2016 Galway county football team season

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The following is a summary of Galway county football team's 2016 season.

Galway began their campaign by securing a 6th FBD Insurance League title, with a win over Roscommon. Galway ended Mayo's bid for a sixth consecutive Connacht SFC title with an unlikely three-point victory at McHale Park. In the 2016 All-Ireland SFC quarter-final Galway were defeated by Tipperary.^[1]

Home

Change

  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed/Cancelled

Date	Round	Home	Score	Away	Ground
3 Jan	Group	Galway	2-9 v 0-12	Sligo	Tuam
10 Jan	Group	Galway	1-8 v 1-5	Leitrim	Tuam
17 Jan	Group	Galway	0-13 v 0-10	GMIT	Tuam

Team	Pld	W	D	L	Pts	Diff
Galway	3	3	0	0	6	+14
Leitrim	3	2	0	1	4	+18
GMIT	3	1	0	2	2	–23
Sligo	3	0	0	3	0	–9

Date	Round	Home	Score	Away	Ground
31 Jan	Group	Laois	1-10 - 3-12	Galway	O'Moore Park, Portlaoise
7 Feb	Group	Galway	1-9 - 1-11	Tyrone	Pearse Stadium, Salthill
28 Feb	Group	Derry	2-12 - 1-18	Galway	Páirc na gCeilteach, Derry
6 Mar	Group	Galway	0-15 - 1-12	Meath	Pearse Stadium, Salthill
13 Mar	Group	Armagh	1-15 - 1-15	Galway	Athletic Grounds, Armagh
27 Mar	Group	Galway	0-15 - 0-15	Fermanagh	St Jarlath's Park, Tuam
3 Apr	Group	Cavan	1-16 - 1-12	Galway	Breffni Park, Cavan

  Compete in Division 2 final and automatic promotion to Division 1
  Automatic relegation to Division 3

Team	Pld	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
Tyrone	7	5	2	0	6-89	3-76	22	12
Cavan	7	5	0	2	8-102	3-81	36	10
Galway	7	2	3	2	7-96	7-91	5	7
Fermanagh	7	2	2	3	2-85	6-75	-2	6
Meath	7	2	2	3	6-82	5-91	-6	6
Derry	7	2	2	3	13-86	9-106	-8	6
Armagh	7	2	2	3	4-86	6-96	-16	6
Laois	7	1	1	5	4-93	11-103	-31	3

¹Fermanagh, Meath, Derry and Armagh are ranked by scoring difference.

Date	Round	Team 1	Score	Team 2	Ground
Sunday 5 June 2016	Semi-final	Mayo	0-12 - 1-12	Galway	McHale Park
Sunday 10 July 2016	Final	Galway	0-13 - 1-10	Roscommon	Pearse Stadium, Salthill
Sunday 17 July 2016	Final replay	Galway	3-16 - 0-14	Roscommon	McHale Park

	Preliminary round					Quarter-finals					Semi-finals					Final
	New York		0-17
	Roscommon		1-15			Roscommon		1-21
						Leitrim		0-11
											Roscommon		4-16
											Sligo		2-13
																Roscommon (R)		1-10 0-14
																Galway (R)		0-13 3-16
						London		0-9
						Mayo		2-16
											Mayo		0-12
											Galway		1-12

Date	Round	Team 1	Score	Team 2	Ground
Sunday 31 July 2016	AI SFC quarter-final	Tipperary	3-13 - 1-10	Galway	Croke Park