Connacht senior league challenge cup

Connacht Senior League Challenge Cup was a knockout competition for Connacht Senior League clubs that ran between 1981 and 1994. It consisted solely of intermediate clubs and was considered the third most important competition in Connacht soccer after the senior league itself and the Connacht Senior Cup(that also featured junior clubs). The finals took place around the end of the season usually after the league finished and Mervue United were the most successful winning the first four cups while Sligo Rovers were the only club from outside the Galway city area to win it. During the group and play-off league season of 1994-95 the competition didn't take place and after the creation of 2 divisions it was replaced by a Premiership cup. The two divisions were scrapped after one season but the name 'premiership' was retained and so was the Premiership cup with the finals occasionally taking place around the halfway stage of the season. In what turned out to be the final league season the name 'premiership' was removed and the Premiership cup scrapped. That season saw the revival of the League cup (a group and knockout competition), but the Millennium cup competition that was played in the second half of the season would have been more related to the original Challenge cup.

Connacht Senior League Challenge Cup finals

Season	Winner	----	Runner-up	Score
1981-82	Mervue United	v	UCG	3-0
1982-83	Mervue United	v	Castlerea Celtic	4-0
1983-84	Mervue United	v	Balinasloe Town	1-0
1984-85	Mervue United	v	Castlerea Celtic	4-2
1985-86	Salthill Devon	v	Mervue United	1-0
1986-87	UCG	v	Galway United	1-0
1987-88	UCG	v	Castlebar Celtic	1-0
1988-89	Mervue United	v	UCG	1-0
1989-90	Salthill Devon	v	UCG	1-0
1990-91	Sligo Rovers	v	Salthill Devon	1-0
1991-92	Salthill Devon	v	Castlebar Celtic	2-0
1992-93	Mervue United	v	Balinasloe Town	2-1
1993-94	Sligo Rovers	v	Galway United	1-0

Connacht Senior League Premiership Cup finals

Season	Winner	----	Runner-up	Score
1995-96	UCG	v	Salthill Devon	4-0
1996-97	UCG	v	Straide & Foxford United	2-1
1997-98	Castlebar Celtic	v	Mervue United	2-1
1998-99	Galway United	v	Castlebar Celtic	2-0

Connacht Senior League Millenium Cup final

Season	Winner	----	Runner-up	Score
1999-00	Saint Peters of Athlone	v	Salthill Devon	3-0

Sources

• The Connacht Sentinel at the Irish Newspaper Archives'
• The City Tribune at the Irish Newspaper Archives'
• The Connacht Tribune at the Irish Newspaper Archives'
• The Sligo Champion January–June 1994 archive collection from the National Library