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{{short description|Gaelic football competition in Connacht, Ireland}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox GAA championship
|image=
|name=2020 FBD Insurance Connacht GAA Senior Football Competition
|matches=4
|province=Connacht
|year=2020
|manager=  [[Pádraic Joyce]]
|captain=  [[Shane Walsh (Gaelic footballer)|Shane Walsh]]
|winners=  {{GG|Galway|football}}
|ordinal=  9
|runnersup       =  {{GG|Roscommon|football}}
|runnerupcaptain =  Conor Devaney
|runnerupmanager = [[Anthony Cunningham]]
|sponsor         = [[FBD Holdings|FBD]]
|previous=[[2019 FBD Insurance League|2019]]
|next=[[2022 FBD Insurance Connacht GAA Senior Football Competition|2022]]
}}
The '''2020 [[FBD Insurance Connacht GAA Senior Football Competition]]''' was an inter-county [[Gaelic football]] competition in the province of [[Connacht]]. All five Connacht [[GAA county teams|county teams]] participated, but there are no college or university teams.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sligogaa.ie/ArticleDetail.aspx?articleid=32298|title=Sligo GAA - Early start for county Footballers -FBD|website=www.sligogaa.ie}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://connachtgaa.ie/news/fbd-league-fixtures-for-january-published/|title=FBD League Fixtures for January Published|date=November 26, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://hoganstand.com/Sligo/article/index/306312|title=2020 FBD Connacht SFL fixtures released - HoganStand|website=hoganstand.com}}</ref>
{{GG|Galway|football}} were the winners.
==Competition format==
The competition is a straight knockout. Drawn games go to a [[Glossary of Gaelic games terms#P|penalty shoot-out]] without the playing of extra-time.
==Fixtures and results==
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| date       =  {{start date|2020|1|5|df=y}}
| time       = 14:00 [[Time in Ireland|GMT]] ([[UTC+00:00|UTC±0]])
| round      = Quarter-final
| team1      = {{GG|Sligo|football}} [[File:Colours of Sligo.svg|20px|border]]
| score1     =   0-14 {{small|(14)}}
| score2     =   {{small|(18)}} 1-15
| team2      = [[File:Colours of Roscommon.svg|20px|border]] {{GG|Roscommon|football}}
| location   = [[Sligo]]
| venue      =[[Markievicz Park]]
| referee    = Jerome Henry (Mayo)
|HT= 0-04 – 0-09
| report     =[https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/sport/gaa/roscommon-advance-past-sligo-thanks-to-late-mckeon-strike-973704.html Report]
}}
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| date       =  {{start date|2020|1|12|df=y}}
| time       = 14:00 [[Time in Ireland|GMT]] ([[UTC+00:00|UTC±0]])
| round      = Semi-final
| team1      =  {{GG|Roscommon|football}} [[File:Colours of Roscommon.svg|20px|border]]
| score1     =   7-16 {{small|(37)}}
| score2     =   {{small|(7)}} 0-07
| team2      = [[File:Colours of Leitrim.svg|20px|border]] {{GG|Leitrim|football}}
| location   = [[Carrick-on-Shannon]]
| venue      =[[Páirc Seán Mac Diarmada]]
| referee    =
|HT= 4-07 – 0-01
| report     =[https://www.leitrimobserver.ie/news/gaelic-games/508097/leitrim-suffer-trouncing-at-hands-of-clinical-roscommon.html Report]
}}
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| date       =  {{start date|2020|1|12|df=y}}
| time       = 14:00 [[Time in Ireland|GMT]] ([[UTC+00:00|UTC±0]])
| round      = Semi-final
| team1      = {{GG|Mayo|football}} [[File:Colours of Mayo.svg|20px|border]]
| score1     =   1-17 {{small|(20)}}
| score2     =   {{small|(20)}} 1-17
| team2      = [[File:Colours of Galway.svg|20px|border]] {{GG|Galway|football}}
| location   = [[Castlebar]]
| venue      =[[MacHale Park]]
| referee    = P Guckian (Leitrim)
|HT= 0-09 – 0-08
| report     =[https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/galway-edge-mayo-on-penalties-to-book-fbd-final-place-as-padraic-joyce-makes-winning-start-38854806.html Report]
| pentakers1  = Fergal Boland {{nay}}<br />Liam Irwin {{tick|12}}<br />[[Kevin McLoughlin]] {{tick|12}}<br />Gary Boylan {{nay}}<br />Brian Walsh {{nay}}
| pentakers2  = {{tick|12}} [[Shane Walsh (Gaelic footballer)|Shane Walsh]]<br />{{nay}} [[Paul Conroy (Gaelic footballer)|Paul Conroy]]<br /> {{tick|12}} [[Damien Comer]]<br />{{nay}} Adrian Varley<br />{{tick|12}} [[Tom Flynn (Gaelic footballer)|Tom Flynn]]
| penscore    =2–3
|attendance=7,000
}}
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| date       =  {{start date|2020|1|18|df=y}}
| time       = 14:00 [[Time in Ireland|GMT]] ([[UTC+00:00|UTC±0]])
| round      = Final
| team1      =  {{GG|Roscommon|football}} [[File:Colours of Roscommon.svg|20px|border]]
| score1     =   0-11 {{small|(11)}}
| score2     =   {{small|(17)}} 1-14
| team2      =  [[File:Colours of Galway.svg|20px|border]] {{GG|Galway|football}}
| location   = [[Roscommon]]
| venue      =[[Dr. Hyde Park]]
| referee    = Jerome Henry (Mayo)
|attendance=3,217
|HT= 0-05 – 0-07
|points1=Ciarán Lennon 5 (3f), Donie Smith 2 (1f), Niall Kilroy 1, Richard Hughes 1, Andrew Glennon 1, Cathal Cregg 1
|points2=Shane Walsh 8 (6f, 1 mark), Paul Conroy 2, Robert Finnerty 2, Michael Boyle 1, Seán Mulkerrin 1
|goals2=Shane Walsh 1 (pen)
| report     =[https://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/2020/0118/1108308-walsh-on-song-as-galway-claim-early-season-silverware/ Report]
}}
==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{FBD Insurance League}}
{{GAA 2020}}
[[Category:2020 in Gaelic football|FBD Insurance League]]
[[Category:FBD Insurance League]]