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Connacht Senior Football Championship

Annual Gaelic football competition played on two continents

Field	Value
name	Connacht Senior Football Championship
currentlyrunning	2026 Connacht Senior Football Championship
irish	Craobh Sinsir Peile Connachta
code	Gaelic football
founded
region	Connacht
teams	7
title holders	[[File: Colours of Galway.svg	20px	border]]
currentordinal	51
most titles	[[File: Colours of Galway.svg	20px	border]]
mostordinal	51
sponsors	SuperValu, Allianz, AIB
tv	RTÉ
motto	Experience The Unforgettable
website	Official website

The Connacht Senior Football Championship, known simply as the Connacht Championship and shortened to Connacht SFC, is an annual Gaelic football competition for the senior county teams of Connacht GAA. All of the county teams of Connacht participate in the championship, as well as London and New York. The winning team receives the Nestor Cup.

The Connacht SFC is run on a knock-out basis through which teams are eliminated from the competition. A series of games are played during the summer months and the final is played in June or July. The winner and runner-up progresses directly to the All-Ireland SFC Group Stage. Before 2020, all losing teams progressed to the All-Ireland SFC Qualifiers, while, prior to 2001, the All-Ireland SFC was a straight knock-out format, which meant all losing teams were eliminated after a single defeat.

Galway are the four-time title holder, having defeated Mayo by 1-17 to 1–15 in the 2025 final

History

Galway are Connacht's most successful county, with 51 Connacht SFC titles and 9 All-Ireland SFC titles. Mayo are next, with 47 Connacht SFC titles and 3 All-Ireland SFC titles. Roscommon have won the Connacht SFC title 24 times, most recently in 2019, as well having won 2 All-Ireland SFC titles. Apart from those three, no other team competing in Connacht has won an All-Ireland SFC title.

Sligo have won the Nestor Cup three times, most recently in 2007. Leitrim have won the competition twice, most recently in 1994.

London have competed in the Connacht SFC since 1975, while New York joined in 1999. In this time London have managed three victories: one in 1977 and two in 2013, against Sligo and Leitrim. New York recorded their first, and, so far, only, victory in the championship over Leitrim in 2023.

The competing counties play for the JJ Nestor Cup, which is presented to the winning captain on Connacht Final Day.

Connacht SFC moments

Leitrim 0–12 – 2–4 Mayo (24 July 1994):
Sligo 1–10 – 0–12 Galway (8 July 2007):
Mayo 5–11 – 0–10 London (21 July 2013):
New York 0–15 pen – 0–15 Leitrim (8 April 2023):

Teams

2026 Championship

Seven counties will compete in the 2026 Connacht Senior Football Championship: the five counties in the Irish province of Connacht and the two foreign-based teams of London and New York.

County team	Location	Stadium	Province	Pos.
2024	Champ.
titles	Last
champ.
title	All-Ire.
titles	Last
All-Ire.
title
[[File:Colours_of_Galway.svg	border	20x20px]]	Galway	Pearse Stadium	Connacht	Winner	51	2025	9	2001
[[File:Colours_of_Leitrim.svg	border	20x20px]]	Carrick-on-Shannon	Páirc Seán Mac Diarmada	Connacht	Semi-finalist	2	1994	0
[[File:Colours_of_London.svg	border	20x20px]]	South Ruislip	McGovern Park	Britain	Quarter-finalist	0		0
[[File:Colours_of_Mayo.svg	border	20x20px]]	Castlebar	MacHale Park	Connacht	Finalist	47	2021	3	1951
[[File:Colors_of_New_York.svg	border	20x20px]]	Bronx	Gaelic Park	North America	Quarter-finalist	0		0
[[File:Colours_of_Roscommon.svg	border	20x20px]]	Roscommon	Dr Hyde Park	Connacht	Semi-finalist	24	2019	2	1944
[[File:Colours_of_Sligo.svg	border	20x20px]]	Sligo	Markievicz Park	Connacht	Quarter-finalist	3	2007	0

List of teams

The following teams have competed in the Connacht SFC for at least one season.

