Donegal Intermediate Football Championship 2026

The second tier of Donegal’s club football pyramid, the Intermediate Football Championship, plays a group-stage round on 9 August 2026. Realt na Mara (Bundoran) host Naomh Pádraig, Uisce Chaoin at Fr Tierney Park, one of two Intermediate Championship group games on the day.

What to Expect

Intermediate is the grade directly below Senior in Donegal, made up of clubs chasing promotion and a shot at senior status. Alongside the Bundoran fixture, Málainn (Malin) host Cloich Cheann Fhaola (Falcarragh) at Connolly Park. Both games are part of the round-robin group phase that decides seeding for the knockout stages later in the championship. These are typically hard-fought, well-attended club occasions, with local rivalries and promotion ambitions raising the stakes above a normal league fixture. Reserve team fixtures are often played as curtain-raisers on the same afternoon at the same grounds, so arriving in good time usually means catching two games rather than one.

Good to Know

• Date: Sunday 9 August 2026, Intermediate Football Championship group stage
• Time: fixtures from 2:00pm; the Bundoran game and the Málainn/Cloich Cheann Fhaola tie at Connolly Park kick off close together
• Venue: Fr Tierney Park, Bundoran (featured fixture); a second group game is played at Connolly Park the same afternoon
• Admission: normal club gate admission, no advance ticketing for group games
• The competition runs as a group stage into quarter-finals, semi-finals and a final over the coming weeks; the winners are promoted towards senior football

Getting There

Fr Tierney Park is on the edge of Bundoran town, just off the N15 Sligo to Donegal road, with pitch-side parking available on match days and additional space on nearby streets. Bundoran is well served by Bus Éireann services on the Sligo to Letterkenny route, with a stop close to the town centre a short walk from the grounds. Connolly Park is reachable via the R238 in Inishowen, roughly an hour and a half from Bundoran, so most supporters follow one game rather than both.