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2016 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship

All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship 2016
Championship details
Dates 14 May – 25 September 2016
Teams 13
All-Ireland champions
Winners Cork (11th win)
Captain Ciara O’Sullivan
Manager Ephie Fitzgerald
All Ireland Runners-up
Runners-up Dublin
Captain Noelle Healy
Manager Geoffrey McGonigle
Provincial champions
Connacht Mayo
Leinster Dublin
Munster Cork
Ulster Monaghan
Championship Statistics
Matches Played 27
2015
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The 2016 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship is the 43rd edition of the Ladies' Gaelic Football Association's premier inter-county Ladies' Gaelic Football tournament. It is known for sponsorship reasons as the TG4 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship.

Cork were the defending champions and successfully defended their title beating Dublin in the final on 25 September 2016. The 2016 attendance of 34,445 was a new record.

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 quarter-final stage. All matches are knock-out.

All-Ireland

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

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.


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