App.	Debut	Most recent	Connacht SFC titles	Last Connacht SFC title	Best Connacht SFC result
—	1900	2025	51	2025	Winner
—	1906	2025	2	1994	Winner
—	1975	2025	0	—	Runner-up
—	1901	2025	47	2021	Winner
25	1999	2025	0	—	Semi-finalist
—	1901	2025	24	2019	Winner
—	1905	2025	3	2007	Winner

Personnel and kits

County team	Manager	Captain(s)	Sponsors
[[File:Colours of Galway.svg	border	20x20px]]	Pádraic Joyce	Seán Kelly	Supermac's
[[File:Colours of Leitrim.svg	border	20x20px]]	Micheal Grahame	Donal Wrynn	J. P. Clarke's Saloon, New York
[[File:Colours of London.svg	border	20x20px]]	Michael Maher	Liam Gavaghan	Clayton Hotel
[[File:Colours of Mayo.svg	border	20x20px]]	Andy Moran	Jack Coyne	Intersport Elverys
[[File:Colors of New York.svg	border	20x20px]]	Johnny McGeeney	Johnny Glynn	Navillus
[[File:Colours of Roscommon.svg	border	20x20px]]	Mark Dowd	Brian Stack	Ballymore
[[File:Colours of Sligo.svg	border	20x20px]]	Dessie Sloyan & Eamonn O'Hara		AbbVie

