The staggering cost of funding county football teams is revealed in the Galway football board accounts which will be presented to delegates next Monday night at Loughgeorge.
The combined spend on the senior, U-21, minor and junior teams for 2010 came in at €927,479.
That spend included €93,518 which was the cost of the senior’s trip to New York for the Connacht championship, however Connacht council provided a grant of €50,000 for that game to the football board.
The other big cost items during any given year are: travel (€131, 484 ), for the seniors alone, catering for the senior squad was €46,211, combined physiotherapy expenses for the four teams which cost almost €70,000, and medical expenses of €52,051.
Despite the big outlay, the football board only returned a small net deficit of €7,153 for the season, thanks in the main to the profit from the county lotto and the income generated by Club Galway.
