2019 Connacht Senior Football Championship

2019 Connacht SFC

Tournament details
Year	2019
Trophy	J. J. Nestor Cup
Winners
Champions	Roscommon (23rd win)
Manager	Anthony Cunningham
Captain	Enda Smith
Runners-up
Runners-up	Galway
Manager	Kevin Walsh
Captain	Damien Comer
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The 2019 Connacht Senior Football Championship is the 120th installment of the annual Connacht Senior Football Championship organised by Connacht GAA. It is one of the four provincial competitions of the 2019 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship. As of 2018 the competition winners advanced to the "All-Ireland Super 8s". ^[1]

The draw for the Connacht Championship was made on 12 October 2018. ^[2]

The winners receive the J. J. Nestor Cup, named after J. J. Nestor of Quinaltagh, County Galway. ^[3] For a fourth year in a row, the final was contested between Galway and Roscommon. Roscommon were the winners of the championship, defeating Galway at Pearse Stadium in Salthill by 1-13 to 0-12. ^[4] In 2020 Sligo skipped the championship due to Covid-19 meaning it could be London and New York skipped both 2020 and 2021 seasons are back in 2022.

Teams

The Connacht championship is contested by the five counties in the Irish province of Connacht plus London and New York.

Team	Colours	Sponsor	Manager	Captain	Most recent success
All-Ireland	Provincial
Galway	Maroon and white	Supermac's	Kevin Walsh	Damien Comer	2001	2018
Leitrim	Green and gold	J.P Clarke's New York	Terry Hyland	Micheal McWeeney		1994
London	Green and white	Clayton Hotels	Ciarán Deely	Liam Gavaghan
Mayo	Green and red	Elverys Sports	James Horan	Diarmuid O'Connor	1951	2015
New York	Red, white and blue	Navillus Contracting	Justin O'Halloran	Tom Cunniffe
Roscommon	Blue and yellow	Ballymore Properties	Anthony Cunningham	Enda Smith [5]	1944	2017
Sligo	Black and white	AbbVie Inc.	Paul Taylor	Niall Murphy [6]		2007

Bracket

The Connacht county teams play London and New York on a rotational basis. The match involving New York was a quarter-final in 2019 – it was last a preliminary game in 2017.

	Quarter-finals, May 5 and 12					Semi-finals, May 19 and 25					Final, June 16
	New York		0-04
	Mayo		1-22			Mayo		0-17
	Leitrim		0-12			Roscommon		2-12
	Roscommon		3-17								Roscommon		1-13
											Galway		0-12
						Sligo		0-7
	London		1-9			Galway		3-11
	Galway		0-16

Final

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16 June 2019 16:00 Final	Galway	0-12 - 1-13	Roscommon	Pearse Stadium, Galway Attendance: 17,639 Referee: Barry Cassidy (Derry) Man of the Match: David Murray (Padraig Pearses)
	Shane Walsh 0-4 (0-2f, 1 '45), Michael Daly 0-3 (0-1f), Antaine Ó Laoi 0-2, Gareth Bradshaw, Fiontán Ó Curraoin, Eamonn Brannigan 0-1 each	Report	Diarmuid Murtagh 1-3 (0-2f), Conor Cox 0-5 (0-2f), Niall Daly, Ronan Daly, Shane Killoran, Conor Devaney, Niall Kilroy 0-1 each

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See also

• 2019 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
  • 2019 Leinster Senior Football Championship
  • 2019 Munster Senior Football Championship
  • 2019 Ulster Senior Football Championship

References

1. "Explained: How the football championship's new 'Super 8' quarter-final stage will work in 2018". Irish Independent . 25 February 2017. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
2. "2019 GAA All-Ireland Football Championship draw revealed for Leinster, Munster, Ulster and Connacht". Irish Mirror . 12 October 2018. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
3. "The Tuam Herald - Connemara, Clonfert and Dunmore links to the Dublin hurling team". The Tuam Herald. Archived from the original on 26 April 2018. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
4. Roche, Frank (16 June 2019). "Roscommon sink Galway with storming second half comeback to claim shock Connacht final win". Irish Independent .
5. "Roscommon captain Enda Smith remains optimistic". GAA.ie. 2 July 2019.
6. "Murphy thrilled with captaincy". The Sligo Champion . 19 January 2019.
7. "Cox and Murtagh fire Roscommon to Connacht glory after Galway's second-half collapse". The 42. 16 June 2019. Retrieved 26 January 2019.

External links

• Connacht GAA website