List of finals

Legend

	All-Ireland SFC runner-up

List of Connacht SFC finals

Year	Date	Winner	Runner-up	Venue	Winning captain	Winning margin	Referee	Attendance	County team	Score
1900
1901	9 November 1902		2-4		0-3	Claremorris		7
1902
1903	23 April 1905		1-2		0-4	Claremorris		1
1904	23 April 1905		3-6		0-1	Claremorris		14
1905	27 May 1906		0-7		0-5	Tuam		2
1906	7 April 1907		2-13		0-5	Claremorris		14
1907	26 May 1908		3-9		0-1	Tuam		17
1908	31 January 1909		2-5		0-4	Tuam		7
1909	30 October 1910		1-4		0-3	Ballina		4
1910	6 November		1-3		1-2	Athlone		2
1911	24 September		won		scr	Claremorris
1912	15 September		0-2		0-0	Castlerea		2
1913	28 September		1-2		0-3	Castlerea		2
1914	17 October 1915		1-2		0-1	Boyle		4
1915	26 September		3-1		1-3	Castlerea		1
1916	1 October		1-5		0-3	Castlerea		5
1917	7 October		1-4		1-1	Castlerea		4
1918	22 September		0-4		0-1	Castlerea		3
1919	3 August		1-6		0-5	Tuam		4
1920	22 August		2-3		1-4	Castlerea		2
1921	25 March 1923		1-4		0-1	Castlerea		7
1922	2 September 1923
30 September 1923		1-7
2-4 *		3-2
2-2	Tuam
Croke Park		2
1923	4 May 1924		0-3		0-2	Tuam		1
1924	19 October
9 November		0-1
2-6 (R)		0-1
0-5 (R)	Balla
Tuam		7
1925	18 October		1-5		1-3	Tuam		2
1926	11 July		3-2		1-2	Roscommon		6
1927	7 August		2-4		0-3	Roscommon		7
1928	5 August		1-4		0-6	Tuam		1
1929	21 July		1-6		0-4	Roscommon		5
1930	10 August		1-7		1-2	Tuam		5
1931	9 August		2-10		3-2	Sligo		8
1932	7 August		2-6		0-7	Tuam		5
1933	23 July		1-7		1-5	Castlerea	Michael Donnellan	2
1934	22 July		2-4		0-5	Castlerea	Michael Higgins	5
1935	21 July		0-12		0-5	Roscommon		7
1936	19 July
2 August		2-4
2-7 (R)		1-7
1-4 (R)	St. Coman's Park	Séamus O'Malley	6
1937	18 July		3-5		0-8	St. Coman's Park		6
1938	17 July		0-8		0-5	St. Coman's Park	John "Tull" Dunne	3
1939	16 July		2-6 *		0-3	St. Coman's Park		9
1940	21 July		1-7		0-5	St. Coman's Park	John "Tull" Dunne	5
1941	20 July		0-8		1-4	St. Coman's Park	Dinny O'Sullivan	1
1942	19 July		2-6		3-2	Ballinasloe	Charlie Connolly	4
1943	18 July		2-6		0-8	St. Coman's Park	Jimmy Murray	6
1944	6 August		2-11		1-6	Tuam	Jimmy Murray	8
1945	22 July		2-6		1-7	St. Coman's Park		2
1946	21 July
11 August		1-4
1-9*		0-6
1-2	St. Coman's Park	Jimmy Murray	7
1947	20 July		2-12		1-8	Ballina		7
1948	18 July
25 July		2-4
2-10 (R)		1-7
2-7 (R)	St. Coman's Park	John Forde	3
1949	31 July		4-6		0-3	St. Coman's Park		15
1950	16 July		1-7		0-4	St Jarlath's Park	Seán Flanagan	6
1951	15 July		4-13		2-3	St Jarlath's Park	Seán Flanagan	14
1952	13 July		3-5		0-6	MacHale Park		8
1953	19 July		1-6		0-6	St. Coman's Park		3
1954	18 July		2-10		3-4	St Jarlath's Park		3
1955	17 July		3-11		1-3	St Jarlath's Park		14
1956	15 July		3-12		1-5	Markievicz Park	Jack Mangan	14
1957	14 July		4-8		0-4	Pearse Stadium		20
1958	13 July		2-10		1-11	St. Coman's Park		2
1959	9 August		5-8		0-12	Markievicz Park	Seán Purcell	9
1960	10 July		2-5		0-5	Markievicz Park		6
1961	9 July		1-11		2-7	MacHale Park		1
1962	22 July		3-7		2-9	MacHale Park	Gerry O'Malley	1
1963	14 July		4-11		1-8	MacHale Park	Mick Garrett	12
1964	19 July		2-12		1-5	St Jarlath's Park	John Donnellan	10
1965	1 August		1-12		2-6	St Jarlath's Park	Enda Colleran	3
1966	17 July		0-12		1-8	MacHale Park	Enda Colleran	1
1967	16 July		4-15		0-7	St Jarlath's Park		20
1968	21 July		2-10		2-9	MacHale Park		1
1969	20 July
3 August		0–11
1-11 (14)		1-8
1-8 (11)	Pearse Stadium
MacHale Park		3
1970	12 July		2-15 (21)		1-8 (11)	Pearse Stadium		10
1971	11 July
25 July		2–15
1-17 (R)		2–15
3-10 (R)	MacHale Park	Liam Sammon	1
1972	16 July		5-8		3-10	MacHale Park		4
1973	8 July		1-17		2-12	MacHale Park	Liam Sammon	2
1974	14 July		2-14		0-8	Pearse Stadium	Gay Mitchell	12
1975	6 July
20 July		2–10
2-10 (R)		1–13
0-15 (R)	Markievicz Park
