2020 Tipperary county football team season
2020 season | ||
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Manager | David Power | |
Captain | Conor Sweeney | |
All-Ireland SFC | Semi-finalist | |
Munster SFC | Winners | |
NFL D3 | 5th |
The following is a summary of Tipperary county football team's 2020 season. David Power was in his first year as manager. The season was suspended in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[1] The season resumed in mid-October of the same year.[2]
On 22 November 2020, Tipperary won the Munster Senior Football Championship after a 0–17 to 0–14 win against Cork in the final. It was Tipperary's first Munster SFC title in 85 years.[3][4][5][6]
To mark the centenary of Bloody Sunday, Tipperary wore special commemorative jerseys in white and green in the final, a replica of the colours worn by the Tipperary team which played Dublin at Croke Park in 1920.[7][8]
Tipperary went on to play Mayo in the All-Ireland Semi-final on 6 December.[9] In foggy conditions they lost the game by 5–20 to 3-13 after being behind by 4–12 to 1–5 at half-time.[10][11][12][13]
Competitions
[edit]National Football League
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Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
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1 | Cork (P) | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 132 | 90 | +42 | 14 | NFL Division 3 champions and promotion to 2021 NFL Division 2 |
2 | Down (P) | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 87 | 87 | 0 | 9[a] | Promotion to 2021 NFL Division 2 |
3 | Derry | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 110 | 95 | +15 | 9[a] | |
4 | Longford | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 96 | 90 | +6 | 7[b] | |
5 | Tipperary | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 99 | 104 | −5 | 7[b] | |
6 | Offaly | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 102 | 111 | −9 | 5 | |
7 | Leitrim (R) | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 90 | 109 | −19 | 3 | Relegation to 2021 NFL Division 4 |
8 | Louth (R) | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 105 | 135 | −30 | 2 |
Rules for classification: 1) League points 2) Where only two teams are involved, the outcome of the meeting of the two teams in the competition 3) Scoring Difference 4) Highest Total Score For 5) A Play-Off.
(P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:
2 February 2020 2 | Louth | 1-07 (10) – (11) 0-11 | Tipperary | Drogheda | |
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Venue: Gaelic Grounds | |||||
Referee: John Hickey
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9 February 2020 3 | Derry | 0-10 (10) – (05) 0-05 | Tipperary | Derry | |
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13:00 | Venue: Celtic Park | ||||
Referee: Jerome Henry
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22 February 2020 4 | Tipperary | 0-21 (21) – (22) 3-13 | Cork | Thurles | |
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Venue: Semple Stadium | |||||
Referee: Brendan Cawley
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1 March 2020 5 | Longford | 3-12 (21) – (16) 3-07 | Tipperary | Longford | |
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Venue: Pearse Park | |||||
Referee: Niall McKenna
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18 October 2020 6 | Tipperary | 1-16 (19) – (16) 0-16 | Offaly | Thurles | |
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16:00 IST (UTC+1) | Venue: Semple Stadium | ||||
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25 October 2020 7 | Leitrim | 0-15 (15) – (17) 2-11 | Tipperary | Carrick-on-Shannon | |
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14:00 GMT (UTC+0) | Venue: Páirc Seán Mac Diarmada | ||||
Referee: Padraig Hughes (Armagh)
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Munster Senior Football Championship
[edit]Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||||||
Waterford | 0-9 | |||||||||||||
Limerick | 2-14 | Limerick | 2-11 | |||||||||||
Tipperary | 2-11 | Tipperary | 1-15 | |||||||||||
Clare | 1-11 | Tipperary | 0-17 | |||||||||||
Cork | 0-14 | |||||||||||||
Cork | 1-12 | |||||||||||||
Kerry | 0-13 |
1 November 2020 Quarter-final | Tipperary | 2–11 (17) – (14) 1–11 | Clare | Thurles | |
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13:00 GMT (UTC+0) | (HT: 1-06 – 0-05) | Venue: Semple Stadium | |||
Gls: C Sweeney 1, B Maher 1. Pts: C Sweeney 4 (2f); J Kennedy 3 (3f); L Casey 2; L Boland 1, E Moloney 1. |
Report | Gls: J Feehan 1 (og). Pts: E Cleary 4 (4f); K Sexton 2 (2f), P Collins 2; Gary Brennan 1, C O'Connor 1, J Malone 1. |
Referee: Conor Lane (Cork)
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7 November 2020 Semi-final | Limerick | 2–11 (17) – (18) 1–15 (a.e.t.) |
Tipperary | Limerick | |
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13:15 GMT (UTC+0) | (HT: 2–6 – 0–5) | Venue: LIT Gaelic Grounds | |||
Gls: S McSweeney 1, C Fahey 1 Pts: S McSweeney 2, H Bourke 2 (2f), D O’Sullivan (1f, ’45) 2, T Griffin 1, K Ryan 1, D Treacy 1, C Sheehan 1, C Fahey 1. |
Report | Gls: L Casey 1 Pts: C Sweeney 7 (5f), J Kennedy 2 (2f), L Boland 2, M Quinlivan 1, K Fahey 1, R Kiely 1, B Fox 1. |
Referee: Maurice Deegan (Laois)
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Tipperary | 0-17 (17) – (14) 0-14 | Cork |
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(HT: 0-11 - 0-07) | ||
Pts: C Sweeney 7 (2fs, 2m); M Quinlivan 5 (1f); L Casey 2 (f); K Fahey 1, E Comerford 1 (free), P Austin 1. |
Pts: L Connolly 4 (2fs, 1 45), M Collins 4 (4fs); J O’Rourke 2; C O’Callaghan 1, B Hurley 1, S White 1, C O’Mahony 1 (f). |
All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
[edit]Mayo | 5-20 (35) – (22) 3-13 | Tipperary |
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(HT: 4-12 – 1-05) | ||
Gls: C O'Connor 4, D O'Connor 1. Pts: C O’Connor 9 (6fs); T Conroy 4 (1m); D Coen 2; M Ruane 1, P Durcan 1, K McLoughlin 1, A O’Shea 1, C Loftus 1. |
Gls: C Sweeney 1, B Fox 1, P Feehan 1. Pts: C Sweeney 9 (8fs); C O’Riordan 2; S O’Brien 1, K Fahey 1. |
Awards
[edit]In January 2021, Kevin Fahey, Bill Maher, Colin O’Riordan and Conor Sweeney were nominated for an All-Star award.[14][15]
On 19 February 2021, Conor Sweeney was named at full-forward on the All-Star team for 2020, becoming the third ever Tipperary player to win an All-Star award.[16][17][18]
Notes
[edit]- ^ The game was played behind closed doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Republic of Ireland
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