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Diagram of a Gaelic football and hurling pitch: Date: 23 March 2007: Source: en:Image:Gaelic football pitch diagram.jpg ... Dimensions User Comment; current: 14:51 ...
Gaelic football (Irish: Peil Ghaelach; short name Peil), [1] commonly known as simply Gaelic, GAA, [2] or football, is an Irish team sport. A form of football , it is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch.
The following are the positions in the Gaelic sports of Gaelic football, hurling and camogie. Each team consists of one goalkeeper (who wears a different colour jersey), six backs, two midfielders, and six forwards: 15 players in all. Some under-age games are played 13-a-side (in which case the full-back and full-forward positions are removed ...
The stadiums are ordered by capacity; that is, the maximum number of spectators each stadium is authorised by the GAA to accommodate. Three of the stadiums above 35,000 capacity are used for Gaelic football and hurling provincial finals , while the largest stadium, Croke Park , is used for the All-Ireland Senior Championship Finals each year ...
Both codes use rectangular grassed fields however the Gaelic football pitch has a larger area. A Gaelic football pitch is 130–145 metres long and 80–90 metres wide [1] and are marked at distances of 13 m, 20 m and 45 m from each end-line whereas the Rugby field is as near as possible to a maximum of 144m long by 70m wide.
The same pitch is used for Gaelic football; the GAA, which organises both sports, decided this to facilitate dual usage. Lines are marked at distances of 13 metres, 20 metres and 59 metres (41 metres for Gaelic football) from each end-line. Shorter pitches and smaller goals are used by youth teams. [9]
9 October 1926 saw first steps taken towards creating the Limerick Gaelic Grounds as a GAA stadium of note. A farm containing 12 acres (4.9 ha) was purchased at Coolraine on the Ennis Road for development as a sporting grounds. Two years later the new grounds officially opened with two junior hurling games. The first big effort to raise funds ...
St Tiernach's Park is the principal GAA stadium of Ulster GAA located in County Monaghan, Ireland.It is used mainly for Gaelic football. Such is its association with the town of Clones (/ ˈ k l oʊ n ɪ s / KLOH-nis), which is located to the south, that the venue itself is often referred to simply as Clones.