2011 Ulster Senior Football Championship

The 2011 Ulster Senior Football Championship was the 123rd^[1] installment of the annual Ulster Senior Football Championship held under the auspices of the Ulster GAA. It was won by Donegal who defeated Derry in the final. It was their first Ulster title since 1992.^[2] The winning Donegal team received the Anglo-Celt Cup, and automatically advanced to the quarter-final stage of the 2011 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship.

Championship venues

Celtic Park in the City of Derry

Healy Park in Omagh

St Tiernach's Park in Clones

and others elsewhere...

Donegal's semi-final defeat of Tyrone and Derry's semi-final defeat of Armagh brought about the end of a long period of dominance by these two counties.^[3] Armagh and Tyrone had shared the previous eleven Ulster senior titles between them in a run stretching back to 1999. It also brought a first major trophy for Jim McGuinness's famed Donegal team, who would go on to consign the decade-long dominance of those two counties to history.^[4][5]

Bracket

	Preliminary round					Quarter-finals					Semi-finals					Final
						Derry		1-18
						Fermanagh		1-10
											Derry		3-14
											Armagh		1-11
						Armagh		1-15
						Down		1-10
																Derry		0-08
																Donegal		1-11
						Tyrone		1-13
						Monaghan		1-11
											Tyrone		0-9
											Donegal		2-6
						Cavan		1-8
	Donegal		1-10			Donegal		2-14
	Antrim		0-7

Preliminary round

15 May 2011

3:30pm

Preliminary Round

Donegal	1-10 - 0-7	Antrim
M McHugh 1-1, M Murphy 0-3 (3f), R Bradley, C McFadden (1f) 0-2 each, D Molloy, A Hanlon 0-1 each	Report	T McCann, P Cunningham (1f), K Niblock (2f) 0-2 each, M Dougan 0-1

MacCumhaill Park, Ballybofey

Attendance: 7,385

Referee: Maurice Deegan (Laois)

Quarter-finals

22 May 2011

3:30pm

Quarter Final

Derry	1-18 - 1-10	Fermanagh
E Bradley 1-4, C Gilligan 0-3, E. Muldoon, J Diver, M Bateson, G O'Kane 0-2 each, M Lynch, SL McGoldrick, C Kielt 0-1 each	Report	D Kille 0-5 (3f, 1 '45), J Woods 1-0, R Jones 0-2, T Flanagan, C O'Brien , B Mulrone 0-1 each.

Celtic Park, Derry

Attendance: 5,646

Referee: Joe McQuillan (Cavan)

28 May 2011

7:30pm

Quarter Final

Armagh	1-15 - 1-10	Down
J Clarke 1-2, A Kernan 0-5 (3f), BJ Padden 0-3, M Mackin 0-2, K Dyas, T Kernan S McDonnell (f) 0-1 each	Report	M Clarke 0-5 (4f), M Poland 1-1, P McComiskey 0-2, D Rooney, D Hughes 0-1 each.

Athletic Grounds, Armagh

Attendance: 13,107

Referee: C Reilly (Meath)

5 June 2011

3:30pm

Quarter Final

Tyrone	1-13 - 1-11	Monaghan
B McGuigan 1-1, S Cavanagh 0-4 (0-2f), S O'Neill 0-3, M Penrose (2f), P Harte (1f, 1 '45) 0-2 each, O Mulligan 0-1	Report	C McManus 0-6 (5f), D Hughes 1-1 (1-0 pen), P Finlay 0-4 (3f).

Healy Park, Omagh

Attendance: 10,937

Referee: Joe McQuillan (Cavan)

12 June 2011

3:30pm

Quarter Final

Donegal	2-14 - 1-8	Cavan
P McBrearty 1-3 (1f), C McFadden 0-5 (2f), R Kavanagh 1-0, D Molloy 0-2, K Cassidy, K Rafferty, L McLoone and M Murphy 0-1(f) each	Report	M Brennan 1-1, N McDermott 0-4 (3f), G McKiernan, F Flanagan and S Johnston 0-1 (f) each.

Breffni Park, Cavan

Attendance: 9,325

Referee: M Duffy (Sligo)

Semi-finals

19 June 2011

2:00pm

Semi Final

Derry	3-14 - 1-11	Armagh
E Bradley (0-2f), C Gilligan (0-5f) 1-5 each, M Lynch 1-2, SL McGoldrick, C Kielt 0-1 each	Report	S McDonnell (3f, 1 '45) 0-6, M O'Rourke 1-1, J Clarke, P Duffy, A Kernan, C Vernon 0-1 each

St Tiernach's Park, Clones

Attendance: 14,941

Referee: David Coldrick (Meath)

26 June 2011

3:30pm

Semi Final

Tyrone	0-9 - 2-6	Donegal
S O'Neill 0-2, S Cavanagh 0-2 (1f), P Jordan, B Dooher, O Mulligan, M Penrose and P Harte (f) 0-1 each	Report	C McFadden 1-1 (1f), D Molloy 1-0, M Murphy 0-2 (1f), K Cassidy, K Rafferty and P McBrearty 0-1 each

St Tiernach's Park, Clones

Attendance: 18,536

Referee: Joe McQuillan (Cavan)

Final

17 July 2011

4:00pm

Final

Derry	0-08 - 1-11	Donegal
J Kielt 0-04 (2f), C Kielt 0-02, C Gilligan (f), M Donaghy 0-01 each	Report	M Murphy 1-02 (1-00 pen), C McFadden 0-04 (2f), M Hegarty, A Thompson 0-02 each, R Bradley 0-01

St Tiernach's Park, Clones

Attendance: 28,364

Referee: Maurice Deegan (Laois)