Division 2 (round 6) and Division 4 (rounds 5 and 6) had not been played by that date. The GAA decided to proceed with the final round seven matches in the four divisions before the completion of the earlier rounds. This decision proved controversial - for instance, in the rescheduled Division 2 match between Louth and Meath which was played on 31 March 2018, Meath needed to win to avoid relegation while Louth had nothing to play for as they were already relegated irrespective of the result. Meath beat Louth by 1-12 to 0-07, thereby ensuring that Down were relegated.
Eir Sport and TG4 provide live TV coverage of the league on Saturday nights and Sunday afternoons respectively. The highlights programmes are RTÉ2's League Sunday on Sunday evenings and TG4's GAA 2018 on Monday evenings.
The league concluded on 1 April 2018 with Dublin defeating Galway in the division 1 final. It was their fifth Division 1 title in six years.[1][2]
Contents [hide]
1 Format
1.1 League structure
1.2 Tie-breaker
1.3 Finals, promotions and relegations
2 Division 1
2.1 Division 1 Table
2.2 Division 1 Rounds 1 to 7
2.3 Division 1 Final
3 Division 2
3.1 Division 2 Table
3.2 Division 2 Rounds 1 to 7
3.3 Division 2 Final
4 Division 3
4.1 Division 3 Table
4.2 Division 3 Rounds 1 to 7
4.3 Division 3 Final
5 Division 4
5.1 Division 4 Table
5.2 Division 4 Rounds 1 to 7
5.3 Division 4 Final
6 League Statistics
6.1 Top Scorer: Overall
6.2 Top Scorer: Single game
6.3 Scoring Events
7 References
8 External links Less