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| Sport: | Football | ||
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| Irish: | Sligeach | ||
| Nickname(s): | The Yeats men | ||
| County board: | Sligo GAA | ||
| Manager: | Tony McEntee | ||
| Captain: | Niall Murphy[1] | ||
| Home venue(s): | Markievicz Park, Sligo | ||
| Recent competitive record | |||
| Current All-Ireland status: | Connacht (SF) in 2022 | ||
| Last championship title: | None | ||
| Current NFL Division: | 3 (1st in 2023) | ||
| Last league title: | None | ||
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The Sligo county football team (/ˈslaɪɡoʊ/ SLY-goh) represents Sligo in men's Gaelic football and is governed by Sligo GAA, the county board of the Gaelic Athletic Association. The team competes in the three major annual inter-county competitions; the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, the Connacht Senior Football Championship and the National Football League.
Sligo's home ground is Markievicz Park, Sligo. The team's manager is Tony McEntee.
The team last won the Connacht Senior Championship in 2007, but has never won the All-Ireland Senior Championship or the National League.
According to Martin Breheny, Sligo routinely has a ranking within the bottom sixteen of county football teams.[2]
- ^ "Huge year for Coolera/Strandhill's Niall Murphy as long awaited Sligo Senior title finally arrives". 25 October 2023.
- ^ "Connolly and Marren reminders that limit of what players can achieve influenced as much by geography as talent". Irish Independent. 7 October 2020.
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