Are GAA fixtures and results automatic?

Yes. Gaelic football and hurling both run on the live data feed, from the provincial championships and the National Leagues through to the two All-Ireland finals, with the Tailteann Cup and the Joe McDonagh, Christy Ring, Nicky Rackard and Lory Meagher Cups alongside them. Fixtures, throw-in times, lock countdowns and results arrive without you touching them, and a rescheduled fixture carries the new time with it. The scoring rules are the only thing you set, and you set them once.

How should we handle goals and points in the scoring?

Convert to a total and say so in writing. A goal is three points, a point is one, and in football a point from outside the 40 metre arc has been worth two since 2025. Once everyone knows a margin means converted total points, the argument disappears. Leaving it unsaid is what produces the row, not the arithmetic.

Can we run football and hurling in the one competition?

You can, but run them as two competitions on one hub rather than one merged leaderboard. The two codes score differently now that the arc applies to football only, so a shared margin rule is comparing unlike things. Two leaderboards and one player list gives you the same room without the distortion.

Does the new championship format change how we set our competition up?

Yes, in one specific way. With the group phase gone, counties no longer play a guaranteed three matches each, so the number of fixtures in a round moves as the qualifier series thins out. If you score flat points per correct call, the heavy rounds carry more weight than the light ones. Weight by fixture count, or decide you are happy with it, but decide before Round 1.

Is there any betting or money involved?

None. There are no odds, no stakes and no wagering anywhere in Fanzava. It is a fan and workplace engagement platform, deliberately not a betting product. Predictions are predictions, and what people are playing for is the leaderboard and the bragging rights.

Plans start free, with the free plan covering 25 players and one competition at a time. Paid plans are billed in euro, and the pricing page has the full breakdown.

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GAA predictions

Gaelic games are scored in two numbers, and your prediction league has to say which one it means.

A GAA prediction league across the football and hurling championships, in your colours and on your domain. Here is the real shape of both championships after the format change, the scoring decisions that come with goals and points, and how the whole championship arrives in your hub on its own.

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Two championships, one calendar, and a scoreline that needs translating.

Two codes, one association: Gaelic football and hurling run side by side under the same association, across more than 2,200 clubs in all 32 counties. Every player at every level is an amateur and is not paid to play.
The football championship changed shape: Congress voted by 92.8 per cent to abolish the group phase that had run since 2023. From 2026 the Sam Maguire is a 16 county qualifier series, not a group stage.
Who gets into the Sam Maguire: The eight provincial finalists, the seven highest ranked counties from the National Football League, and the reigning Tailteann Cup holders.
How the qualifier series runs: Round 1 pairs the eight provincial finalists against the eight other qualifiers. Round 2A splits the winners, Round 2B the losers, Round 3 puts the 2A losers against the 2B winners, and eight counties reach the quarter finals.
The provinces still seed everything: Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster are played first and are not decoration. The four provincial finals are what produce the eight counties that enter Round 1.
Hurling kept its round robin: Munster is five counties playing each other once, four matches apiece. Leinster is six counties, five matches apiece. The top two in each province contest the provincial final and third place goes straight into the All-Ireland quarter finals.
Where the knockout dates land: In 2026 the football quarter finals fell on 27 and 28 June, the semi finals on 11 and 12 July and the final on 26 July. Congress kept the All-Ireland finals in July for 2027 and withdrew a proposal to add a fortnight to the inter county season.
The split season: Inter county finishes in July and August onward belongs to the clubs. Your competition has a hard finish line built into the calendar, which almost no other sport hands you.
The scoreline is two numbers: A goal is worth three points and is written first, so 1-14 reads as one goal and fourteen points, or seventeen converted. Since 2025 a football point kicked from outside the 40 metre arc, from open play or from a free or a 45, is worth two. Hurling scoring is unchanged.

How a GAA competition runs, start to finish.

The championship loads itself.

Gaelic games run on Fanzava's live data feed. The four provincial championships, the Sam Maguire qualifier series, the Liam MacCarthy round robins, the National Leagues, the Tailteann Cup and the Joe McDonagh, Christy Ring, Nicky Rackard and Lory Meagher Cups all arrive with throw-in times and lock countdowns already attached. A rescheduled qualifier updates itself. You pick the code and set the scoring rules, and that is the setup.
Pick your code, or run both on one hub.

Football and hurling are separate competitions with separate leaderboards and one player list. A club with a strong hurling following and a workplace that only watches the football can sit on the same hub without either group having to care about the other.
Your players predict before throw-in.

A winner in every fixture, locked at throw-in, with reminders going out the day before and again in the hour before the first match. Locks are per fixture, so a Saturday evening qualifier closing has nothing to do with the Sunday game.
Results land and the leaderboard settles itself.

The scoreline comes off the feed on the final whistle and the standings move, overall and inside every group. The conversion from goals and points to a total is the competition's job, not something anyone should be doing on the back of an envelope on a Sunday night.
July ends it, cleanly.

The split season means the inter county calendar finishes rather than trails off. Your competition has a final round, a winner and a natural point to hand out whatever you are handing out, and then August belongs to the clubs.

The scoring arguments unique to Gaelic games.

Every other code on this site scores in one unit. Gaelic football and hurling score in two, and since 2025 football has scored in three. Almost every rule below is a consequence of that.

A margin tiebreaker has to say which unit it means.

Ask for a margin in a GAA competition and half your field will answer in points and half in goals. Take 1-12 to 0-14: converted, that is 15 to 14, a one point win. Read as a scoreline it is a goal up and two points down. Both readings are defensible in a pub and only one can score. State that margin means converted total points, in a single sentence, at the top of the rules.

