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The Mayo County Board of the
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(GAA) ( ga, Cumann Luthchleas Gael Coiste Maigh Eo) or Mayo GAA is one of the 32
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s of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for
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in
County Mayo County Mayo (; ga, Contae Mhaigh Eo, meaning "Plain of the yew trees") is a county in Ireland. In the West of Ireland, in the province of Connacht, it is named after the village of Mayo, now generally known as Mayo Abbey. Mayo County Counci ...
and the Mayo county teams. The county football team was the second from the
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of
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to win an All-Ireland Senior Football Championship (SFC), following
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, but the first to appear in the final. Mayo play in the Connacht Senior Football Championship. The team has won three All-Ireland Senior Football Championships; 1936, 1950, 1951 and has acquired a long-term record for reaching eleven All-Ireland SFC finals only to fall at the ultimate hurdle in 1989, 1996, 1997, 2004, 2006, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2020 and 2021. Mayo has won the greatest number of National Football League titles consecutively (six, from 1934 to 1939). Mayo was the longest serving team in Division 1 of the
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when relegated in 2020, having played there since 1997. In 2021, Mayo gained promotion, at the first attempt, back to Division 1 of the National League.


Governance

Hurling in Mayo is administered by the Mayo GAA Hurling Committee, which is a sub-committee of the Mayo GAA County Board.


Football


Clubs

Clubs contest the Mayo Senior Football Championship.
Crossmolina Deel Rovers Crossmolina Deel Rovers is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in Crossmolina, County Mayo, Ireland. The club fields Gaelic football teams in competitions organized by the Mayo GAA county board. History Crossmolina Dr Crokes GAA was affili ...
won the 2000–01 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship. Ballina Stephenites won the 2004–05 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship.


County team

The county team won its first All-Ireland Senior Football Championship (SFC) in 1936, defeating
Laois County Laois ( ; gle, Contae Laoise) is a county in Ireland. It is part of the Eastern and Midland Region and in the province of Leinster. It was known as Queen's County from 1556 to 1922. The modern county takes its name from Loígis, a medi ...
in
the final Final, Finals or The Final may refer to: *Final (competition), the last or championship round of a sporting competition, match, game, or other contest which decides a winner for an event ** Another term for playoffs, describing a sequence of cont ...
. It won a second All-Ireland SFC in 1950, defeating Louth in
the final Final, Finals or The Final may refer to: *Final (competition), the last or championship round of a sporting competition, match, game, or other contest which decides a winner for an event ** Another term for playoffs, describing a sequence of cont ...
. The team retained the All-Ireland SFC in 1951, defeating Meath in
the final Final, Finals or The Final may refer to: *Final (competition), the last or championship round of a sporting competition, match, game, or other contest which decides a winner for an event ** Another term for playoffs, describing a sequence of cont ...
. Mayo did not appear in another All-Ireland SFC final until
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, losing to
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. Since 1989, the team has appeared in (and lost) All-Ireland SFC finals in
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, 2016 (drawn game and replay), 2017, 2020 and 2021. Three of those were one-point losses: 2013, 2016 (replay) and 2017. Mayo scored 21 points to Dublin's nine in the 2016 drawn game but two of the scores were own goals by Mayo players. In 2020, Mayo conceded the fastest goal in the history of All-Ireland SFC finals, knocking more than twenty seconds off a record which had stood for 58 years. In the 2021 loss, Ryan O'Donoghue hit a penalty against the goalpost and numerous other goal chances were squandered. A curse is said to be upon the Mayo football team.


Hurling


Clubs

Although not a traditional hurling county, hurling is strong in certain parts of the county especially in the eastern region around Ballyhaunis and Tooreen. Mayo has four senior hurling clubs, each of which competes against the others annually for the TJ Tyrell Mayo Senior Hurling Championship. These four clubs are Tooreen, Ballyhaunis,
Castlebar Mitchels Castlebar Mitchels is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in the Castlebar area in County Mayo, Ireland. The club was founded in 1885 and is named after the nationalist John Mitchel (1815–1875). Though football is the club's dominant spor ...
and Westport. Tooreen has the most titles, with 26. Ballyhaunis is the reigning senior champion club; it has six senior titles. Hurling at underage level is also expanding in Mayo, with ten clubs competing in underage leagues and championships in the county. As well as the four adult sides named above, four other underage clubs have formed in recent years. These clubs are Ballyvary, Moytura, Caiseal Gaels and Claremorris.


County team

The four senior clubs (see above) provide players for the Mayo senior hurling panel, which participates in the National Hurling League and the All-Ireland Christy Ring (Tier 2) Cup. The ten underage clubs (see above) provide players for the Mayo underage hurling development panels. Mayo has development panels at under-14, under-15, under-16 and minor age-groups, and competes in the All-Ireland 'B' competitions each year. The Mayo under-21 hurling team competes in the Connacht U-21B Hurling Championship each year alongside Leitrim,
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and Sligo. Mayo won the 2016 Nicky Rackard Cup, defeating
Armagh Armagh ( ; ga, Ard Mhacha, , "Macha's height") is the county town of County Armagh and a city in Northern Ireland, as well as a civil parish. It is the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland – the seat of the Archbishops of Armagh, the ...
by a scoreline of 2–16 to 1–15 at
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Ladies' football


Camogie

Mayo contested the All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship final of 1959, captained by Josie Ruane from Menulla. Na Brídeoga won the Coiste Chontae an Chláir Shield at Féile na nGael in 2009, Parke (1983) and Ardagh (1988) had previously won divisional honours. The county hosted the 2007 Máire Ní Chinnéide Cup. Under Camogie's National Development Plan 2010–2015, "Our Game, Our Passion",
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, Kerry, Mayo and
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Club roll of honour (since 1951)


Further reading

* Clune, M. A. (1954) ''Mayo's Football Triumphs''. Dublin: Pearse Press * Reilly, Terry & Neill, Ivan (1985) ''The Green Above the Red: a compilation of Mayo's All-Ireland triumphs at all levels''. Ballina: Western People


References

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External links


Mayo GAA website

Mayo Club '51

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National and provincial titles won by Mayo teams

''Green and Red'', Mayo GAA news, views and over a century of results

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