2020 Galway county football team season
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| 2020 season | |
|---|---|
| Manager | Pádraic Joyce |
| Stadium | Pearse Stadium, Salthill |
| NFL D1 | 3rd |
| All-Ireland SFC | Did not compete |
| Connacht SFC | Finalist |
| FBD | Winner |
The following is a summary of Galway county football team's 2020 season. The season was suspended in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The season resumed in mid-October of the same year.
FBD
Fixtures were confirmed in November 2019.[1]
Fixtures
v 
Galway
| 12 January 2020 (2020-01-12) Semi-final | Mayo |
1-17 (20) – (20) 1-17 (2–3 pen) |
Galway |
Castlebar | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14:00 GMT (UTC±0) | (HT: 0-9 – 0-8) | Venue: MacHale Park | |||
| Report | Referee: P. Guckian (Leitrim) Attendance: 7,000 | ||||
| Penalty shootout | |||||
|
Fergal Boland |
 Y Shane Walsh N Paul ConroyY Damien ComerN Adrian VarleyY Tom Flynn |
v Galway
| 18 January 2020 (2020-01-18) Final | Roscommon |
0-11 (11) – (17) 1-14 | Galway |
Roscommon | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14:00 GMT (UTC±0) | (HT: 0-5 – 0-7) | Venue: Dr Hyde Park | |||
Pts: Ciarán Lennon 5 (3f), Donie Smith 2 (1f), Niall Kilroy 1, Richard Hughes 1, Andrew Glennon 1, Cathal Cregg 1 |
Report | Gls: Shane Walsh 1 (pen) Pts: Shane Walsh 8 (6f, 1 mark), Paul Conroy 2, Robert Finnerty 2, Michael Boyle 1, Seán Mulkerrin 1 |
Referee: Jerome Henry (Mayo) Attendance: 3,217
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National Football League Division 2
The league was originally scheduled to end in March 2020, but the public health measures introduced to combat the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the final two league rounds being delayed to October.[2][3][4]
Table
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Kerry (C) |
7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 133 | 112 | +21 | 11 | National Football League champions |
| 2 |  Dublin |
7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 126 | 112 | +14 | 10 | |
| 3 | Galway |
7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 128 | 127 | +1 | 8[a] | |
| 4 |  Tyrone |
7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 109 | 126 | −17 | 8[a] | |
| 5 |  Donegal |
7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 117 | 109 | +8 | 7 | |
| 6 |  Monaghan |
7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 113 | 114 | −1 | 6 | |
| 7 | Mayo (R) |
7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 122 | 123 | −1 | 5 | Relegation to 2021 NFL Division 2 |
| 8 |  Meath (R) |
7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 103 | 128 | −25 | 1 |
Rules for classification: 1) League points 2) Where only two teams are involved, the outcome of the meeting of the two teams in the competition 3) Scoring Difference 4) Highest Total Score For 5) A Play-Off.
