Bellaghy GAC


Bellaghy Wolfe Tones Gaelic Athletic Club is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in Bellaghy, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. The club is a member of Derry GAA and currently competes in gaelic football and camogie.
Bellaghy have won 21 Derry Senior Football Championships, four Ulster Senior Club Football Championships and the 1971-72 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship. Bellaghy camogie club have won two Derry Senior Camogie Championships.

2020 Football Season

Public health measures were introduced in March 2020 in order to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result the proposed schedule of GAA games in Derry was severely disrupted.

2020 Championship Football

Derry GAA pitches were closed between March 2020 and June 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In response, the Derry Competitions Control Committee restructured the championships. The senior championship began with the sixteen senior teams playing in four groups of four. All sixteen teams progressed to the first knockout round with the group winners playing the fourth-placed teams and the second-placed teams playing the third-placed teams. The quarter-finals were determined by an open draw designed to avoid any repeat of the earlier group matches and the semi-finals by an open draw.
The remaining Derry championships were restructured in a similar manner.
Football Finals
Other Finals
In June 2020 it was decided to not play the league due to the coronavirus pandemic. No relegation or promotion occurred.
The table below lists the planned fixtures though no league games were played.

2020 Sean Larkin Cup

2020 Miscellaneous

2019 Championship Football

Football Finals
Other Finals
At the start of the 2019 season, the adult football leagues in Derry were restructured to Division 1A - 12 teams, Division 1B - 12 teams and Division 2 - 13 teams. Previously there were 16 teams in Division 1, 14 teams in Division 2 and 8 teams in Division 3. In 2019 two teams were relegated from Division 1A and two teams were promoted from Division 1B. All twelve teams in Division 1A in 2019 and four teams from Division 1B in 2019 qualified to compete in the 2020 senior championship.
2019 Division 1A Summary
2019 Division 1B Summary
2019 Other League Results
Bellaghy Reserves finished 3rd with 15 points.
Bellaghy Thirds finished 4th with 15 points.

2019 Sean Larkin Cup

A summer break was introduced in the Derry adult football leagues in 2018 to facilitate the Derry county teams competing in the Ulster senior football championship, the Ulster under-20 football championship and the Christy Ring Hurling Cup. During the break clubs competed without their county players in one of the regional cups – teams from North Derry competed in the Dr. Kerlin Cup and teams from South Derry competed in the Sean Larkin Cup.

2019 Miscellaneous

2018 Championship Football

After the 2018 season, the adult football leagues in Derry were restructured to Division 1A - 12 teams, Division 1B - 12 teams and Division 2 - 13 teams. Previously there were 16 teams in Division 1, 14 teams in Division 2 and 8 teams in Division 3. Five teams were relegated from 2018 Division 1 to the new Division 1B. The 2019 senior championship was competed for by the top 15 teams in the 2018 Division 1 and Banagher, the winners of the 2018 Division 2 and winners of a relegation/promotion playoff against Newbridge. Claudy, who finished 16th in 2018, were relegated to the 2019 intermediate football championship.
Division 1 Summary
Other League Results
The Division 1 League Cups were initiated in 2018 to provide football for club players during the summer break in the Division 1 League and to facilitate the Derry county teams. Clubs competed in one of the two League Cups without their county players who were part of the county panels competing in the Ulster senior football championship, the Ulster under-20 football championship and the Christy Ring Cup.
* Lavey withdrew from the competition.

2018 Miscellaneous

2017 Championship Football

2016 Championship Football

2015 Championship Football

Senior Football

Note: The above lists may be incomplete. Please add any other honours you know of.

Pitches

Bellaghy's main pitch, Páirc Seán de Brún, is named after their former club chairman Seán Brown who was attacked and abducted by a Loyalist Volunteer Force gang on the evening of 12 May 1997 as he locked the main gate of the GAA grounds on the Ballyscullion Road. Less than an hour later the body of the father-of-six was found lying beside his burnt-out car just off the Moneynick Road near Randalstown, County Antrim. He had been shot six times. On 19 January 2004 the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland published a report that was highly critical of the police investigation into Brown's killing.
The club also have two full-sized pitches and dressing rooms at Drumanee, just outside the village.

Notable Gaelic footballers