MacHale Park	Barnes Murphy	1
1976	4 July
18 July		1-8
1-14 (R)		1-8
0-9 (R)	MacHale Park
St Jarlath's Park		5		18,000
16,000
1977	10 July		1-12		2-8	Dr Hyde Park		14		18,000
1978	9 July		2-7		0-9	Pearse Stadium		4		17,000
1979	15 July		3-15		2-10	MacHale Park		9		23,700
1980	13 July		3-13		0-8	Dr Hyde Park	Danny Murray	14		17,880
1981	12 July		0-12		0-4	MacHale Park		8
1982	11 July		3-17		0-10	St Jarlath's Park	Gay McManus	16		18,000
1983	17 July		1-13		1-10	MacHale Park	Séamus McHugh	3		18,000
1984	8 July		2-13		2-9	Pearse Stadium	Séamus McHugh	4		17,560
1985	14 July		2-11		0-8	Dr Hyde Park		9		18,000
1986	13 July		1-8		1-5	Dr Hyde Park	Tomás Tierney	3		13,000
1987	12 July		0-8		0-7	MacHale Park	Val Daly	1		25,000
1988	24 July		1-12		0-8	Dr Hyde Park	Dermot Flanagan	7		20,000
1989	23 July
30 July		0–12
3-14 (R)		1-9
2-13 (R)	MacHale Park
Dr Hyde Park	Jimmy Browne	4		20,000
1990	22 July		0-16		1-11	Dr Hyde Park	Paul Earley	2		18,000
1991	14 July
28 July		0–14
0-13 (R)		0–14
1-9 (R)	MacHale Park
Dr Hyde Park	John Newton	1		25,000
24,000 (R)
1992	26 July		1-14		0-10	MacHale Park	Peter Ford	7		30,000
1993	25 July		1-5		0-7	Dr Hyde Park	Kevin Beirne	1		26,000
1994	24 July		0-12		2-4	Dr Hyde Park	Declan Darcy	2		18,271
1995	23 July		0-17		1-7	St Jarlath's Park	Jarlath Fallon	7		17,000
1996	21 July		3-9		1-11	MacHale Park	Noel Connelly	4
1997	3 August		0-11		1-7	Dr Hyde Park	Noel Connelly	1		22,000
1998	19 July
1 August		0–11
1-17 (R)		0–11
0-17 (R)	St Jarlath's Park
Dr Hyde Park	Ray Silke	3		25,000
30,000 (R)
1999	18 July		1-14		1-10	St Jarlath's Park	Kenneth Mortimer	4		31,000
2000	30 July		1-13		0-8	Dr Hyde Park	Pádraic Joyce	8		28,000
2001	1 July		2-10		1-12	Dr Hyde Park	Fergal O'Donnell	1	S McCormack (Meath)	28,000
2002	30 June		1-11		0-11	MacHale Park	Pádraic Joyce	3	J McKee (Armagh)	14,000
2003	6 July		1-14		0-13	Pearse Stadium	Kevin Walsh	4	M Monahan (Kildare)
2004	18 July		2-13		0-9	MacHale Park	Fergal Costello	10	B White (Wexford)	34,790
2005	10 July		0-10		0-8	Pearse Stadium	Pádraic Joyce	2	J. Gainey	29,711
2006	16 July		0-12		1-8	MacHale Park	David Heaney	1	P. Russell (Tipperary)	34,613
2007	8 July		1-10		0-12	Dr Hyde Park	Noel McGuire	1		11,317
2008	13 July		2-12		1-14	MacHale Park	Pádraic Joyce	1	David Coldrick (Meath)	31,789
2009	19 July		2-12		1-14	Pearse Stadium	Trevor Mortimer	1		25,627
2010	18 July		0-14		0-13	MacHale Park	Peter Domican	1	Jimmy White (Donegal)	25,300
2011	17 July		0-13		0-11	Dr Hyde Park	Alan Dillon	2	Michael Collins (Cork)	25,609
2012	15 July		0-12		0-10	Dr Hyde Park	Andy Moran	2	Cormac Reilly (Meath)	23,257
2013	21 July		5-11		0-10	MacHale Park	Andy Moran	16	Conor Lane (Cork)	21,274
2014	13 July		3-14		0-16	MacHale Park	Andy Moran	7	Rory Hickey (Clare)	26,738
2015	19 July		6-25		2-11	Dr Hyde Park	Keith Higgins	26	Padraig O'Sullivan (Kerry)	23,196
2016	10 July
17 July		0–13
3-16 (R)		1–10
0-14(R)	Pearse Stadium
MacHale Park	Gary O'Donnell	11 (R)	Ciaran Branagan (Down)	24,324
15,960 (R)
2017	9 July		2-15		0-12	Pearse Stadium	Ciarán Murtagh	9	David Gough (Meath)	18,287
2018	17 June		0-16		2-6	Dr Hyde Park	Damien Comer	4	David Coldrick (Meath)	18,864
2019	16 June		1-13		0-12	Pearse Stadium	Enda Smith	4	Barry Cassidy (Derry)	17,639
2020	15 November		0-14		0-13	Pearse Stadium	Aidan O'Shea	1	Sean Hurson (Tyrone)	0
2021	25 July		2-14		2-8	Croke Park	Aidan O'Shea	6	Conor Lane (Cork)	18,000
2022	29 May		2-19		2-16	Pearse Stadium	Seán Kelly	3	Joe McQuillan (Cavan)	21,419
2023	7 May		2-20		0-12	MacHale Park	Seán Kelly	14	Brendan Cawley (Kildare)	11,867
2024	5 May		0-16		0-15	Pearse Stadium	Seán Kelly	1	David Gough (Meath)	19,193
2025	4 May		1–17		1–15	MacHale Park	Leo McNicholas	2	Paddy Neilan (Roscommon)	27,137

