Sligo Senior Football Championship 2005

Infobox GAA championship


name=Sligo Senior Football Championship 2005
county=Sligo
year=2005
manager=Alan Kelly
captain=Neil Carew/Con O'Meara
winners=Coolera/Strandhill
ordinal=2
super=nd
relegated=n/a
promoted=Coolaney/Mullinabreena

This is a round-up of the 2005 Sligo Senior Football Championship. The year saw Coolera, who had suffered two agonising final defeats earlier in the decade, finally end their long wait for Championship glory, stretching back to 1907. They defeated Curry in the final, who had disposed of holders Tourlestrane after a Semi-Final replay. No team was relegated in 2005, in order to bring the number of competing teams up to 16 in 2006.

Group Stages

The Championship was contested by 15 teams, divided into three groups of four, and one of three. The top two sides in each group advanced to the Quarter-Finals.

Group A

Group D

Quarter Finals

The quarter finals of the Championship saw the exit of Calry/St. Joseph's, Tubbercurry, Easkey and Drumcliffe/Rosses Point. Curry, Coolera/Strandhill, Tourlestrane and Eastern Harps qualified for the semi-finals. The Tourlestrane/Easkey proved a bizarre affair, with Easkey failing to score for over forty minutes. By then Tourlestrane had racked up 2-10 and were preparing for the Semi-Finals.

References

* Sligo Champion (Summer/Autumn 2005)
* Sligo Weekender (Summer/Autumn 2005)
* Western People (September 2005)

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