Matches: | 18 |
Trophy: | O'Byrne Cup |
Province: | Leinster |
Year: | 2020 |
Manager: | Padraic Davis |
Captain: | Michael Quinn |
Winners: | Longford |
Ordinal: | 3 |
Runnersup: | Offaly |
Runnerupcaptain: | Eoin Rigney |
Runnerupmanager: | John Maughan |
Next: | 2022 |
The 2020 O'Byrne Cup was a Gaelic football tournament played by county teams of Leinster GAA in December 2019 and January 2020.[1] [2] [3] [4]
Longford were the surprise winners.[5] [6]
One team (Dublin) receives a bye to the semi-finals. The remaining ten teams are drawn to play in one group of four teams and two groups of three teams.
In the four-team group, each team plays the other teams in their group once. Two points are awarded for a win and one for a draw.
In the two three-team groups, each team plays the other teams in their group once. Each team also plays one game against a team from the other three-team group. Two points are awarded for a win and one for a draw.
The three group winners advance to the semi-finals.
The three teams in Group 2 play the three teams in Group 3 with each team having a single game.
The three group winners plus the team given a bye (Dublin) compete in the semi-finals. The two winners advance to the final.