Notes

1888–1891: No Connacht representative in All-Ireland series
1892: represented the province
1893–1899: No Connacht representative in All-Ireland series
1900: unopposed
1902: unopposed
1922: Objection – refixed
1939: Game unfinished – awarded to
1934: withdrew until 1941.
1938: until 1940.
1946: Objection and counter-objection – replay ordered
1950: withdrew until 1952.
1975: join the championship.
1999: join the championship.
2001: withdrew due to Foot and Mouth disease.
2025-2017: Preliminary round for fixture originally a Quarter-final revert to in 2018.
2020: withdrew for 1 year while and for 2 years due to COVID-19.

Team records and statistics

Roll of honour

Legend

– Connacht SFC winner or runner-up also won the All-Ireland SFC that year.

Performance by team

County team	Title(s)	Runner-up	Championships won
51	34	1900, 1902, 1910, 1911, 1913, 1917, 1919, 1922, [](1925-all-ireland-senior-football-championship-final), 1926, 1933, [](1934-all-ireland-senior-football-championship-final), [](1938-all-ireland-senior-football-championship-final), 1940, 1941, 1942, 1945, 1954, [](1956-all-ireland-senior-football-championship-final), 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1963, [](1964-all-ireland-senior-football-championship-final), [](1965-all-ireland-senior-football-championship-final), [](1966-all-ireland-senior-football-championship-final), 1968, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1995, [](1998-all-ireland-senior-football-championship-final), 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2016, 2018, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025	1901, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1912, 1918, 1923, 1924, 1927, 1929, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1939, 1943, 1948, 1951, 1961, 1962, 1969, 1977, 1978, 1990, 1996, 1999, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2014, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021
47	36	1901, 1904, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1915, 1916, 1918, 1920, 1921, 1923, 1924, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1935, [](1936-all-ireland-senior-football-championship-final), 1937, 1939, 1948, 1949, [](1950-all-ireland-senior-football-championship-final), [](1951-all-ireland-senior-football-championship-final), 1955, 1967, 1969, 1981, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2006, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2020, 2021	1903, 1905, 1913, 1917, 1925, 1926, 1928, 1933, 1934, 1938, 1940, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1952, 1953, 1964, 1966, 1968, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1987, 1991, 1994, 1995, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2024, 2025
24	25	1892, 1903, 1905, 1912, 1914, [](1943-all-ireland-senior-football-championship-final), [](1944-all-ireland-senior-football-championship-final), 1946, 1947, 1952, 1953, 1961, 1962, 1972, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1990, 1991, 2001, 2010, 2017, 2019	1906, 1911, 1915, 1916, 1919, 1925, 1931, 1941, 1942, 1950, 1955, 1970, 1974, 1976, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1998, 2011, 2016, 2018, 2022
3	16	1928, 1975, 2007	1920, 1922, 1930, 1932, 1947, 1954, 1956, 1965, 1971, 1981, 1997, 2002, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2023
2	9	1927, 1994	1914, 1949, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1963, 1967, 2000
0	1		2013

Performance by province

Province	Titles	Runner-up	Total	[[File:Flag_of_Connacht.svg	border	20x20px]] Connacht	[[File:Flag_of_Britain.svg	border	20x20px]] Britain
126	119	245
0	1	1

Team results

Legend

– Winner
– Runner-up
– Semi-finalist / Quarter-finalist / Preliminary round exit For each year, the number of competing teams is shown (in brackets).

Team	2013 (7)	2014 (7)	2015 (7)	2016 (7)	2017 (7)	2018 (7)	2019 (7)	2020 (4)	2021 (5)	2022 (7)	2023 (7)	2024 (7)	2025 (7)	Years	13
[[File:Colours_of_Galway.svg	border	20x20px]]	QF	2nd	SF	1st	2nd	1st	2nd	2nd	2nd	1st	1st	1st	1st
[[File:Colours_of_Leitrim.svg	border	20x20px]]	SF	QF	QF	QF	SF	SF	QF	QF	SF	SF	QF	QF	SF
[[File:Colours_of_London.svg	border	20x20px]]	2nd	QF	QF	QF	QF	QF	QF			QF	QF	QF	QF
[[File:Colours_of_Mayo.svg	border	20x20px]]	1st	1st	1st	SF	SF	QF	SF	1st	1st	QF	QF	2nd	2nd
[[File:Colors_of_New_York.svg	border	20x20px]]	QF	QF	PR	PR	PR	QF	QF			QF	SF	QF	QF
[[File:Colours_of_Roscommon.svg	border	20x20px]]	SF	SF	SF	2nd	1st	2nd	1st	SF	SF	2nd	SF	SF	SF
[[File:Colours_of_Sligo.svg	border	20x20px]]	QF	SF	2nd	SF	QF	SF	SF		QF	SF	2nd	SF	QF

Winning teams

Main article: List of Connacht Senior Football Championship winners

Most recent championship meetings

Lei	Lon	May	New	Ros	Sli
2022	2024	2025	2025	2025	2024
	2022	2025	2023	2019	2024
		2016+		2025	2023
			2024	2024	2025
				2016+	2023
					2022

= Rescheduled for 2026, after being absent in 2021 due to COVID-19 are Mayo v London and Roscommon v New York, for their first fixtures since 2016 (in rotation). London and New York withdrew for 2 years during the outbreak and Sligo for 1 year.

