The Donegal Senior Football Championship (abbreviated as Donegal SFC) is an annual football competition organised by Donegal GAA and contested by the highest-level clubs, to determine the best team in County Donegal. Since 2016, it has been known as Michael Murphy Sports and Leisure Donegal SFC after its headline sponsor.
The winning club receives the Dr Maguire Cup. The competition has been won by 17 clubs, 14 of which have won it more than once. Gaoth Dobhair and St Eunan's are the most successful clubs, with 15 titles apiece. The most recent team to win the competition for a first time is Glenswilly: in 2011 (followed by further title wins in 2013 and 2016). The most recent first-time finalist (with no title win) is St Michael's, also in 2011.
The 1996 Donegal SFC has been described as "probably the greatest ever championship in Donegal", with Na Cealla Beaga playing nine games to lift the trophy that year.[3]
The 1997 Donegal SFC descended into controversy when St Eunan's, having beaten Aodh Ruadh in the final by a scoreline of 1–11 to 2–7, had the title stripped from them — due to St Eunan's fielding Leslie McGettigan, an illegal player.[4] The affair made the national press and its effects continued for many months, into the following year.[5]
In 2002, Na Cealla Beaga were thrown out of the Donegal SFC at the semi-final stage — after also being accused of fielding an illegal player, with New York again at the centre of the dispute. The player — Peter McGinley — as well as the club's chairman and secretary were banned for one year. Assistant secretary Bernard Conaghan (reported the Irish Independent) said: "We were careful not to play this player until his papers came through from New York. We sat him out for a league game and our first Championship match, we did everything we thought possible to make sure he was legal and now this has happened, it's a terrible blow".[6] The final of that competition was not played until 2003 due to a disagreement between Ard an Rátha and Naomh Adhamhnáin over Eddie Brennan.[7]
In 2008, Termon — described in national newspaper the Sunday Independent as "one of the smallest if not the smallest" in the county — reached an SFC final for the first time in their history.[8]
The old format, which involved a two-legged first round, was scrapped ahead of the 2013 Donegal SFC in favour of an opening round containing four groups of four teams played out as a league and one team relegated.[14] Two of the four teams in each group advance to the (one-legged) quarter-finals after each have played the others once. The four winning quarter-finalists advance to the (one-legged) semi-finals and the winners advanced to the (one-legged) final.
Teams finishing bottom of their group play two relegation semi-finals. The losing relegation semi-final teams met in the relegation final. The losing team is relegated to the Donegal Intermediate Football Championship (Donegal IFC) to be replaced by the IFC-winning team.
The Donegal SFC winners qualify for the Ulster Senior Club Football Championship. It is the only team from County Donegal to qualify for this competition. The Donegal SFC winners may enter the Ulster Senior Club Football Championship at either the preliminary round or the quarter-final stage. Teams to have qualified for the final of that competition include Na Cealla Beaga, Naomh Conaill, Glenswilly and Gaoth Dobhair.[16][17][18]
All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship
The Donegal SFC winners – by winning the Ulster Senior Club Football Championship – may qualify for the All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship, at which they would enter at the semi-final stage. The last team from County Donegal to do this was Gaoth Dobhair in 2018; they were knocked out by reigning (and eventual) All-Ireland champions Corofin.
Two clubs have completed a Donegal SFC four-in-a-row: these were Gaoth Dobhair (1944, 1945, 1946, 1947) and Naomh Iósaef/St Joseph's (1973, 1974, 1975, 1976).
Three clubs have completed a Donegal SFC three-in-a-row: these were Gaoth Dobhair (1953, 1954, 1955), Seán Mac Cumhaills (1962, 1963, 1964) and St Eunan's (2007, 2008, 2009).
Na Cealla Beaga have won consecutive Donegal SFCs on two occasions (1991, 1992 and 1995, 1996).
A merger between Aodh Ruadh and the less successful Réalt na Mara resulted in the formation of the hugely successful Naomh Iósaef/St Joseph's, who dominated Donegal club football in the 1960s and 1970s winning consecutive Donegal SFCs (1970, 1971) and a 'Four in a Row' between 1973 and 1976. Aodh Ruadh have won consecutive Donegal SFCs on their own on three occasions (1942 & 1943; 1986 & 1987; and 1997 & 1998).
