Offaly county football team
The Offaly county football team represents Offaly in men's Gaelic football and is governed by Offaly GAA, the County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association. The team compete in the three major annual inter-county competitions; the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, the Leinster Senior Football Championship and the National Football League.
Offaly's home ground is O'Connor Park, Tullamore. The team's manager is John Maughan.
The team last won the Leinster Senior Championship in 1997, the All-Ireland Senior Championship in 1982 and the National League in 1998.
History
Perhaps the most famous moment in football history came in the 1982 All-Ireland Final when Offaly played Kerry. The match was a repeat of the previous year's final; however, not only that but a win for Kerry would give them an unprecedented fifth consecutive All-Ireland SFC title. Kerry were winning by two points with two minutes to go when Séamus Darby came on as a substitute and scored one of the most famous goals of all time in football.[1] Kerry fumbled the counterattack which allowed Offaly to win by one single point with a score of 1–15 to 0–17.
The Offaly vocational schools' team have made it to six All-Ireland finals but lost all six, including the first final when they were beaten by the Cork City team in 1961.
Honours
- All-Ireland Senior Football Championships: 3
- 1971, 1972, 1982
- All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championships: 1
- 1988
- All-Ireland Minor Football Championships: 1
- 1964
- All-Ireland Junior Football Championships: None
- National Football Leagues: 1
- 1998
National Football League Division 4 2015
- Leinster Senior Football Championships: 10
- 1960, 1961, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1997
- Leinster Under-21 Football Championships: 8
- 1968, 1971, 1973, 1977, 1979, 1986, 1988, 1995
- Leinster Minor Football Championships: 6
- 1947, 1960, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1989
- Leinster Junior Football Championships: 4
- 1935, 1972, 1998, 2001
- O'Byrne Cups: 6
Current squad
- Manager: John Maughan
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Squad as per Offaly v Westmeath, 2017 Leinster Senior Football Championship Quarter Final, 11 June 2017
References
- Breheny, Martin (17 September 2010). "1982: Kerry stunned as Darby derails the Drive for Five". Irish Independent.