2025 Tailteann Cup final

The 2025 Tailteann Cup final was the fourth final of the Tailteann Cup and the culmination of the 2025 Tailteann Cup, the GAA's second-tier Gaelic football competition for county teams.^[1] The match was played at Croke Park in Dublin on 12 July 2025, between Kildare and Limerick.^[2][3]

2025 Tailteann Cup final

Event	2025 Tailteann Cup
Kildare Limerick 1–24 (27) 2–19 (25)
Kildare win the Tailteann Cup and qualify automatically for the last 16 of the 2026 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Date	12 July 2025 (2025-07-12)
Venue	Croke Park, Dublin
Man of the Match	Darragh Kirwan (Kildare)
Referee	Liam Devenney
Weather	Sunny, 27 °C (81 °F)
← 2024 2026 →

The match was played before the All-Ireland semi-final between Kerry and Tyrone. Kildare won the game by two points.^[4][5]

Paths to the final

Kildare Round Date Opponent Venue (H/A/N) Result Victory margin Score Ref Group game 10 May 2025 Leitrim St Conleth's Park (H) Win 25 0-36 to 0-11 [6] Group game 17 May 2025 Tipperary Clonmel (A) Win 14 3–19 to 1-11 [7] Group game 1 June 2025 Sligo Dr. Hyde Park (N) Win 4 4-19 to 1-24 [8] Quarter-final 14 June 2025 Offaly St Conleth's Park (H) Win 1 1-17 to 0-19 [9] Semi-final 22 June 2025 Fermanagh Croke Park (N) Win 7 1-13 to 0-9 [10]

Limerick Round Date Opponent Venue (H/A/N) Result Victory margin Score Ref Group game 10 May 2025 London Newcastle West (H) Win 7 0-25 to 1-15 [11] Group game 17 May 2025 Antrim Corrigan Park (A) Win 8 1-18 to 1-10 [12] Group game 31 May 2025 Westmeath O'Moore Park (N) Win 1 0-19 to 0-18 [13] Quarter-final 15 June 2025 Wexford Gaelic Grounds (H) Win 8 4-21 to 2-19 [14] Semi-final 22 June 2025 Wicklow Croke Park (N) Win 4 2-18 to 1-17 [10]

Match

Details

12 July 2025

14:30 IST (UTC+1)

Kildare	1–24 (27) – (25) 2–19	Limerick
Darragh Kirwan 0-8 (2 tp), Alex Beirne 1-2, Ryan Sinkey 0-3, Brian McLoughlin 0-3 (1 tp), Callum Bolton 0-2 (tp), Kevin Feely 0-2 (1f), Colm Dalton 0-2, Tommy Gill 0-1, Daniel Flynn 0-1.	Report	Cillian Fahy 1-1, Killian Ryan 1-1, Tony McCarthy 0-3, Josh Ryan 0-3 (1tpf, 1 45), Peter Nash 0-3 (1f), Emmet Rigter 0-2, James Naughton 0-2fs, Danny Neville 0-1, Tommie Childs 0-1, Iain Corbett 0-1, Rory O’Brien 0-1

Croke Park, Dublin

Referee: Liam Devenney