(C) League champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:
Fixtures
v Monaghan
| 26 January 2020 (2020-01-26) 1 | Galway |
1-14 (17) – (16) 0-16 | Monaghan |
Salthill | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14:30 GMT (UTC+0) | Venue: Pearse Stadium | ||||
| Report | Referee: Maurice Deegan (Laois)
|
v Galway
| 1 February 2020 (2020-02-01) 2 | Kerry |
1-15 (18) – (17) 2-11 | Galway |
Tralee | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19:00 GMT (UTC+0) | Venue: Austin Stack Park | ||||
| Report | Referee: Anthony Nolan (Wicklow)
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v Galway
| 9 February 2020 (2020-02-09) 3 | Donegal |
2-07 (13) – (14) 2-08 | Galway |
Letterkenny | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15:00 GMT (UTC+0) | Venue: O'Donnell Park | ||||
| Report | Referee: Joe McQuillan (Cavan)
|
v Tyrone
| 23 February 2020 (2020-02-23) 4 | Galway |
2-25 (31) – (12) 0-12 | Tyrone |
Salthill | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14:00 GMT (UTC+0) | Venue: Pearse Stadium | ||||
| Referee: Conor Lane (Cork)
|
v Galway
| 1 March 2020 (2020-03-01) 5 | Meath |
1-12 (15) – (17) 1-14 | Galway |
Navan | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14:30 GMT (UTC+0) | Venue: Páirc Tailteann | ||||
| Referee: Niall Cullen (Fermanagh)
|
v Mayo
| 18 October 2020 (2020-10-18) 6 | Galway |
0-17 (17) – (32) 3-23 | Mayo |
Salthill | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14:00 IST (UTC+1) | Venue: Pearse Stadium | ||||
| [5] | Referee: Maurice Deegan (Laois) TV: TG4
|
v Dublin
| 25 October 2020 (2020-10-25) 7 | Galway |
0-15 (15) – (21) 2-15 | Dublin |
Salthill | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14:00 GMT (UTC+0) | Venue: Pearse Stadium | ||||
| Referee: David Coldrick (Meath) TV: TG4
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Connacht Senior Football Championship
On 17 March, the GAA confirmed that the opening fixture – due to have taken place at Gaelic Park in The Bronx on 3 May – had been postponed due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Gaelic games.[6] The Galway vs Sligo Connacht SFC semi-final was not played as Sligo were affected by COVID-19 cases. As a result, Galway advanced to the provincial final without playing a single match for the first time since 1965. So Galway's first (and, as it turned out, last) match was the Connacht SFC final. The Connacht SFC had only four teams instead of the usual seven. This previously only ever happened during the period when all Connacht SFC finals were between Galway and Mayo (1933–1940), and again in 1965.[7]
Since 2020 been postponed of hosting Sligo they hosted them in the 2023 Connacht final and Connacht semi-final in 2024 and New York in 2025.
Bracket
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||||||
| Galway
| w/o | |||||||||||||
 Sligo
| conc | |||||||||||||
| Galway
| 0-13 | |||||||||||||
| Mayo
| 0-14 | |||||||||||||
| Roscommon
| 0-13 | |||||||||||||
| Mayo
| 2-15 | Mayo
| 1-16 | |||||||||||
 Leitrim
| 0-10 | |||||||||||||
Fixtures
v New York 
| 1 November 2020 (2020-11-01) Quarter-final | Galway |
w/o – conc | New York |
New York | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venue: Gaelic Park | |||||
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v Sligo
| 7 November 2020 (2020-11-07) Semi-final | Galway |
w/o – conc | Sligo |
Galway | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venue: Pearse Stadium | |||||
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v Mayo
| Galway |
0-13 (13) – (14) 0-14 | Mayo |
|---|---|---|
| (HT: 0-5 - 0-8) | ||
Pts: S Walsh 7 (4f), P Conroy 3, D Conneely 1, P Kelly 1, G O'Donnell 1. |
Pts: C O'Connor 4 (2f), T Conroy 3, M Ruane 2, B Walsh 2, P Durcan 1, D O'Connor 1, R O'Donoghue 1. | |
All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Gaelic games, there was no back-door route into the All-Ireland Championship. Therefore, because Galway did not win the Connacht Championship, they did not qualify for the 2020 All-Ireland Championship.
References
- ↑ "FBD League Fixtures for January Published". 26 November 2019.
- ↑ "U21 championship delayed with Clare Cup start deferred". 12 March 2020.
- ↑ GBFM, Sport (12 March 2020). "Sporting Events Postponed Due to Coronavirus Scare".
- ↑ "Coronavirus: A comprehensive guide as Irish and global sport shuts down in effort to contain spread of Covid-19". independent. 12 March 2020.
- ↑ "Allianz FL D1: Mayo cruise to victory against Galway". www.gaa.ie. Retrieved 19 October 2020.
- ↑ Cormican, Eoghan (18 March 2020). "Galway and New York clash first major casualty of pandemic". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
- ↑ "GAA Fixtures".
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