2000–01 National Football League (Ireland)

2000–01 National Football League

League details
Dates	5 November 2000 – 29 April 2001
Teams	33
League champions
Winners	Mayo (11th win)
Captain	Noel Connelly
Manager	Pat Holmes
League runners-up
Runners-up	Galway
Captain	Gary Fahey
Manager	John O'Mahony
Other division winners
Division 2	Westmeath
← 1999–2000 2002 →

The 2000–01 National Football League, known for sponsorship reasons as the Church & General National Football League, was the 70th staging of the National Football League (NFL), an annual Gaelic football tournament for the Gaelic Athletic Association county teams of Ireland.

Mayo beat Galway in the final.[1][2][3] In Division 2 Westmeath beat Cork final.

Format

2 Divisions note due to Foot and Mouth there were some fixtures some Leinster and Ulster teams also London had to withdraw from later games meaning that in 2002 moving complete game to 1 year.

Results

Division 1

Division 1A Table

  Compete in Division 1 semi-finals   Automatic relegation to Division 2A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	F	A	Average	Pts
Galway	7	5	1	1	4-86	4-66	1.256	11
Roscommon	7	4	1	2	4-75	5-73	0.988	9
Tyrone	7	4	0	3	5-67	2-53	1.389	8
Offaly	7	3	2	2	4-69	2-69	1.080	8
Dublin	7	3	0	4	3-60	4-66	0.884	6
Donegal	7	2	1	4	3-75	2-80	0.977	5
Kerry	7	2	0	5	6-64	7-86	0.766	4
Louth	7	1	1	5	3-57	7-65	0.767	3

Division 1B Table

  Compete in Division 1 semi-finals   Automatic relegation to Division 2B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	F	A	Average	Pts
Mayo	7	5	2	0	5-88	5-57	1.430	12
Sligo	7	4	1	2	5-70	6-59	1.104	9
Derry	7	3	2	2	8-70	6-76	1.000	8
Cavan	7	3	1	3	10-65	8-70	1.012	7
Fermanagh	7	3	1	3	8-57	7-68	0.900	7
Clare	7	2	1	4	6-64	6-75	0.882	5
Laois	7	2	1	4	3-72	7-73	0.861	5
Meath	7	1	1	5	7-66	7-74	0.916	3

Finals

29 April 2001
Final

Mayo	0-13 – 0-12	Galway
J Gill 0-3 (2f); N Connelly, R Loftus (2f), M Sheridan (f, '45') 0-2 each; C McManamon, D McDonagh, S Carolan, M McNicholas 0-1 each		J. Donnellan 0-4 (2f); P Joyce 0-3 (2f); D Savage, M Donnellan 0-2 each; S Walsh 0-1

Croke Park, Dublin

Attendance: 22,623[4]

Referee: Niall Barrett (Cork)

References

1. GAA Final Teams
2. GAA Archive 2001^[permanent dead link‍]
3. "2001: When Mayo beat Galway in the NFL final"
4. "GAA forced to open all Croker stiles for NFL finals"