Breffni Park
| Páirc Bhreifne | |
| Location | Cavan, County Cavan, Republic of Ireland |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 53°58′55″N 7°21′33″W / 53.98194°N 7.35917°WCoordinates: 53°58′55″N 7°21′33″W / 53.98194°N 7.35917°W |
| Public transit | Tractamotors bus stop |
| Owner | Cavan GAA |
| Capacity | 32,000 |
| Field size | 143 x 86 m |
| Surface | Grass |
| Scoreboard | Yes |
| Opened | 1923 |
| Website | |
| cavangaa.ie | |
Breffni Park—known for sponsorship reasons as Kingspan Breffni Park— is a GAA stadium in Cavan, Republic of Ireland.
It is the home of the Cavan Gaelic football team. The ground has an overall capacity of about 32,000 with a 6,000 seated capacity.Breffni is the historic name for area of Cavan/Leitrim. Cavan is often referred to as the Breffni County. The opening game of the 2013 International Rules Series took place in Breffni Park in October.
Kingspan Breffni Park is located on Park Lane to the south of Cavan town, see Map In 2006, the first ever women's match in international rules football was played between Australia and Ireland there. The venue also holds the world record for the twelve-hour continuous relay race.
Kingspan Breffni Park was opened in 1923. The opening was attended by Eoin O'Duffy who gave a speech calling on the GAA to "bring together all sections of the Irish people" to "save the youth of Ireland from the sea of moral degradation into which they were travelling".
In June 2009, the world record for the twelve-hour continuous relay race was broken by 1,868 participants.
The 2009 Cavan Camogie Development Fun Day to promote the development of camogie at underage levels was held at Kingspan Breffni Park on 7 June 2009.
Kingspan Breffni Park regularly hosts matches in the Ulster Senior Football Championship. In the Ulster Senior Football Championship 2009, it hosted Cavan's unexpected 0–13 to 1–09 quarter-final defeat of Fermanagh. Critics had beforehand doubted Cavan's ability to win the match.The Belfast Telegraph described it as Cavan's "most inept championship performance for some time", saying Fermanagh were "gunned down".
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