Matches are covered live throughout the county on Highland Radio.
Some matches are also covered by Ocean FM (if they involve teams from its area) alongside its coverage of sport in the neighbouring counties of Sligo and Leitrim.[54]
Live matches from the competition have been shown on Irish-language national television service TG4 as part of its GAA Beo programme. Highlights have been shown on the GAA... programme on Monday evenings on the same channel.
RTÉ began showing the Donegal SFC to English-language viewers on television in 2019.[55]
A player of the year award has been given since 2016. Its title commemorates the RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta broadcaster Séamus Mac Géidigh. A committee of sports journalists decides the winner.[57]
^Craig, Frank (8 October 2020). "Decision won't have been taken lightly — [Eamon] McGee". Donegal News. p. 50. It's easy to forget now but McGee has experienced similar disappointment where a Donegal SFC final was left in limbo and, in the end, not finished in the same calendar year it began. The 2002 SFC in the county was held up due to a spat between the Ardara and St Eunan's clubs over a saga that will forever be recalled as the Eddie Brennan affair. The final, between the Letterkenny men and Gaoth Dobhair, was eventually settled in February of 2003 with McGee and the Magheragallon side coming out on top… 'I've three medals at home [2006 and 2018] but one of them, in my mind at least, that is a wee bit tainted'.
^"Verdict on GAA doesn't consider all the evidence". Sunday Independent. 30 November 2008. Retrieved 30 November 2008. We might profitably have a look at the kind of club Termon is. For a start, it's one of the smallest if not the smallest in Donegal. It's the kind of place you'd expect to produce, at a pinch, a decent junior team.
^Craig, Frank (19 August 2021). "County final saga set to rumble on!". Donegal News. p. 72. The Towney outfit's appeal was lodged with the Donegal GAA's Competitions Controls Committee (CCC) on Tuesday evening.
^Gartland, Niall (17 March 2022). "New Kilcar boss Cunningham has his eyes on the road ahead". Donegal News. p. 67. Naomh Conaill were allowed to keep their title even though they were fined for fielding too many substitutes in their penalty shoot-out win last October, a decision which Kilcar grudgingly accepted even though it clearly rankled with the club.
^ ab"Killybegs 1991, one of the greatest Donegal teams". 14 October 2016. Retrieved 14 October 2016. 'We had gone into the [1991] final as the hot favourites but Red Hugh's had a very good team at the time and they were very unlucky not to win a championship in those years', said Jimmy White, who had taken over from John Joe O'Shea at the beginning of 1991. Kerryman John Joe O'Shea, a teacher at Killybegs Vocational School, had masterminded the 1988 success after a number of years of great success at underage level. 'I [White] was just thinking the other day how things have changed since 1991, when you look at the large numbers in managements and backroom teams nowadays. 'In '91, I was player manager. I had no selectors and Michael Gallagher trained the team'.
^Craig, Frank (30 April 2020). "A Grand Old Team To Play For: When the boys from Killybegs battled to the Ulster decider". Donegal News. pp. 52–3. Also published in Gaelic Life.
^Moran, Sean (9 July 1997). "[P. J.] McGowan calls it a day with Donegal". The Irish Times. Speculation as to [McGowan's] successor has already begun… Selectors from '92, Seamus Bonner and Micahel[sic] Lafferty have also been mentioned, as has Padraig[sic] McShea, a close associate and former playing colleague of McEniff's, who impressed when coaching Killybegs to a county title last year.
^ ab"DONEGAL SFC: Brilliant Boyle is Ardara ace". Irish Independent. 4 October 2004. Retrieved 4 October 2004. It was the perfect result for Ardara manager John McConnell, who was county chairman the last time his club won in 2000. On that occasion, he handed the Dr Maguire Cup to Eamon Doherty.
^"From Sam Maguire to Dr Maguire – St Eunan's and Naomh Conaill do battle in County Final". 4 November 2012. Retrieved 4 November 2012. A huge crowd is expected at MacCumhaill Park at a time when Gaelic games in the county have never had a higher profile. Nothing beats being there, as the GAA slogan goes, but for the neutrals who can't be in Ballybofey, the game is live on TG4 from throw-in at 4pm.
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