League as Championship proposal could earn GAA an extra €10m

Former Meath minor football manager Conor O’Donoghue, a member of the national calendar fixtures task-force, has based his projections on the pre-Covid 2018 and 2019 seasons

The Sam Maguire Cup. Croke Park has not yet presented any data on how the two proposed championship reconfigurations might affect gate receipts. Picture credit: Brendan Moran / SPORTSFILE

The League as Championship proposal could earn the GAA over €10m more in gate receipts alone than they would do from a regular senior inter-county football season.

That is according to analysis done by former Meath minor football manager Conor O’Donoghue, a member of the national calendar fixtures task-force.