2000 Sligo Senior Football Championship

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Irish English Template:Template other This is a round-up of the 2000 Sligo Senior Football Championship. This Championship, after a number of years of being dominated by Eastern Harps and Tourlestrane, provided a novel final pairing, as Bunninadden (last champions in 1891) and Coolera/Strandhiill (last champions in 1907) contested the final, Coolera having dispatched both of the previous champions en route. The destination of the title went down to the last minute, as a dramatic injury-time goal gave Bunninadden their first title for 109 years, leaving Coolera devastated, after leading for much of the game.

James Kearins was the winning manager and was later appointed manager of the Sligo county team in 2003.

Group stages

The Championship was contested by 12 teams, divided into four groups. The top two sides in each group advanced to the quarter-finals.

Group A

Date	Venue	Team A	Score	Team B	Score
22 July	Coola	Eastern Harps	1-13	Tubbercurry	1-10
29 July	Kent Park	Drumcliffe/Rosses Point	0-13	Tubbercurry	0-7
5 August	Markievicz Park	Eastern Harps	2-15	Drumcliffe/Rosses Point	1-8

Team	Pld	W	D	L	For	Against	Pts
Eastern Harps	2	2	0	0	3-28	2-18	4
Drumcliffe/Rosses Point	2	1	0	1	1-21	2-22	2
Tubbercurry	2	0	0	2	1-17	1-26	0

Group B

Date	Venue	Team A	Score	Team B	Score
23 July	Tubbercurry	Geevagh	1-7	Cloonacool	0-3
29 July	Easkey	St. Mary's	4-16	Cloonacool	0-4
5 August	Tubbercurry	St. Mary's	0-15	Geevagh	1-6

Team	Pld	W	D	L	For	Against	Pts
St. Mary's	2	2	0	0	4-31	1-10	4
Geevagh	2	1	0	1	2-13	0-18	2
Cloonacool	2	0	0	2	0-7	5-23	0

Group C

Date	Venue	Team A	Score	Team B	Score
23 July	Tubbercurry	Bunninadden	3-8	Castleconnor	1-4
30 July	Markievicz Park	Coolera/Strandhill	0-9	Bunninadden	0-6
5 August	Easkey	Coolera/Strandhill	0-18	Castleconnor	1-8

Team	Pld	W	D	L	For	Against	Pts
Coolera/Strandhill	2	2	0	0	0-27	1-14	4
Bunninadden	2	1	0	1	3-14	1-13	2
Castleconnor	2	0	0	2	2-12	3-26	0

Group D

Date	Venue	Team A	Score	Team B	Score
23 July	Enniscrone	Easkey	2-6	Tourlestrane	0-9
30 July	Tubbercurry	Tourlestrane	0-16	Curry	2-8
5 August	Tubbercurry	Easkey	2-7	Curry	0-11

Team	Pld	W	D	L	For	Against	Pts
Easkey	2	2	0	0	4-13	0-20	4
Tourlestrane	2	1	0	1	0-25	4-14	2
Curry	2	0	0	2	2-19	2-23	0

Quarterfinals

Game	Date	Venue	Team A	Score	Team B	Score
Sligo SFC Quarter Final	18 August	Coola	Eastern Harps	4-18	Geevagh	1-3
Sligo SFC Quarter Final	19 August	Tubbercurry	Bunninadden	1-11	Easkey	0-8
Sligo SFC Quarter Final	20 August	Easkey	Coolera/Strandhill	3-11	Tourlestrane	0-9
Sligo SFC Quarter Final	20 August	Markievicz Park	St. Mary's	0-13	Drumcliffe/Rosses Point	0-13
Sligo SFC Quarter Final Replay	26 August	Markievicz Park	St. Mary's	2-13	Drumcliffe/Rosses Point	0-6

Semifinals

Game	Date	Venue	Team A	Score	Team B	Score
Sligo SFC Semi-Final	3 September	Markievicz Park	Bunninadden	1-11	St. Mary's	1-10
Sligo SFC Semi-Final	3 September	Markievicz Park	Coolera/Strandhill	1-8	Eastern Harps	1-8
Sligo SFC Semi-Final Replay	10 September	Markievicz Park	Coolera/Strandhill	0-6	Eastern Harps	0-4

Sligo Senior Football Championship Final

Bunninadden	2-7 - 0-11 (final score after 60 minutes)	Coolera/Strandhill
Manager:James Kearins Team: M. Finn S. Roddy F. O'Dowd S. Gormley J. O'Flaherty K. Brett W. Gormley P. Doohan (1-2) M. Gormley D. Gormley (1-0) L. Óg Gormley P. Kerins A. Killoran (0-3) F. O'Flaherty (Capt)(0-1) E. Gilhooley Substitutes: D. Killoran (0-1) J. Scanlon K. Kerins B. Gilhooley	Half-time: 0-6 - 0-7 Competition: Sligo Senior Football Championship (Final) Date: Sunday, 1 October 2000 Venue: Markievicz Park, Sligo Referee: Thomas Walsh (St. Michael's)	Manager:Declan McCabe Team: A. Carty G. Foley N. Carew S. O'Neill (Capt) T. Watters J. Joyce B. Doyle K. Quinn (0-1) S. Carty T. McMahon K. O'Neill (0-3) L. Healy (0-1) P. Hegarty (0-1) J. McPartland (0-4) K. Gilligan (0-1) Substitutes:

References

• Sligo Champion (July–October 2000)
• Sligo Weekender (July–October 2000)