The GAA have confirmed the seedings for the Group Stage Draws in the Sam Maguire and Tailteann Cups, which will take place at 1 pm today.
The Draws will be presented by Gráinne Mc Elwain and conducted by the President of the GAA Larry McCarthy alongside former Dublin footballer Paddy Andrews for the Sam Maguire Draw and former Laois footballer Ross Munnelly for the Tailteann Cup.
The draws will be broadcast live on GAA.ie and available on the @OfficialGAA and @GAAGO social media channels.
The first and second seeds will not be known specifically until after the four Provincial Finals have been played.
The winners will be the first seeds and the runners-up the second seeds in the Sam Maguire Draw.
The third seeds will be Mayo, Roscommon, Tyrone and Monaghan with the fourth seeds made up of Donegal, Cork, Kildare and Westmeath.
This means it is possible that one of the groups could be made up of three Ulster teams. The split of the third seeds between Connacht and Ulster means that there will be no more than two Leinster or two Munster teams in any of the groups.
In the Tailteann Cup the first seeds are Meath, Cavan, Fermanagh and Limerick; the second seeds are Down, Offaly, Antrim and Wicklow; the third seeds are Longford, Tipperary, Laois and Wexford and the fourth seeds are Leitrim, Carlow, Waterford and London
The schedule of games for the group stages of the Sam Maguire Cup will be:
Round 1 (first named team at home)
20-21.05.2023 (Sat/Sun)
Seed 1 (Munster/Connacht Champions v Seed 3) Seed 2 (Munster/Connacht Runners Up v Seed 4)
27-28.05.2023 (Sat/Sun)
Seed 1 (Leinster/Ulster Champions v Seed 3) Seed 2 (Leinster/Ulster Runners Up v Seed 4)
Round 2 (first named team at home)
03-04.06.2023 (Sat/Sun)
Seed 3 v Seed 2
Seed 4 v Seed 1
Round 3 (Neutral venues) 17-18.06.2023 (Sat/Sun)
Seed 1 v Seed 2
Seed 3 v Seed 4