The two-point arc broke the assumption that points come in ones.

Since 2025 a football point from outside the 40 metre arc is worth two, whether it comes from open play, a free or a 45. A three point margin can now close on one kick from distance, which makes exact margin prediction genuinely harder than it was and makes a tolerance band, within three points rather than exactly right, the fairer setting.

Hurling and football are not the same scoring system any more.

The arc applies to football only. Hurling still scores in ones and threes. If you run both codes on one leaderboard with one margin bonus, you are comparing two different maths problems and the hurling players will notice first. Score the codes separately, or set a different margin band for each.

Exact scoreline is a different competition to margin.

Asking somebody to call 1-15 to 0-16 is close to impossible and produces a leaderboard of zeroes. Asking for the winner is easy enough that a full field stays engaged to July. Margin sits between the two and is where most organisers land. Pick one deliberately rather than discovering in Round 2 that nobody has scored.

The rounds are no longer symmetrical.

Under the old group phase every county played three group games and a round was a round. In the qualifier series a county beaten in Round 1 and again in Round 2B is finished while another is still playing in Round 3, so the number of fixtures moves week to week. Flat points per correct call quietly weights the heavy rounds. Either weight by fixture count or accept the distortion on purpose.

A draw is not the end of the story.

Senior inter county matches run 70 minutes and championship fixtures do not always resolve inside them. Decide now whether a prediction is scored on the state of the match at full time or on the eventual result after extra time, because those two rules can hand the competition to different people and nobody will accept the answer if it arrives after the whistle.

What you can run for the championship.

Round by round predictions

A winner in every championship fixture, provincial rounds through to the All-Ireland final. The default, and the right call for a mixed room where plenty of people follow one county and nothing else.

Knockout brackets

Once the qualifier series reaches the quarter finals the championship is a bracket whether you run one or not. Fill it out in late June and watch it survive Round 3. Brackets are a shipped Fanzava format, scored round by round.

Confidence weighting

Rank your calls by how sure you are and score the rank. In a championship where the favourites usually come through, confidence is what separates the people who actually watch from the people reading a table.

Fantasy GAA and fantasy hurling

Not for Gaelic games, and we will not pretend otherwise. Fanzava's fantasy, which is not open yet, will be a draft league where players pick squads from club squad lists, and Gaelic games are not one of the sports it will draft from. Predictions are what runs for GAA.

Where Fanzava fits, said plainly.

Gaelic games are on the live data feed, in full.

Both All-Ireland senior championships, all four provincial championships, the National Football and Hurling Leagues, the Tailteann Cup and the Joe McDonagh, Christy Ring, Nicky Rackard and Lory Meagher Cups arrive automatically. Fixtures, throw-in times, lock countdowns and results, from the first provincial round in April to the final Sunday in July. You are running the competition, not maintaining the fixture list.

Your logo, your colours, your domain.

Paid plans run full white label across every screen, every email and every notification. Pro and above add a custom domain and a custom email sender, so the round reminder arrives from your address and nobody sees our name at any point.

Groups are how a GAA competition gets personal.

County against county, club against club, one parish against the next, or department against department in a workplace. Group leaderboards run alongside the overall one, and the Banter Board gives the slagging somewhere to live that is not somebody's inbox.

The admin is the reason these competitions die.

A GAA competition is almost always run by a volunteer with a full time job, which is the same reason the association itself works. What kills it in June is the spreadsheet: converting scorelines, chasing entries, rebuilding a table after a fixture moves. Results landing on their own and every leaderboard moving with them is the whole point.

Questions GAA organisers ask.

Are GAA fixtures and results automatic?: Yes. Gaelic football and hurling both run on the live data feed, from the provincial championships and the National Leagues through to the two All-Ireland finals, with the Tailteann Cup and the Joe McDonagh, Christy Ring, Nicky Rackard and Lory Meagher Cups alongside them. Fixtures, throw-in times, lock countdowns and results arrive without you touching them, and a rescheduled fixture carries the new time with it. The scoring rules are the only thing you set, and you set them once.
Is there fantasy GAA or fantasy hurling in Fanzava?: No. Fanzava's fantasy is not open yet, and when it opens it will be a draft league where players pick squads of real players from club squad lists. Gaelic games are not one of the sports it will draft from. What runs for GAA is predictions: round by round prediction leagues, knockout brackets and confidence weighting, under your own branding.
How should we handle goals and points in the scoring?: Convert to a total and say so in writing. A goal is three points, a point is one, and in football a point from outside the 40 metre arc has been worth two since 2025. Once everyone knows a margin means converted total points, the argument disappears. Leaving it unsaid is what produces the row, not the arithmetic.
Can we run football and hurling in the one competition?: You can, but run them as two competitions on one hub rather than one merged leaderboard. The two codes score differently now that the arc applies to football only, so a shared margin rule is comparing unlike things. Two leaderboards and one player list gives you the same room without the distortion.
Does the new championship format change how we set our competition up?: Yes, in one specific way. With the group phase gone, counties no longer play a guaranteed three matches each, so the number of fixtures in a round moves as the qualifier series thins out. If you score flat points per correct call, the heavy rounds carry more weight than the light ones. Weight by fixture count, or decide you are happy with it, but decide before Round 1.
Is there any betting or money involved?: None. There are no odds, no stakes and no wagering anywhere in Fanzava. It is a fan and workplace engagement platform, deliberately not a betting product. Predictions are predictions, and what people are playing for is the leaderboard and the bragging rights.
What does it cost?: Plans start free, with the free plan covering 25 players and one competition at a time. Paid plans are billed in euro, and the pricing page has the full breakdown.

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