Roscommon and Kildare meet for first time

Roscommon and Kildare meet in the football qualifiers for the first time ever at Portlaoise, this evening.

Bank of Ireland SFC qualifier Round 4

Roscommon v Kildare, Portlaoise, Roscommon, 6.15pm

Roscommon and Kildare meet in the football qualifiers for the first time ever at Portlaoise, this evening.

The meeting of the counties is sure to attract a big crowd to O'Moore Park, home of recently-crowned Leinster champions, Laois.

Leinster finalists Kildare failed to make it to the All-Ireland quarter-finals in each of the last two years while Roscommon qualified as Connacht champions in 2001 but lost to Galway.

Roscommon, who lost to Galway in the Connacht quarter-final, have won three qualifiers in dramatic circumstances, beating Cork and Leitrim by a point each and going to extra-time before dismissing Offaly's challenge.

How They Got Here

Kildare

Laois 2-13 Kildare 1-13 (Leinster final)

Kildare 0-15 Meath 1-11 (Leinster semi-final)

Kildare 1-14 Longford 2-6 (Leinster quarter-final)

Roscommon

Roscommon 1-20 Offaly 1-15 (AET - Qualifier R2)

Roscommon 0-14 Cork 1-10 (Qualifier R1)

Galway 0-12 Roscommon 0-8 (Connacht quarter-final)

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