Donegal–Mayo Gaelic football rivalry

The Donegal-Mayo rivalry is a Gaelic football rivalry between Irish 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 MacCumhaill Park and Mayo's home ground is MacHale Park; however, all but one of their championship meetings have been held at neutral venues, usually Croke Park. The first championship meeting between the two counties to take place in either Donegal or Mayo was in 2019 when they played each other in MacHale Park at the All-Ireland quarter-final group stage.

Donegal-Mayo
LocaleCounty Donegal
County Mayo
TeamsDonegal
Mayo
First meetingDonegal 0-13 - 0-9 Mayo
1992 All-Ireland semi-final
(16 August 1992)
Latest meetingMayo 1-14 - 1-10 Donegal
2019 All-Ireland quarter-final group stage
(3 August 2019)
Statistics
Meetings total5
Most winsMayo (3)
Top scorerCillian O'Connor (4-16)
All-time seriesMayo 3-2 Donegal
Largest victoryMayo 4-17 - 1-10 Donegal
2013 All-Ireland quarter-final
(4 August 2013)

While Mayo have the highest number of Connacht titles and Donegal are sixth 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.

All-time results

Legend
Mayo win
Donegal win
Match was a draw

Senior
No. Date Winners Score Runners-up Venue Stage
1.16 August 1992Donegal0-13- 0-9MayoCroke ParkAll Ireland semi-final
2.23 September 2012Donegal2-11- 0-13MayoCroke ParkAll Ireland final
3.4 August 2013Mayo4-17- 1-10DonegalCroke ParkAll Ireland quarter-final
4.8 August 2015Mayo2-13- 0-11DonegalCroke ParkAll Ireland quarter-final
5.3 August 2019Mayo1-14- 1-10DonegalMacHale ParkAll Ireland quarter-final group stage

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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