The Mayo Women's Football League is a

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league featuring teams from

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. It is the sister league of the

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. It has previously been known as the Mayo Ladies League. The league is a summer league, beginning in March and ending in September. In 2015 the league was sponsored by Artec Facilities Management, a company based in

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. Teams from the league also compete for the Mayo Cup, the Mary Walsh Cup and the Mayo Shield. They also enter the Connaught Cup and the

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. The league's representative team won the 2006

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and then represented the

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in the 2007–08 UEFA Women's Cup.

2015 teams

Castlebar Celtic had planned to enter a team for the 2015 season but withdrew due to a lack of players.

List of recent winners

Representative team

FAI Women's Cup

In 2004 the Mayo Ladies League entered a representative team in the

for the first time. In 2005 they reached the semi-finals but lost 2–1 to

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. In 2006 Mayo went one stage further and reached the final after defeating the Limerick Ladies League, Wilton United and Lifford Ladies. In the final at

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they played a UCD team featuring Nicola Sinnott and Sylvia Gee. Mayo won the cup after defeating UCD 1–0, with Aoife Herbert scoring the winning goal after just thirteen minutes. In 2007 Mayo were quarter finalists, losing 2–1 to Lifford Ladies.

2007–08 UEFA Women's Cup

As a result of winning the 2006

, the Mayo Ladies League qualified to represent the Republic of Ireland in the 2007–08 UEFA Women's Cup. They were drawn in Group A3 along with

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, Hibernian Ladies and Gol Częstochowa. The competition format saw Mayo travel to

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in August 2007 to play in a mini-tournament to decide who would progress to the next round. In addition to playing association football, several members of the Mayo squad including Yvonne Byrne, Aoife Herbert,

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and Michelle Ruane also played

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and were prominent members of

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during the 2007

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. The UEFA Women's Cup tournament clashed with a quarter-final game against

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. Byrne, Herbert and Staunton all returned to Ireland during the tournament to play for the Mayo Gaelic football team and as a result were not available for all three games. Byrne, Herbert and Staunton all went on to represent the Mayo GAA team in the 2007 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship Final.

Squad

Matches and final table

References

{{Football in the Republic of Ireland Women's association football leagues in the Republic of Ireland Association football in County Mayo Sports leagues established in 2000 2000 establishments in Ireland Association football leagues in Connacht Summer association football leagues