2022 O'Byrne Cup

The 2022 O'Byrne Cup was a Gaelic football tournament played by eleven county teams of Leinster GAA in January 2022;^[1] Kilkenny did not take part.^[2] Longford were the holders.^[3][4]

A new rule limits the number of substitutions a team can make; players taken off cannot return, capping the number of changes at 11.^{[citation needed]}

Dublin were the winners.^[5]

The opening round game between Meath and Wicklow was called off, with Wicklow infected by COVID-19.^[6]

Competition format

The eleven teams are drawn to play in two groups of four teams and one group of three teams.

Each team plays the other teams in their group once. Two points are awarded for a win and one for a draw.

The three group winners advance to the knockout stage, with one of the winners of a four-team group playing the winners of the three-team group in the semi-final, and the other four-team-group winners advancing directly to the final. Drawn games are decided by penalty shoot-out without any extra time being played.^[7]

Group stage

Games took place 8–15 January 2022.^[8]

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Dublin	3	3	0	0	74	39	+35	6	Advance to final
2	Offaly	3	2	0	1	51	54	−3	4
3	Longford	3	1	0	2	53	52	+1	2
4	Louth	3	0	0	3	40	73	−33	0

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Laois	3	2	0	1	48	51	−3	4	Advance to semi-final
2	Meath	3	2	0	1	27	28	−1	4
3	Wicklow	3	1	0	2	28	30	−2	2
4	Wexford	3	1	0	2	51	45	+6	2

• Meath received a walkover from Wicklow.
• Since Meath and Laois finished on the same number of points, head to head was used as the tiebreaker.

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Kildare	2	2	0	0	50	21	+29	4	Advance to semi-final
2	Westmeath	1	0	0	1	8	19	−11	0
3	Carlow	1	0	0	1	13	31	−18	0

• Carlow v. Westmeath was not played.^[9]

Knockout stage

Laois v Kildare

19 January 2022 (2022-01-19) 19:45 GMT (UTC±0) Semi-Final

Report

Laois	0-09 (9) – (9) 1-06 (6–5 pen)	Kildare
(HT: 0-05 – 1-03)
Penalty kicks
Mark Barry Y Gary Walsh Y Sean Moore Y Cormac Murphy N Brian Daly N Gary Walsh Y Mark Barry N Sean Moore N Brian Daly Y Cormac Murphy Y		N Paddy Woodgate Y Mark Donnellan Y Paul Cribbin N Daniel Flynn Y Jimmy Hyland Y Jimmy Hyland N Paddy Woodgate N Paul Cribbin Y Mark Donnellan N Daniel Flynn

Dr. Cullen Park, Carlow Referee: David Hickey (Carlow)

Laois v Dublin

TG4

22 January 2022 (2022-01-22) 15:00 GMT (UTC±0) Final

Report

Laois	0-11 (11) – (16) 1-13	Dublin
(HT: 0-06 – 1-05)

Dr. Cullen Park, Carlow Referee: Cormac Reilly (Meath)

References

External links

• Official site Archived 29 November 2021 at the Wayback Machine