Sligo’s senior team play in the Connacht Senior Football Championship but have only managed to ever win three senior provincial titles, winning in 1928, 1975 and 2007. Sligo have never appeared in an All-Ireland final. The 1922 championship is the closest they have come, defeating Roscommon , Mayo and Galway on the way to win the Connacht title, and beating Tipperary in the subsequent All-Ireland semi-final that followed. However, “a flimsy technicality” led to a replay of the Connacht final against Galway, which Sligo lost.
Since the 2001 introduction to the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship of a qualifier system for teams eliminated from their provincial championship Sligo, despite historically having a poor record, has enjoyed some modest, though noteworthy, success. The new format together with a prolonged period of competing in Division 1 of the National Football League helped bring about an upward turn in the county’s fortunes. In 2002, having narrowly lost the Connacht Senior Football Final to Galway, the defending All-Ireland champions, Sligo went on to defeat Tyrone in Croke Park turning over a seven-point deficit in the process. A similar comeback against the eventual All-Ireland champions Armagh two weeks later led to a replay, but Sligo’s run was halted when they had claims for a penalty in injury time of the second game turned down.
On 8 July 2007, Sligo claimed their first Connacht Title since 1975 with a one-point victory over Galway since then the closest Sligo have got was only final appearances in 2010,2012 and 2015.
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