The Connacht Senior Football Championship is an annual Gaelic football competition for the senior county teams of Connacht GAA. All of the counties of Connacht participate in the championship, as well as counties London and New York. The winning team receives the Nestor Cup.^[1]

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Connacht GAA Football Senior Championship
Current season or competition: 2024 Connacht Senior Football Championship
Irish	Craobh Sinsir Peile Connachta
Code	Gaelic football
Founded	1888; 136 years ago (1888)
Region	Connacht (GAA)
No. of teams	7
Most titles	Galway/Mayo (48 titles)
Sponsors	SuperValu, Eir, AIB
TV partner(s)	RTÉ Sky Sports
Motto	Be there. All the way.
Official website	Official website

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The Connacht Senior Football Championship is run on a knock-out basis in which they 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 winners and runners-up progresses directly to the All-Ireland Group Stage. (before 2020, all losing teams progress to the All-Ireland Qualifiers and before 2001 the All-Ireland was a straight knock-out format meaning all losing teams were eliminated after a single defeat).

Galway are the two time title-holders, defeating Sligo by 2-20 to 0-12 in the 2023 final.

Galway are Connacht's most successful county with 9 All Ireland titles. Roscommon have won the competition 24 times, most recently in 2019. Sligo have won the Nestor cup three times, most recently in 2007, while Leitrim have won the competition twice, most recently in 1994. The competing counties play for the JJ Nestor Cup, which is presented to the winning captain on Connacht Final Day.

London have competed in the Connacht Senior Football Championship 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.^[2][3][4] New York recorded their first and only victory in the championship over Leitrim in 2023.^[5]

Managers in the Connacht Championship 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 (1983–2023)

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

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• Golden background – Connacht champions also won the All-Ireland Championship.

More information County, Title(s) ...

County	Title(s)	Runners-Up	Years won	Years runners-up
Galway	48	34	1900, 1902, 1911, 1913, 1917, 1919, 1922, 1925, 1926, 1933, 1934, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1945, 1954, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1995, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2016, 2018, 2022, 2023	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
Mayo	48	34	1901, 1904, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1915, 1916, 1918, 1920, 1921, 1923, 1924, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1939, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 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, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1987, 1991, 1994, 1995, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2008
Roscommon	24	25	1892, 1903, 1905, 1912, 1914, 1943, 1944, 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
Sligo	3	16	1928, 1975, 2007	1920, 1922, 1930, 1932, 1947, 1954, 1956, 1965, 1971, 1981, 1997, 2002, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2023
Leitrim	2	9	1927, 1994	1914, 1949, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1963, 1967, 2000
London	0	1	-	2013

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Notes:

• 1888-1891 No Connacht representative in All-Ireland series
• 1892 Roscommon represented the province
• 1893-1899 No Connacht representative in All-Ireland series
• 1900 Galway unopposed
• 1902 Galway unopposed
• 1946 Objection and counter-objection. Replay ordered
• 1939 Game unfinished - awarded to Mayo
• 1922 Objection - refixed

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