Thursday, February 19, 2026 – Armagh: Hockey Eire are delighted to announce that Ulster’s Royal Faculty Armagh will host the 2026 All-Eire Schoolgirls’ Championship, going down this March 19 & 20, 2026.
Relationship again to 1980, the historic competitors is an annual spotlight within the hockey calendar and is thought to be the best degree of schoolgirls’ hockey performed in Eire, that includes the highest groups from throughout all 4 provinces. 2026 is an historic yr within the competitors, with the choice made to increase the variety of competing colleges from the 5 Senior Cup winners – these being Leinster, Leinster South, Ulster, Munster and Connacht Senior Cups – to additionally embrace the Leinster, Ulster and Munster Senior League winners.
Alongside the enlargement in groups is a brand-new format which can transfer away from the earlier five-team round-robin event to a pool format. Groups will probably be positioned in considered one of two swimming pools of 4 groups with each workforce taking part in one another as soon as. The highest workforce in every pool will play for the Kate Russell Cup, whereas second in every pool go head-to-head for the Daphne Corridor Cup, two awards recognising the distinctive contribution of two of schoolgirls’ hockey’s most influential figures.
Royal Faculty Armagh will probably be given the honour of internet hosting this yr’s All-Eire Schoolgirls Championship. The Ulster college grew to become the primary aspect to qualify for this yr’s competitors, successful their fourth consecutive Ulster Stevenson Cup in November 2025 after they beat Banbridge Academy. RSA are nicely acquainted with the All-Eire Schoolgirls Championship having final gained the competitors in 2024, successful their fifth title since first lifting the trophy in 2002.
Their schoolgrounds will play host to half of the competitors throughout the 2 days, internet hosting each the Kate Russell and Daphne Corridor Ultimate on March 20, whereas close by Armagh Hockey Membership would be the second pitch utilised.
Following the announcement, Royal Faculty Armagh Head Coach Greg Thompson mentioned:
“It’s a enormous honour for the Royal Faculty, Armagh to be chosen because the host for the 2026 All-Eire Schoolgirls Championships. The transfer to an eight-team pool format is a big step ahead for the sport, making certain a extra intense and aggressive construction for the gamers.
As a bunch, we’ve labored extremely onerous since our Stevenson Cup win in November to organize for this degree of competitors. We’ve such fond reminiscences of internet hosting and successful this event again in 2024; to have the chance to defend that legacy in entrance of a house crowd as soon as once more is one thing the women are relishing. We will’t wait to get began on March nineteenth.”
Additional particulars on match schedules, ticketing, and occasion activations will probably be introduced in the end.
Additional particulars on match schedules, ticketing, and occasion activations will probably be introduced in the end.
