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| Sport: | Football | ||
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| Irish: | Doire[1] | ||
| Nickname(s): | The Oak Leafers | ||
| County board: | Derry GAA | ||
| Manager: | Paddy Tally | ||
| Captain: | Conor Glass | ||
| Home venue(s): | Celtic Park, Derry[1] Owenbeg, Dungiven[1] | ||
| Recent competitive record | |||
| Current All-Ireland status: | Ulster (W) in 2023 | ||
| Last championship title: | 1993 | ||
| Current NFL Division: | 1 | ||
| Last league title: | 2024 | ||
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The Derry county football team represents Derry GAA, the county board of the Gaelic Athletic Association, in the Gaelic sport of football.[2] The team competes in the three major annual inter-county competitions; the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, the Ulster Senior Football Championship and the National Football League.
Derry's home ground is Celtic Park. The team's manager is Rory Gallagher.
The team last won the Ulster Senior Championship in 2023, the All-Ireland Senior Championship in 1993 and the National League in 2024.
The team is nicknamed the Oak Leafers.[3][4][5]
- ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference
Ulster_GAAwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Barry, Stephen (30 January 2018). "'It will not happen again': BBC apologise for Londonderry GAA reference". Irish Examiner.
- ^ "Derry football boss anticipates mid-March League start". 27 January 2021.
If the Oak Leafers fail to get out of Division Three and don't clinch an unlikely Ulster Championship triumph...
- ^ "'If we're going to compete we need to iron out the flaws' - McKaigue". 30 May 2021.
The Oak Leafers saw off the Breffinimen 1-16 to 2-11 at Kingspan Breffni Park on Saturday.
- ^ "Tribesmen win with ease on the road against Derry in Division 2". RTÉ. 28 February 2016.
The Oak Leafers had manager Damian Barton serving a touchline suspension and suffered badly in a game they rarely looked like making a contest out of.