Editing Galway (section)

====Association football====
[[File:Terryland park.jpg|thumb|[[Eamonn Deacy Park]]]]
[[Galway United FC]] is based in the city and plays in the [[League of Ireland Premier Division]]. The team plays its home games at [[Eamonn Deacy Park]]. The current incarnation of the club, formed in 2013 from a merger of the Galway United Supporters Trust, [[Mervue United A.F.C.|Mervue United]] and [[Salthill Devon F.C.|Salthill Devon]], first competed in the [[2014 League of Ireland|2014 season]].

The previous tenants of Eamonn Deacy Park, also called [[Galway United F.C. (1937–2011)|Galway United]], first competed in the League of Ireland in 1977, then known as ''Galway Rovers''. [[Michael D. Higgins]], later elected [[President of Ireland]] in 2011, served as the president of the club in a ceremonial capacity.

Galway United has won domestic honours in several men's and women's competitions. The men's team were [[FAI Cup]] winners in 1991 and [[League of Ireland Cup]] winners in 1986 and 1997, while the women's team were [[All-Island Cup]] winners in 2023 and 2024.{{fact|date=January 2025}}