GAELIC SPORTS WORLD Issue 36 - October 17, 2015 | Page 8

The finals will be held over one
day and takes place at the six-field
sports complex of the Rudolf Tonn
Stadium. The Vienna Gaels hosted a round of the European GAA
Football Championships back in
2012 but they have never held the
finals round and as such is a great
honour for the club.
The Men’s & Ladies Football
championships is an 11 a-side format and held over two rounds with
points accumulated after Round
1 with the teams with the most
points after the finals in Vienna declared winners. The competitions
will be in men’s senior, intermediate and junior while for the ladies
it will be senior championship and
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MEN’S COMPETITION FORMATS
In the men’s grades, there are 4 men’s teams entered into
the Senior A with some others who had made it through
from Galicia not able to attend. The bottom teams from
Round 1 in Galicia are ranked into Junior A and B, a total
of 7 teams, while the 12 middle teams will go into Senior B
and intermediate competitions.
MEN’S SENIOR CHAMPIONSHIP
Senior A grade teams are Amsterdam and Paris A on 20
points each, A Estrada on 16 and Belgium 13.

land – the system in Europe allows this – but compensates
for fairness in that they deduct five points.
Amsterdam though will probably start as favourites as
they won the Premier 15 a-side European Championship
this year and just failed to progress in the Leinster Junior
Football Championship last weekend (see report below).
Paris are always tough to beat and the same can be said for
Belgium who have been in goof form in the past number of
years in Europe. The Galician side Irmandinhos did very
well beating Belgium into third in Round 1 and could be a
dark-horse.
LADIES SENIOR

Amsterdam though they won Round 1 of the championship in Galicia, and should have been on 25 points as a
result, but because they played a weekend player from Ire-

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Playing in a 9 a-side format in the Ladies Championship,
there are 10 teams with 6 new sides in action. The top teams