Waterford Ladies Football National League Fixtures are announced.

Waterford will begin the 2013 Ladies Football National League campaign with a home game against beaten All-Ireland Senior Finalist Kerry on February 3.

The two sides met in the 2012 League campaign at Castleisland on March 11 where in what was a high scoring game the home side ran out winners by the smallest possible margin on a 3-16 to 5-9 scoreline and on home soil, Waterford will be hoping to reverse the outcome of the game and get their bid to move back up to division one off to the best possible start.

Waterford’s second game is away to Galway which could prove to be a very tough encounter. When the two sides clashed at the Saint Mollerans club grounds in Carrickbeg in the 2012 league, it was the visitors that came out on top winning 1-13 to 1-8.

Game three in the league is a home game against Westmeath. The midlander’s won the third division of the league in 2012. In the championship they played in the senior ranks where they reached the quarter final stages but were comprehensively beaten by Kerry.

The first of two trips to Ulster will happen on March 3 when Cavan will provide the opposition. When the sides met in Fraher Field in the spring of this year, Waterford won the game 2-7 to 0-10 and their second trip north takes place on March 24 when they travel to Fermanagh. The sides clashed at Fraher Field in the 2012 league campaign where Waterford came out on top on a 2-9 to 2-7 scoreline and when they clashed later in the year in the All-Ireland semi finals things were just as tight.

Waterford’s penultimate game in the league is against Clare at a home venue for the Déise Girls. The sides met at Doonbeg in the 2012 league campaign where the home side ran out winners on a 0-18 to 1-8 scoreline.

Waterford’s last game in the league is an away game against Kildare who dropped down from division one after the 2012 league campaign where they finished the campaign with just one point, having drawn with Meath.

Meanwhile, the Munster Ladies Football Council has made the draws for the 2013 Jim Kennedy Cup which proceeds the league.

Waterford are drawn in group one along with Limerick and IT Tralee in group one, while Mary Immaculate College from Limerick, Cork and Tipperary clash in group two.

Waterford’s first game will take place at a date to be confirmed not later that January 13, and by a week later they must have played IT Tralee.

The top team in each group will contest the final which has been pencilled in to take place on January 27.

National League Fixtures 2013 - Division 2
Round 1 - 3rd February V Kerry
Round 2 -10th February V Galway
Round 3 -17th February V Westmeath
Round 4 - 3rd March V Cavan
Round 5 - 24th March V Fermanagh
Round 6 - 31st March V Clare
Round 7 - 6th April V Kildare
Playoffs 13/14 April
Semi-Finals 28th April
Final 11th May

 

2012 Bord Gais Energy Ladies Football National League Table.

	Played	Won	Lost	Drawn	Points For	Points Against	Points Diff	Points
Mayo	7	6	0	1	128	90	38	19
Galway	7	5	2	0	130	115	15	15
Clare	7	4	3	0	139	126	13	12
Kerry	7	4	3	0	150	108	42	12
Waterford	7	3	4	0	114	117	-3	9
Fermanagh	7	2	4	1	123	134	-11	7
Cavan	7	2	5	0	69	116	-47	6
Tipperary	7	1	6	0	100	147	-47	3