2017 FBD Insurance League

2017 FBD Insurance League

Tournament details
Province	Connacht
Year	2017
Sponsor	FBD
Winners
Champions	Galway (8th win)
Manager	Kevin Walsh
Captain	Gary O'Donnell
Runners-up
Runners-up	Roscommon
Manager	Kevin McStay
Captain	Ciaráin Murtagh
Other
Matches played	12

The 2017 FBD Insurance League was an inter-county and third-level college gaelic football competition in the province of Connacht. All five Connacht county teams participated. Three college teams competed – Institute of Technology, Sligo, NUI Galway and Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT).^[1][2][3] Galway were the winners. This was the last edition of the tournament to feature college teams.

Format

The teams are drawn into two groups of four teams. Each team plays the other teams in its group once, earning 2 points for a win and 1 for a draw. The two group winners play in the final. Games are 30 minutes a side.

Group stage

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	Pts	Diff
Roscommon	3	2	0	1	4	+30
Mayo	3	2	0	1	4	+5
NUI Galway	3	2	0	1	4	–2
IT Sligo	3	0	0	3	0	–33

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	Pts	Diff
Galway	3	3	0	0	6	+30
Sligo	3	2	0	1	4	+38
Leitrim	3	1	0	2	2	–2
GMIT	3	0	0	3	0	–60

• GMIT gave a walkover to Galway.^[4]

Final

29 January 2017

2 p.m.

Roscommon	0-15 – 2-14	Galway
D Smith 0-7 (3f); C Murtagh 0-2; S McDermott, F Cregg, C Connolly, C Devaney, K Higgins 0-1 each	Report	B McHugh 0-6 (2f); C McDaid, D Cummins (0-1f) 1-1 each; J Heaney 0-3; G O’Donnell 0-2; T Flynn 0-1

Newpark, Kiltoom

Referee: L Devenney (Mayo)

References

1. "2017 Fixtures".
2. Cox, Darragh (23 November 2016). "Connacht FBD League Fixtures 2017 - Ocean FM".
3. "Connacht Gaa Announce Provisional Fixtures for 2017 - Galway Bay FM". 2 November 2016. Archived from the original on 23 December 2016. Retrieved 5 December 2016.
4. "GMIT give walkover to Galway - HoganStand".