Donegal–Mayo Gaelic football rivalry

Donegal-Mayo
Locale County Donegal
County Mayo
Teams Donegal
Mayo
First meeting Donegal 0-13 - 0-9 Mayo
1992 All-Ireland semi-final
(16 August 1992)
Latest meeting Mayo 2-13 - 0-11 Donegal
2015 All-Ireland quarter-final
(8 August 2015)
Statistics
Meetings total 4
Top scorer Cillian O'Connor (3-12)
All-time series Donegal 2-2 Mayo
Largest victory Kerry 2-9 - 0-12 Donegal
2014 All-Ireland final
(21 September 2014)

The Donegal-Mayo rivalry is a Gaelic football rivalry between Irish inter-county teams Donegal and Mayo, who first played each other in 1992. The fixture has been an infrequent one in the history of the championship, however, the rivalry intensified during a string of championship encounters between 2012 and 2015.[1] Donegal's home ground is MacCumhail Park and Mayo's home ground is MacHale Park, however, all of their championship meetings have been held at neutral venues, usually Croke Park.

While Mayo have the highest number of Connacht titles and Donegal are eighth on the roll of honour in Ulster, they have also enjoyed success in the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, having won 5 championship titles between them to date.

References

  1. Silke, Ray (8 August 2015). "Column: Three questions for the football quarter-finals". RTÉ Sport. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
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