This year’s Masters Football finals will take place today in Kilkeerin-Clonberne.

The curtain raiser will be the Shield Final between Donegal and Offaly which throws in at 1.30pm followed by the Senior Final between Mayo and Cavan at 3.15pm.

The Shield final features two newcomers this year Donegal and Offaly have both impressed in their first year back in Masters football and it should be an even contest.

There will be new winners this year in the Senior final too.

Since the start of the GMA era of Masters football Galway with three titles in a row 2012-14, and Tyrone last year have shared the spoils.

Mayo and Cavan however both prevailed in narrow semi final wins over former champions Tyrone and Galway respectively and are no strangers to All Ireland Masters Finals either both having won Shield Finals and contested Senior finals over the last four years.

Mayo with a few more recognisable names, former Mayo senior players like Kenny Mortimer, Aidan Higgins, David Tiernan, Fergal Kelly and Declan Sweeney have been touted as favourites but anyone who knows Masters football well realise it's a squad game and much of the backbone of Masters panels are not just the former inter-county stars but the solid good quality club footballers who still turn out regularly for their clubs.

In this respect Cavan probably have an edge they have former Cavan senior star Jason O Reilly in their ranks and a few others with inter county experience at various grades but more players still currently active in senior and intermediate grades of club football in Cavan.

It's always a fascinating contest between the form of those still playing regularly and the class of those who have played at the highest level. Again it promises to be an absorbing, intensely competitive and close encounter.

Throw in for Senior final is 3.15pm.