2009 Down county football team season

Down county football team

2009 season
Manager	Ross Carr
Stadium	Páirc Esler, Newry
NFL D3	1st (runner-up)
All-Ireland SFC	Round 3 qualifier
Ulster SFC	First round
Dr McKenna Cup	Semi-finalist

The following is a summary of Down county football team's 2009 season.

Kits

Home

Away

Competitions

  Win   Draw   Loss

Dr McKenna Cup

Main article: 2009 Dr McKenna Cup

Results

Date	Opponents	H / A	Result F – A
4 January 2009	St Mary's	A	0-10 – 3-16
11 January 2009	Tyrone	H	0-16 – 0-09
14 January 2009	Monaghan	A	1-12 – 1-09

Table

  Qualified for next round

Team	Pld	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
Down	3	2	0	1	4-41	1-31	+19	4
Tyrone	3	2	0	1	4-36	2-44	-2	4
Monaghan	3	1	0	2	2-39	3-40	-4	2
St Mary's	3	1	0	2	3-34	7-25	-13	2

Rounds

Round	Home	Score	Away
Semi-final	Queen's University	1-17 v 1-11	Down

Matches and reports

16 January 2010

Down	1-17 – 0-08	Queen's University Belfast

Páirc Esler, Newry

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20 January 2010

Down	0-19 – 1-10	Antrim

Páirc Esler, Newry

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24 January 2010

Derry	1-13 – 1-15	Down

Celtic Park, Derry

National Football League Division 3

Main article: 2009 National Football League (Ireland)

  Compete in Division 3 final and automatic promotion to Division 2   Automatic relegation to Division 4

Team	Pld	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
Down	7	5	0	2	4-96	5-72	21	10
Tipperary	7	5	0	2	5-89	4-78	14	10
Offaly	7	3	1	3	7-68	6-89	-18	7
Louth	7	3	0	4	6-91	5-83	11	6
Cavan	7	3	0	4	2-85	6-76	-3	6
Roscommon	7	3	0	4	3-82	2-88	-3	6
Limerick	7	3	0	4	6-66	6-74	-8	6
Longford	7	2	1	4	3-67	2-84	-14	5

Final

2009
Final

Down	1-14 – 0-18	Tipperary
A Carr 0-5 (0-4f), R Murtagh 1-1, D Gordon, D Hughes 0-2 each, B McArdle, C Magee, J Boyle, C Garvey 0-1 each		B Grogan 0-5 (0-4f, 0-1 pen), B Coen 0-4, J Tierney 0-3 (0-2f), B Mulvihill 0-2, D O’Brien, C Aylward, J Cagney, S Carey 0-1 each

Pearse Stadium

Referee: Cormac Reilly (Meath)

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Ulster Senior Football Championship

Main article: 2009 Ulster Senior Football Championship

Rounds

	Round 1					Quarter-finals					Semi-finals					Final
						Tyrone		2-10
						Armagh		1-10
											Tyrone		0-15
											Derry		0-07
						Derry		1-10
						Monaghan		0-10
																Tyrone		1-18
																Antrim		0-15
						Cavan		0-13
	Fermanagh		0-13			Fermanagh		1-09
	Down		0-10								Cavan		1-07
											Antrim		0-13
						Antrim		1-10
						Donegal		0-12

Results

17 May 2009

First round

Fermanagh	0-13 - 0-10	Down
R Carson 0-6, J Sherry 0-2, T McElroy, M Little, M McGrath, D Keenan, C McElroy 0-1 each	Report	A Carr, B Coulter, P McComiskey, D Hughes 0-2 each, S Kearney, P Fitzpatrick 0-1 each, A Carr SO

Brewster Park, Enniskillen

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

Main article: 2009 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

Qualifiers

Down v London

4 July 2009 Round 1	Down	1-16 - 1-07	London	Páirc Esler, Newry
	Daniel Hughes, P McComiskey, J Boyle 0-3 each, B.Coulter 1-0, B McArdle, C Garvey, D Gordan 0-2 each, R Sexton 0-1	Report	C Donnellan 1-0, P Duffy, K Downes, K McMenamin 0-2 each, P Geraghty 0-1

Down v Laois

11 July 2009 Round 2	Down	2-09 - 0-07	Laois	Páirc Esler, Newry
	B Coulter 1-1, P McComiskey 1-0, D Hughes, A Carr, T Hanna 0-2 each, C Garvey, B McArdle 0-1 each	Report	MJ Tierney 0-4, B McDonald, B Quigley, N Donoher 0-1 each

Wicklow v Down

18 July 2009 Round 3	Wicklow	1-15 - 0-17	Down	Aughrim Park, Wicklow
	T Hannon 0-6, L Glynn 1-3, S Furlong 0-4, JP Dalton, D Odlum 0-1 each	Report	P McComiskey 0-4, D Hughes 0-3, A Rodgers 0-2, C McGovern, T Hanna, C Garvey, D Gordon, B McArdle, B Coulter, R Sexton, R Murtagh 0-1 each