In 2027, Sligo v New York, Leitrim v London are lined up. In 2028, Sligo v London, Leitrim v New York if London and New York don't win before that in 2029 Galway v London and Mayo v New York like in 2030 Roscommon vs London and Galway vs New York like in 2025.

Consecutive titles

Quintuple

[[File:Colours_of_Mayo.svg|border|20x20px]] (1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910)
[[File:Colours_of_Galway.svg|border|20x20px]] (1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960)
[[File:Colours_of_Mayo.svg|border|20x20px]] (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)

Quadruple

[[File:Colours_of_Mayo.svg|border|20x20px]] (1929, 1930, 1931, 1932)
[[File:Colours_of_Mayo.svg|border|20x20px]] (1948, 1949, 1950, 1951)
[[File:Colours_of_Galway.svg|border|20x20px]] (1963, 1964, 1965, 1966)
[[File:Colours_of_Roscommon.svg|border|20x20px]] (1977, 1978, 1979, 1980)
[[File:Colours_of_Galway.svg|border|20x20px]] (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025)

Treble

[[File:Colours_of_Mayo.svg|border|20x20px]] (1935, 1936, 1937)
[[File:Colours_of_Galway.svg|border|20x20px]] (1940, 1941, 1942)
[[File:Colours_of_Galway.svg|border|20x20px]] (1982, 1983, 1984)

Double

[[File:Colours_of_Mayo.svg|border|20x20px]] (1915, 1916)
[[File:Colours_of_Mayo.svg|border|20x20px]] (1920, 1921)
[[File:Colours_of_Mayo.svg|border|20x20px]] (1923, 1924)
[[File:Colours_of_Galway.svg|border|20x20px]] (1925, 1926)
[[File:Colours_of_Galway.svg|border|20x20px]] (1933, 1934)
[[File:Colours_of_Roscommon.svg|border|20x20px]] (1943, 1944)
[[File:Colours_of_Roscommon.svg|border|20x20px]] (1946, 1947)
[[File:Colours_of_Roscommon.svg|border|20x20px]] (1952, 1953)
[[File:Colours_of_Roscommon.svg|border|20x20px]] (1961, 1962)
[[File:Colours_of_Galway.svg|border|20x20px]] (1970, 1971)
[[File:Colours_of_Galway.svg|border|20x20px]] (1973, 1974)
[[File:Colours_of_Galway.svg|border|20x20px]] (1986, 1987)
[[File:Colours_of_Mayo.svg|border|20x20px]] (1988, 1989)
[[File:Colours_of_Roscommon.svg|border|20x20px]] (1990, 1991)
[[File:Colours_of_Mayo.svg|border|20x20px]] (1992, 1993)
[[File:Colours_of_Mayo.svg|border|20x20px]] (1996, 1997)
[[File:Colours_of_Galway.svg|border|20x20px]] (2002, 2003)
[[File:Colours_of_Mayo.svg|border|20x20px]] (2020, 2021)

Single

[[File:Colours_of_Galway.svg|border|20x20px]] (1900, 1902, 1911, 1913, 1917, 1919, 1922, 1938, 1945, 1954, 1968, 1976, 1995, 1998, 2000, 2005, 2008, 2016, 2018)
[[File:Colours_of_Mayo.svg|border|20x20px]] (1901, 1904, 1918, 1939, 1955, 1967, 1969, 1981, 1985, 1999, 2004, 2006, 2009)
[[File:Colours_of_Roscommon.svg|border|20x20px]] (1892, 1903, 1905, 1912, 1914, 1972, 2001, 2010, 2017, 2019)
[[File:Colours_of_Sligo.svg|border|20x20px]] (1928, 1975, 2007)
[[File:Colours_of_Leitrim.svg|border|20x20px]] (1927, 1994)

Titles by decade

The most successful team of each decade, judged by number of Connacht SFC titles, is as follows:

