Scotstown KO Newbridge after penalty shootout to advance to Ulster club SFC final

November 30, 2025

Shane Carey of Scotstown and Conor McGrogan of Newbridge ©INPHO/Andrew Paton

Scotstown will play Kilcoo in the Ulster club senior football championship final next Saturday week, December 13th, after coming through an epic against Sean O’Learys Newbridge at the Box-it Athletic Grounds this evening.

After last weekend’s showdown between the teams was called off at half-time due to conditions being deemed unplayable for the second-half at Healy Park, Omagh, 80 minutes couldn’t separate these two sides with Monaghan champions eventually claiming their place in the provincial decider after winning a penalty shootout.

David McCague’s side looked to be well on their way to a showdown with Kilcoo after Tommy Mallen’s goal midway through the second-half put them into a 2-14 to 1-9 lead, but Newbridge’s never-say-die saw them battling back remarkably to force extra time at the rain-soaked Armagh grounds.

Scotstown had dominated large portions of the first-half in normal time, with a goal from Micheál McCarville five minutes in and the scores of Francis Maguire, Shane Carey and McCarville (two-pointer) helping them to lead by 1-13 to 1-4 at the half.

The Derry champions had netted their first goal through Patrick McMullan in the 16th minute but looked way the second-best team, which was well and truly the case when Mallen hit them for a quick 1-1 between the 44th and 45th minutes.

However, Newbridge responded quickly with a superb Conleth McGrogan two-pointer and kept themselves in with an outside chance before Conor Doherty’s goal made it a four-point game in the 58th minute.

The next two scores came off the boot of Eamon Young, including a two-pointer in the first minute of injury-time, and Conor McAteer would land the equaliser two minutes later to leave the scoreboard reading 2-16 to 2-16 at the full-time whistle.

Oisin Doherty sailed over a two-pointer for the first score in extra time ahead of Scotstown levelling it up and the Farney kingpins edged ahead in the second-half through Jack McCarron before McAteer fisted over at the death to send the game to penalties (2-20 to 2-20).

Both sides converted their first two spot kicks, but Newbridge would miss their next two and it saw Darren Hughes’s rocket to the top corner sealing his club’s second Ulster final berth in three years.


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