Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster organise four provincial championships on a knock-out basis.

All the teams beaten in the provincial matches (except New York) enter the All-Ireland Qualifiers in rounds 1, 2 and 4.

The qualifier matches are knock-out and eventually result in four teams who play in the All-Ireland Quarter-Finals against the four provincial winners.

RTÉ, the national broadcaster in Ireland provided live television coverage of the championship.

[3][4] Australia's terrestrial Seven Network announced it would not broadcast Gaelic games following its coverage of the 2014 Championship.

[7] All televised games from the football and hurling championships, as broadcast by both RTÉ and Sky were available to watch on GAAGO.

The teams were designated as A or B depending on which half of their provincial championships they were initially drawn to play in.

The first round consisted of all teams that failed to reach their provincial semi-finals, with the exception of New York.

The round 2 draw was unrestricted − if two teams had played each other in a provincial match they could be drawn to meet again.

[9] Round 4 rules did not allow two teams that had played each other in a provincial match to meet again if such a pairing could be avoided.

Dublin's Jack McCaffrey was named as The Sunday Game player of the year.