1900s: 6 for [[File:Colours_of_Mayo.svg|border|20x20px]] (1901, 1904, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909)
1910s: 4 each for [[File:Colours_of_Mayo.svg|border|20x20px]] (1910, 1915, 1916, 1918) and [[File:Colours_of_Galway.svg|border|20x20px]] (1911, 1913, 1917, 1919)
1920s: 5 for [[File:Colours_of_Mayo.svg|border|20x20px]] (1920, 1921, 1923, 1924, 1929)
1930s: 7 for [[File:Colours_of_Mayo.svg|border|20x20px]] (1930, 1931, 1932, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1939)
1940s: 4 each for [[File:Colours_of_Mayo.svg|border|20x20px]] (1940, 1941, 1942, 1945) and [[File:Colours_of_Roscommon.svg|border|20x20px]] (1943, 1944, 1946, 1947)
1950s: 5 for [[File:Colours_of_Galway.svg|border|20x20px]] (1954, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959)
1960s: 6 for [[File:Colours_of_Galway.svg|border|20x20px]] (1960, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968)
1970s: 5 for [[File:Colours_of_Galway.svg|border|20x20px]] (1970, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1976)
1980s: 5 for [[File:Colours_of_Galway.svg|border|20x20px]] (1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987)
1990s: 5 for [[File:Colours_of_Mayo.svg|border|20x20px]] (1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 1999)
2000s: 5 for [[File:Colours_of_Galway.svg|border|20x20px]] (2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2008)
2010s: 5 for [[File:Colours_of_Mayo.svg|border|20x20px]] (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)
2020s: 4 for [[File:Colours_of_Galway.svg|border|20x20px]] (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025)

Team debuts

Year	Debutants	Total
1900	[[File:Colours_of_Galway.svg	border	20x20px]]	1
1901	[[File:Colours_of_Mayo.svg	border	20x20px]] , [[File:Colours_of_Roscommon.svg	border	20x20px]]	2
1902–04	None	0
1905	[[File:Colours_of_Sligo.svg	border	20x20px]]	1
1906	[[File:Colours_of_Leitrim.svg	border	20x20px]]	1
1907–74	None	0
1975	[[File:Colours_of_London.svg	border	20x20px]]	1
1976–98	None	0
1999	[[File:Colors_of_New_York.svg	border	20x20px]]	1
2000–	None	0
Total		7

Other records

Final success rate

No county teamss have appeared in the final, being victorious on all occasions.

On the opposite end of the scale, one team has appeared in the final, losing on each occasion:

[[File:Colours_of_London.svg|border|20x20px]] (2013)

Gaps

Longest gaps between successive Connacht SFC titles:
- 67 years: [[File:Colours_of_Leitrim.svg|border|20x20px]] (1927–1994)
- 47 years: [[File:Colours_of_Sligo.svg|border|20x20px]] (1928–1975)
- 32 years: [[File:Colours_of_Sligo.svg|border|20x20px]] (1975–2007)
- 29 years: [[File:Colours_of_Roscommon.svg|border|20x20px]] (1914–1943)
- 12 years: [[File:Colours_of_Mayo.svg|border|20x20px]] (1955–1967)
- 12 years: [[File:Colours_of_Mayo.svg|border|20x20px]] (1969–1981)
- 11 years: [[File:Colours_of_Roscommon.svg|border|20x20px]] (1892–1903)
- 10 years: [[File:Colours_of_Roscommon.svg|border|20x20px]] (1962–1972)
- 10 years: [[File:Colours_of_Roscommon.svg|border|20x20px]] (1980–1990)
- 10 years: [[File:Colours_of_Roscommon.svg|border|20x20px]] (1991–2001)
Longest gaps between successive Connacht SFC finals:
- 27 years: [[File:Colours_of_Leitrim.svg|border|20x20px]] (1967–1994)
- 22 years: [[File:Colours_of_Leitrim.svg|border|20x20px]] (1927–1949)
- 16 years: [[File:Colours_of_Sligo.svg|border|20x20px]] (1981–1997)
- 15 years: [[File:Colours_of_Sligo.svg|border|20x20px]] (1932–1947)
- 13 years: [[File:Colours_of_Leitrim.svg|border|20x20px]] Leitrim (1914–1927)
- 11 years: [[File:Colours_of_Roscommon.svg|border|20x20px]] (1892–1903)
- 10 years: [[File:Colours_of_Roscommon.svg|border|20x20px]] (1931–1941)

Active gaps

Longest active gaps since a Connacht SFC title:
- 31 years: [[File:Colours_of_Leitrim.svg|border|20x20px]] (1994–)
- 18 years: [[File:Colours_of_Sligo.svg|border|20x20px]] (2007–)
- 6 years: [[File:Colours_of_Roscommon.svg|border|20x20px]] (2019–)
- 4 years: [[File:Colours_of_Mayo.svg|border|20x20px]] (2021–)
Longest active gap since a Connacht SFC final appearance:
- 25 years: [[File:Colours_of_Leitrim.svg|border|20x20px]] (2000–)
- 12 years: [[File:Colours_of_London.svg|border|20x20px]] (2013–)
- 3 years: [[File:Colours_of_Roscommon.svg|border|20x20px]] (2022–)
- 2 years: [[File:Colours_of_Sligo.svg|border|20x20px]] (2023–)

