There are 57 teams competing in the Etihad Airways GAA World Games across 8 different competitions in Hurling, Football, Camoige and Ladies Football. Over 25 of the teams are non-Irish teams which highlights the huge development that has gone on around the World in Gaelic Games. 

The games will take place in UCD starting on Tuesday 9th of August at 09:30 a.m and will finish up at 18:30 p.m. on that day. On Wednesday, games will take place again in UCD, starting at 9:00 a.m and finishing up at 19:00 p.m. Thursday will see the Plate and Shield competitions reach their climax with then finals scheduled for mid afternoon in both and all these matches will be played in UCD.  

There will be a finals day in Croke Park starting at 11:00 on Friday, with 8 finals happening throughout the course of the day. In total there will be over 300 matches played over the course of the Etihad Airways GAA World Games.