Sligo senior football team
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| Irish: | Sligeach | |
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| Province: | Connacht | |
| Nickname(s): | The Yeats County | |
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| Ground(s): | Markievicz Park, Sligo | |
| Dominant sport: | Gaelic football | |
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| NFL: | Division 3 | |
| NHL: | Division 3B | |
| Football Championship: | Sam Maguire Cup | |
| Hurling Championship: | Nicky Rackard Cup | |
| Ladies' Gaelic football: | Brendan Martin Cup | |
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The Sligo County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) (Irish: Cumann Luthchleas Gael Coiste Contae Sligeach) or Sligo GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Sligo. The county board is also responsible for the Sligo inter-county teams.
Sligo play in the Connacht Senior Football Championship but have only managed to ever win three senior provincial titles, winning in 1928, 1975 and 2007. Sligo have never appeared in an All-Ireland final. The 1922 Championship is the closest they have come, defeating Roscommon, Mayo and Galway to win the Connacht title, and beating Tipperary in the subsequent All-Ireland semi-final that followed. However, "a flimsy technicality" led to a replay of the Connacht final against Galway, which Sligo lost.
In club football, no Sligo team has ever appeared in an All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship final. St. Mary's is the only Sligo team to have ever won the Connacht Senior Club Football Championship, having won it three times in 1977, 1980 and 1983. Eastern Harps, Curry and Tourlestrane have all appeared in Connacht finals.
Due to a much smaller population than both County Galway and County Mayo, the two dominant forces in the province, together with competition from professional League of Ireland soccer team Sligo Rovers in the county's capital town, Sligo's Gaelic football team have never been able to break free of the shackles inherent in the provincial championship format. They have won only three Connacht championships, with an approximate gap of fifty years between each win. These championships came in 1928, 1975 and 2007. The continuation of such a run would not see the Connacht title return to Sligo until some point in the middle of the 21st century.
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