The 2026 Ulster Senior Football Championship was the 138th instalment of the annual Ulster Senior Football Championship organised by Ulster GAA. It was one of the four provincial competitions of the 2026 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship. The draw for the 2026 Ulster Championship took place on 27 November 2025.
Donegal entered the contest as defending champions, but were eliminated in the Quarter-finals by Down. Monaghan and Armagh met in the Ulster final for the first time since the 1938 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship season when the decider was won by the Farney County. However, the Monaghan victory of 88 years ago was not to be repeated as Armagh won the match after extra-time. Aidan Forker became the first Armagh captain, since Paul McGrane in 2008, to lift the Anglo-Celt Cup after Forker's team had lost the previous three finals in 2023, 2024 and 2025.
Draw Bracket
Preliminary round
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final
Stadia and attendance
CountyLocationProvinceStadiumCapacity AntrimBelfastUlsterCorrigan Park3,700 ArmaghArmaghUlsterAthletic Grounds18,500 CavanCavanUlsterBreffni Park25,030 DerryDerryUlsterCeltic Park18,500 DonegalBallybofeyUlsterMacCumhaill Park17,500 DownNewryUlsterPáirc Esler20,000 FermanaghEnniskillenUlsterBrewster Park20,000 MonaghanClonesUlsterSt Tiernach's Park29,000 TyroneOmaghUlsterHealy Park17,636
Personnel and kits CountyManager(s)Captain(s)Sponsors AntrimMark DoranDermot McAleeseFibrus Broadband ArmaghKieran McGeeneyAidan ForkerSimplyfruit CavanDermot McCabeCiaran BradyKingspan Group DerryCiarán MeenaghConor GlassErrigal Group DonegalJim McGuinnessPatrick McBreartyCircet DownConor LavertyPierce LavertyEOS IT Solutions FermanaghDeclan BonnerRonan McCaffreyTracey Concrete MonaghanGabriel BanniganMicheál BanniganActiv8 Solar Energies TyroneMalachy O'RourkeBrian KennedyMcAleer & Rushe
Miscellaneous
It was the first Ulster final between Armagh and Monaghan since 1938. Armagh won their first Ulster title since 2008.
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