page_title: Mayo county football team
section_title: 2010–2019: Unsuccessful championship pursuits
hierarchical_section_title: Mayo county football team / History / 2010–2019: Unsuccessful championship pursuits
caption_attribution_description: English: The flag of County Mayo (Maigh Eo in Irish) flies outside a house in Mayo in Ireland on the day of the 2017 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
context_page_description: The Mayo county football team represents Mayo in men's Gaelic football and is governed by Mayo GAA, the County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association. The team compete in the three major annual inter-county competitions; the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, the Connacht Senior Football Championship and the National Football League.
  Mayo's home ground is MacHale Park, Castlebar. The team's manager is James Horan.
  The team last won the Connacht Senior Championship in 2015, the All-Ireland Senior Championship in 1951 and the National League in 2019.
context_section_description: 2010 was a nadir for Mayo; despite reaching the National League Final, they were beaten by Cork, and defeat in the Connacht Championship first round by Sligo was followed up by an All-Ireland Qualifier Round 1 loss to Longford. John O'Mahony immediately stepped down as Mayo manager following the game. The return of 'Johnno' had promised much, but only a single Connacht title was won in that tenure, and the county suffered a number of poor defeats in the Qualifiers.
  O'Mahony was replaced by James Horan for the 2011 campaign. Horan had won a Mayo Senior Football Championship with Ballintubber as manager the previous year. After suffering a scare in London in the first round of the 2011 Connacht Championship, Mayo won that years Championship by beating Roscommon in a rain-sodden Dr Hyde Park. Mayo were underdogs going into the  All-Ireland Quarter-Final against reigning All-Ireland Champions Cork but won by four points. The Championship ended at the Semi-Final stage with a nine-point defeat to Kerry, but the improved performances augured well for the future.
   Andy Moran was subsequently selected at full-forward on the All-Stars team.
  Mayo reached the final of the National Football League in 2012, but lost out to Cork 2-10 to 0-11. Mayo retained the Connacht title with wins over Leitrim and Sligo before defeating Down in the Quarter Final. Facing reigning champions Dublin in the Semi-Final, Mayo survived a Dublin fightback to win 0-19 to 0-16 and reach their first final since 2006. Conceding two goals in the first eleven minutes, Mayo lost the 2012 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final to Donegal by 2-11 to 0-13. Four Mayo players earned All-Stars, first-timers Ger Cafferkey, Keith Higgins and Lee Keegan being joined by Alan Dillon for his second.
  In 2013, Mayo easily won their third consecutive Connacht Championship, defeating Galway by 17 points, Roscommon by 12 points and London by 16 points, in what was a novel final. They gained revenge against Donegal for the previous year in the Quarter Final, running out winners 4-17 to 1-10. A 6-point win over Tyrone saw Mayo return to the final, this time to face Dublin. A close game saw Dublin win by a single point on a scoreline of 2-12 to 1-14. Higgins and Keegan won their second All-Stars, along with a first for Colm Boyle and Aidan O'Shea.
  Entering his fourth year as a manager, Horan guided Mayo to another Connacht title after wins over New York, Roscommon and a final victory over Galway, 3-14 to 0-16. A one-point win over Cork led to Semi-Final match up against Kerry. A fantastic second-half performance led to Mayo leading by 5 points going into the last five minutes, however, a Kieren Donaghy goal saw the game end in a draw, 1-16 apiece. Controversially, the replay was fixed for Limerick's Gaelic Grounds due to the unavailability of Croke Park owing to an American Football game taking place there. Another epic match ensued, with the sides once more all square after 70 minutes. Kerry managed to pull away in extra-time, eventually winning 3-16 to 3-13. James Horan stepped down immediately afterwards, having done much to restore the pride to Mayo football, albeit falling just short of winning the All-Ireland. Keith Higgins won his third All-Star in a row, with Colm Boyle taking his second and Cillian O'Connor his first.
  Mayo began 2015 with new joint managers Pat Holmes and Noel Connelly. Defeating Galway in the semi-final, a 6-25 to 2-11 win over Sligo saw Mayo win a record-breaking fifth consecutive Connacht title. Another Quarter-Final defeat of Donegal saw Mayo matched once more against Dublin in the semi-final. Seven points down with five minutes to go, a Cillian O'Connor penalty helped Mayo force a draw, 1-15 to 2-12. The replay was played at a high tempo, but after even first half, Dublin pulled away in the second half to win because of a bad error by management they won by 7 points, 3-15 to 1-14. Lee Keegan was selected for his third All-Star and Aidan O'Shea for his second. The winter again saw controversy envelop Mayo, as a player protest against the manageme
caption: Mayo county flag flying on the day of the All-Ireland final in 2017
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