| League details | |
|---|---|
| Dates | 25 January – 25 October 2020 |
| Teams | 32 |
| League champions | |
| Winners | Kerry (21st win) |
| Captain | David Clifford |
| Manager | Peter Keane |
| League runners-up | |
| Runners-up | Dublin |
| Captain | Stephen Cluxton |
| Manager | Dessie Farrell |
| Other division winners | |
| Division 2 | Roscommon |
| Division 3 | Cork |
| Division 4 | Limerick |
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The 2020 National Football League, known for sponsorship reasons as the Allianz National Football League, is the 89th staging of the National Football League (NFL), an annual Gaelic football tournament for Gaelic Athletic Association county teams. Thirty-one county teams from the island of Ireland, plus London, compete. Kilkenny do not participate.
The league was originally scheduled to end in March 2020, but the public health measures introduced to combat the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the final two league rounds being delayed to October.[1][2][3] In June 2020 the GAA announced that the league finals would not be played with the division winners being determined by table position at the end of the league rounds. This was only the second NFL season to be decided without a final (the first was in 1935–36).[4]
The GAA announced a new broadcast agreement on 10 January 2019 that runs from 2019 until 2022. Eir Sport and RTÉ provide live TV coverage of the league on Saturday nights. TG4 broadcast Sunday afternoon games. The highlights programmes are RTÉ2's League Sunday on Sunday evenings, TG4's GAA 2019 on Monday evenings and Eir Sport's Allianz Leagues Reloaded on Wednesday evenings.[5][6]
London withdrew after Round 6 due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Gaelic games. A meeting was held on 12 September.[clarification needed]
On 24 October, Kerry became the Division 1 champions, with 11 points from their seven games.[7]