FBD Insurance League

The FBD, also called the FBD Insurance League, FBD Connacht League, the Connacht FBD Football League or FBD Insurance Connacht GAA Senior Football Competition, is an annual Gaelic football competition organised by Connacht GAA and sponsored by FBD. The participants are the five county teams.

FBD
Current season or competition:
FBD 2023
IrishSraith Peile FBD
Founded1995
TrophyPaddy Francis Dwyer Cup[1]
No. of teams5
Title holdersMayo (8th title)
First winnerMayo
Most titlesGalway (10 titles)
SponsorsFBD

Formerly several third-level college teams also competed, but from 2018 onward it became an all-county tournament. In 2019 and 2020 it was a knockout tournament with no league element, and so it was called the "Connacht GAA Senior Football Competition"; in 2023 it was simply referred to as "the FBD."[2] It was cancelled in 2021 due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Gaelic games, but returned in January 2022.[3][4]

Galway lead the way with most titles.

The trophy is named for Paddy Francis Dwyer (1937–1994), a longtime referee and official with Oran and the Roscommon County Board; he was also an activist in the National Farmers' Association in their 1966–67 farmers' rights campaign. He was the manager of FBD Insurance in the Connacht region.[5][6][7]

Winners
Team Wins Years won
Galway 10 1998, 2001, 2002, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2016, 2017, 2020, 2022
Mayo 8 1995, 1996, 2000, 2003, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2023
Roscommon 5 1997, 1999, 2015, 2018, 2019
Leitrim 2 2013, 2014
Sligo 1 2004
GMIT 1 2005
IT Sligo 1 2007

No tournament was held in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

References
  1. Finnerty, Mike (21 February 2010). "Mayo beat Galway in FBD League Final". The Mayo News.
  2. "FBD League Fixtures for January Published". 26 November 2019.
  3. Lawlor, Damian (24 November 2021). "Connacht chief thrilled with historic air dome game". RTÉ.ie.
  4. "2023 Connacht Senior Football Championship and FBD Fixture Details". 21 October 2022.
  5. "Patrick Francis Dwyer". geni_family_tree.
  6. "Roscommon Senior Football Championship Final records".
  7. "Tributes paid to pioneering farm leader". Roscommon Herald. 10 December 2020.
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