GAA confirm revised fixtures calendar for the 2021 season
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THE GAA has today, Thursday, released its updated Master Fixtures Calendar for the 2021 season.
The inter-county season will run from the weekend of May 8-/9 with the start of the Allianz Hurling League, to the weekend of August 28/29 when the All-Ireland Football Final will be played.
County and Provincial Club Championships will be played in the months of September, October, November, and December with the All-Ireland Club Finals scheduled for February 2022.
The inter-county fixtures programme will be run off in a 20-week period and guarantees a minimum of five games for each Senior County Football and Hurling team with all bar three counties guaranteed six games in hurling.
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The GAA has confirmed that the Allianz Hurling Leagues will kick start the associations roadmap on the second weekend in May.
The football leagues commence a week later on the 15th / 16th May.
Donegal and Tyrone will be grouped with Monaghan and Armagh in a regionalised league format with the League Final pencilled in for the 19th/20th June.
The Ulster and Provincial Championships will begin the following weekend, the last weekend in June, with the Ulster Final marked for the weekend of the 31st July /1st August.
Championship will be straight knock out again in 2021 with no qualifiers and the Tailteann Cup on hold. The All Ireland Football Final will be played on the weekend of 28th/29th August.
Last updated 1 hour ago | By Ernest Ndunda
Kenya Ports Authority volleyball team coach Samson Sunguti (left) talks to his players. [Omondi Onyango, Standard]
Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) men’s volleyball team coach Samson Sunguti targets quarter finals as his side make debut at the 2021 Africa Club Championships that run from April 16-28 in Tunisia.
“My first step is to reach the last eight at the continental championship,” Sunguti said in an interview yesterday at Makande Indoor Gymnasiums in Mombasa.
“Making it to the quarter finals will boost the team’s morale. This is the beginning of our road map to future dominance of Kenyan men volleyball,” he said.