Rory Beggan tops two-pointer chart for 2025
Monaghan goalkeeper Rory Beggan scores a two-pointer from play after the first half hooter during the GAA Football All-Ireland Senior Championship quarter-final match between Monaghan and Donegal at Croke Park in Dublin. Photo by Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile.
Rory Beggan was the two-point king in this year's football league and championship.
In a very competitive field the Monaghan goalkeeper came out on top with a total of 24 converted two-pointers.
That put him just one ahead of both Down's Pat Havern and Westmeath's Luke Loughlin on 23 each.
Two more players converted 20 or more two-pointers- Galway's Shane Walsh (22) and Louth's Sam Mulroy (20).
The advent of the two-point score from beyond the arc clearly encouraged teams to kick from distance more frequently.
98% of matches in League and Championship (209 of 214 matches) featured a least one two-pointer scored.
The most two-pointers score in a single game was the 13 registered in the Leinster SFC clash between Meath and Offaly.
On average, 22 per cent of scores in the League and championship came from two-pointers.
The match with the highest percentage of two-pointers was the Allianz Football League Division 1 match between Galway and Donegal when 57 per cent of scores came from two-pointers.
2025's two-point top scorers in League and Championship
24: Rory Beggan (Monaghan)
23: Pat Havern (Down), Luke Loughlin (Westmeath)
22: Shane Walsh (Galway)
20: Sam Mulroy (Louth)
18: Sean O'Shea (Kerry)
15: David Clifford (Kerry)
13: Mark Cronin (Cork), Jason Curry (Waterford), Eoghan Frayne (Meath), Diarmuid Murtagh (Roscommon)
12: Alex Beirne (Kildare), Matthew Carey (Longford)
11: Dominic McEnhill (Antrim)
10: Shane McGuigan (Derry), Daire Ó Baoill (Donegal), Ethan Rafferty (Armagh)
