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The team competes in three of the four major annual inter-county competitions; the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, Tailteann Cup and the Connacht Senior Football Championship; it does not currently compete in the National Football League. New York's home ground is Gaelic Park, New York City. The team's manager is Johnny McGeeney.
The New York Senior Football Championship is a Gaelic football competition for teams affiliated to the New York (New York GAA) board of the Gaelic Athletic Association. Teams are generally from the New York area, though a team from Stamford, Connecticut, has participated in recent years, and in 2006 Four Provinces represented Philadelphia.
Hurling and Gaelic football have been played in North America ever since Irish immigrants began landing on North American shores. The earliest games of hurling in North America were played in St. John's, Newfoundland in 1788, [2] and there are records of football being played in Hyde Park (now the site of the Civic Center) in San Francisco as early as the 1850s.
The New York GAA has a long history in Gaelic games starting at a time of the mass immigration to New York from Ireland. The first organised hurling and football club in New York was founded in 1857. [6] Since then football in New York has grown. At one point there were close to 40 football clubs in the New York GAA league.
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The New York GAA has a long history in Gaelic games starting at a time of the mass immigration to New York from Ireland. The first organized hurling and football club in New York was founded in 1857. [2] The Toronto Divisional board of the GAA was formed in 1947. [3]
The GAA's inter county competitions are the organisation's most attended competitions and are Ireland's most attended sporting events, while the All-Ireland finals are the most watched. [4] and the All-Ireland Football Final is the most watched event in Ireland's sporting calendar. [5]
Most prestigious competition in Gaelic Football. Tailteann Cup – Tier 2 inter-county competition. For counties eliminated in the early stages of the All-Ireland Championship and/or unable to be promoted to Division 2 or above of the League.