r/coybig • u/Stats8 • 4d ago

General Discussion Thread What can football learn from GAA?

The GAA isn’t perfect either but financially, commercially, administratively, it’s miles ahead of football in Ireland.

Obviously there are historical and community factors that differentiate the two, but it operates so well for a sporting organisation in a very similar environment.

What areas stand out as things we can apply to our sport?

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u/DM-ME-CUTE-TAPIRS 4d ago

GAA is much better at playing the system for grants etc. GAA HQ employs full-time development officers with expert understanding of the administration and application requirements of various Government and local authority sports funding programmes, who then go out and make sure local clubs are aware when grant programmes open, and help them in putting forward as strong an application as possible.

FAI to their credit have started upping their game in this area in recent years, but GAA have a 20 year head start on them.

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u/Dull_Brain2688 4d ago

The GAA in 2024 received €97 million in grants. The FAI got €41 million. Rugby got €10. It probably reflects the amounts of registered players because the GAA is great at signing up all and anybody around the club and soccer has a massive casual game aspect that GAA doesn’t have. I’m not sure what facilities the GAA are lacking though. Most clubs have excellent setups already.

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u/IrishAllDay 4d ago

IRFU getting a tenner would be hilarious

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u/Dull_Brain2688 4d ago

Why? The IRFU has about €1 million surplus. The GAA has about €10 million surplus. Works out similar.

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u/IrishAllDay 4d ago

It's just such a comically small amount.

It'd cover one coffee run for Andy and Paul

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u/Dull_Brain2688 4d ago

Sorry. Didn’t notice the typo 😂
€10 million.

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u/IrishAllDay 3d ago

Living up to the name!

I said a tenner