Antrim county football team
gaelic football team
The Antrim county football team represents Antrim GAA, the county board of the Gaelic Athletic Association, in the Gaelic sport of football. The team competes in the three major annual inter-county competitions: the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, the Ulster Senior Football Championship and the National Football League.
Antrim's home ground is Casement Park, Belfast; however, this has been closed for redevelopment since 2013, with most home games being played instead at Corrigan Park. The team's manager is Mark Doran
The team last won the Ulster Senior Championship in 1951 but has never won the All-Ireland Senior Championship or the National League.
History
The county team has won the Ulster Senior Football Championship (SFC) on ten occasions: 1900, 1901, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1946 and 1951.
The county team was the first in the province of Ulster to appear in an All-Ireland Senior Football Championship (SFC) final, doing so in 1911 and repeating the feat again in 1912, but losing on both occasions.
Antrim's 1911 All-Ireland SFC semi-final win was not anticipated. The Ulster secretary got sick that year and did not organise a provincial championship. So Antrim arrived to play Kilkenny without having practiced and won by a scoreline of 3–1 to 1–1. The following year Antrim defeated Kerry.
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