Player records

Each team's most recent winning captain

Galway: Seán Kelly (2023)
Leitrim: Declan Darcy (1994)
Mayo: Aidan O'Shea (2021)
Roscommon: Enda Smith (2019)
Sligo: Noel McGuire (2007)

Managers

Managers in the Connacht SFC are involved in the day-to-day running of the team, including the training, team selection, and sourcing of players from the club championships. Their influence varies from county-to-county and is related to the individual county boards. From 2018, all inter-county head coaches must be Award 2 qualified. The manager is assisted by a team of two or three selectors and an extensive backroom team consisting of various coaches. Prior to the development of the concept of a manager in the 1970s, teams were usually managed by a team of selectors with one member acting as chairman.

Winning managers (1983–2024)

#	Manager(s)	Winning team(s)	Titles(s)	Winning years
1	[[File:Colours of Mayo.svg	20px	border]] John O'Mahony
8	1988, 1989, 2009
1994
1998, 2000, 2002, 2003
2	[[File:Colours of Mayo.svg	20px	border]] James Horan		6	2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2020, 2021
3	[[File:Colours of Mayo.svg	20px	border]] John Maughan		4	1996, 1997, 1999, 2004
4	[[File:Colours of Galway.svg	20px	border]] Pádraic Joyce		3	2022, 2023, 2024
5	[[File:Colours of Galway.svg	20px	border]] Mattie McDonagh		2	1982, 1983
[[File:Colours of Roscommon.svg	20px	border]] Martin McDermott		2	1990, 1991
[[File:Colours of Kerry.svg	20px	border]] Jack O'Shea		2	1992, 1993
[[File:Colours of Galway.svg	20px	border]] Kevin Walsh		2	2016, 2018
9	[[File:Colours of Donegal.svg	20px	border]] Brian McEniff		1	1975
[[File:Colours of Galway.svg	20px	border]] Tony Regan		1	1984
[[File:Colours of Galway.svg	20px	border]] Liam O'Neill		1	1985
[[File:Colours of Galway.svg	20px	border]] Cyril Dunne		1	1986
[[File:Colours of Galway.svg	20px	border]] Willie Joyce		1	1987
[[File:Colours of Galway.svg	20px	border]] Bosco McDermott		1	1995
[[File:Colours of Galway.svg	20px	border]] John Tobin		1	2001
[[File:Colours of Mayo.svg	20px	border]] Peter Ford		1	2005
[[File:Colours of Derry.svg	20px	border]] Mickey Moran		1	2006
[[File:Colours of Sligo.svg	20px	border]] Tommy Breheny		1	2007
[[File:Colours of Galway.svg	20px	border]] Liam Sammon		1	2008
[[File:Colours of Roscommon.svg	20px	border]] Fergal O'Donnell		1	2010
[[File:Colours of Mayo.svg	20px	border]] Noel Connelly		1	2015
[[File:Colours of Mayo.svg	20px	border]] Pat Holmes
[[File:Colours of Mayo.svg	20px	border]] Kevin McStay		1	2017
[[File:Colours of Galway.svg	20px	border]] Anthony Cunningham		1	2019

Venues

Stadia and locations

County team	Location	Province	Stadium	Capacity
[[File:Colours_of_Galway.svg	border	20x20px]]	Galway	Connacht	Pearse Stadium	26,197
[[File:Colours_of_Leitrim.svg	border	20x20px]]	Carrick-on-Shannon	Connacht	Páirc Seán Mac Diarmada	9,331
[[File:Colours_of_London.svg	border	20x20px]]	South Ruislip	Britain	McGovern Park	3,000
[[File:Colours_of_Mayo.svg	border	20x20px]]	Castlebar	Connacht	MacHale Park	25,369
[[File:Colors_of_New_York.svg	border	20x20px]]	Bronx	North America	Gaelic Park	2,000
[[File:Colours_of_Roscommon.svg	border	20x20px]]	Roscommon	Connacht	Dr Hyde Park	25,000
[[File:Colours_of_Sligo.svg	border	20x20px]]	Sligo	Connacht	Markievicz Park	18,558

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