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 competes 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
Sport:Football
Irish:Uíbh Fhailí
Nickname(s):The Faithful County
County board:Offaly GAA
Manager:John Maughan
Home venue(s):O'Connor Park, Tullamore
Recent competitive record
Current All-Ireland status:Leinster (QF) in 2020
Last championship title:1982
Current NFL Division:3 (6th in 2020)
Last league title:1998
First colours
Second colours

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.

Current squad

Team as per Offaly vs Kildare in the Leinster SFC quarter-final, 8 November 2020

No. Player Position Club
1 Paddy Dunican Goalkeeper Shamrocks
2 Declan Hogan Right Corner Back Rhode
3 Eoin Rigney Full Back Rhode
4 Niall Darby Left Corner Back Rhode
5 Eoin Carroll Right Half Back Cappincur
6 Johnny Moloney Centre Back Tullamore
7 Joseph O'Connor Left Half Back St Rynagh's
8 Aaron Leavy Midfield Tullamore
9 Jordan Hayes Midfield Edenderry
10 Peter Cunningham Right Half Forward Bracknagh
11 Ruairi McNamee Centre Forward Rhode
12 Anton Sullivan Left Half Forward Rhode
13 Bernard Allen Right Corner Forward Tubber
14 Niall McNamee Full Forward Rhode
15 Cian Farrell Left Corner Forward Edenderry
No. Player Position Club
16 Ian Duffy Goalkeeper Walsh Island
17 Conor McNamee Substitute Rhode
18 Colm Doyle Substitute Clara
19 Cathal Mangan Substitute Kilconfert
20 Rory Egan Substitute Edenderry
21 Bill Carroll Substitute Cappincur
22 Jack Quinn Substitute Ballycumber
23 Cathal Donoghue Substitute Kilcormac/Killoughey
24 Carl Stewart Substitute Clara
25 Mark Abbott Substitute Edenderry
26 Jack Bryant Substitute Shamrocks
Cian Johnson Panel Ferbane
Shane Horan Panel Kilmacud Crokes
Shane Nally Panel Ferbane
Cian Donohue Panel St Brigid's

Current management team

Players

Records

Honours

National Football League Division 4 2015

References
  1. Breheny, Martin (17 September 2010). "1982: Kerry stunned as Darby derails the Drive for Five". Irish Independent.
  2. "Cillian O'Connor makes GAA history". The Mayo News. 16 July 2019. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
  3. "O'Connor set to overhaul Cooper at top of the charts". RTÉ. 9 July 2019. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
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