Clubs Tubbercurry is the most successful team in the history of the
Club Championships in Sligo, with 20 senior titles to its name. The last of these was won in 2014.
St Mary's is Sligo's most successful club team in the Provincial and All-Ireland club series with three
Connacht Senior Club Football Championship titles to its name (1977, 1980 and 1983). The club also won the All-Ireland sevens title in 1980. St Mary's, along with Tubbercurry, dominated the club scene in Sligo over a fifteen-year period (1976–1991), with St Mary's claiming eight championships to Tubber's three. The pairing contested the final on eight occasions, including five in succession (1983–1987), and these finals were tense and heated encounters. In recent years Tourlestrane has dominated Sligo club football. St Mary's and Tubbercurry also jointly lead the roll of honour for the Under-21 Championships with Tubbercurry, having both won on six occasions as of 2015. St Mary's leads the roll of honour for the Minor Championship, with 11 titles as of 2015, having won the previous five championships in succession (2011–2015). In the years since the dominance of St Mary's and Tubbercurry, there have been various winners of the county championship with Bunninadden, Coolera/Strandhill, Curry, Eastern Harps, Shamrock Gaels and Tourlestrane all claiming the Owen B. Hunt Cup during the past two decades. Other senior teams that have come close to winning the championship in the past few years include St John's and Easkey. In 2005, Coolera/Strandhill won its first senior title in 98 years, having narrowly lost the 2000 final to Bunninadden, which at that time had not won a title in 109 years. Much of the minor and underage successes within the county have seen Tubbercurry and St Mary's teams dominate this grade in recent years, with many of the titles being won by either of Sligo town's two main clubs in the past decade. Sligo's club football scene is not dominated by any single team; there were no back-to-back winners since the St Patrick's team of 1988 and 1989, the longest out of any county in history, until Tourlestrane did the two-in-a-row in 2016 and 2017. In club football, no Sligo team has ever appeared in an
All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship final.
St Mary's is the only Sligo team to have ever won the
Connacht Senior Club Football Championship, having won it three times in 1977, 1980 and 1983.
Eastern Harps,
Curry and
Tourlestrane have all appeared in Connacht finals.
2023 club football status County team Due to its much smaller population than both
County Galway and
County Mayo, the two dominant forces in the province of Connacht, and competition from professional
League of Ireland football club
Sligo Rovers in the county's capital town. The Sligo county football team have never been able to break from the shackles inherent in the provincial championship format. They have won only three Connacht championships, with about 50 years between each win. These championships came in 1928, 1975 and 2007. Sligo have never appeared in an All-Ireland final. The
1922 Championship is the closest they have come, defeating
Roscommon,
Mayo and
Galway to win the Connacht title, and beating
Tipperary in the subsequent All-Ireland semi-final that followed. However an objection from Galway on what is described as "a flimsy technicality" led to the Connacht decider being brought to a replay, which Sligo went on to lose. Sligo met the same fate in the inaugural
National Football League campaign of 1926, beating
Laois to reach the final, only for Laois to object on the grounds of a Sligo player's name being misspelled; Sligo lost the replay. This gives Sligo the unique position of having qualified for an All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final and a National Football League Final, without ever having contested either. In 1954, Sligo reached the Connacht final against Galway, only for an equalising goal in the final minute to be disallowed. In 1962, Sligo reached the Connacht final against Roscommon, and led for much of the match only to be blighted by a sudden string of injuries, miss a 50 while two points ahead in the final minute, and then gift soon-to-be All-Ireland finalists Roscommon a goal in what is considered "one of the great football tragedies in Connacht". On 27 June 2010, Sligo hosted Galway and led 1–8 to 0–2 at halftime but were shocked by an undeserved draw ending 1–10 each. The replay saw Sligo defeat the Tribesmen on the scoreline of 1–14 to 0–16 to advance to the Connacht Senior Football Final. Once there, after all their hard work and continued misfortune,
Roscommon defeated them by 0–14 to 0–13. Sligo football descended to a new depth on 26 May 2013 when they were dumped out of the Connacht Championship by
London in their first game. The scoreline was 1–12 to 0–14. This was London's first victory in the Connacht Championship since 1977.
Lorcan Mulvey scored the vital London goal. The county Vocational Schools team reached two All-Ireland finals in 1962 and 1963, losing both to Dublin City. ==Hurling==