[1] Mayo has won the greatest number of National Football League titles consecutively (six, from 1934 to 1939).

Mayo was the longest serving team in Division 1 of the National Football League when relegated in 2020, having played there since 1997.

The county team won its first All-Ireland Senior Football Championship (SFC) in 1936, defeating Laois in the final.

[4][5][6] In 2020, Mayo conceded the fastest goal in the history of All-Ireland SFC finals, knocking more than twenty seconds off a record which had stood for 58 years.

[7] In the 2021 loss, Ryan O'Donoghue hit a penalty against the goalpost and numerous other goal chances were squandered.

Mayo won the 2016 Nicky Rackard Cup, defeating Armagh by a scoreline of 2–16 to 1–15 at Croke Park.

[10] Mayo contested the All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship final of 1959, captained by Josie Ruane from Menulla.

[11] Under Camogie's National Development Plan 2010–2015, "Our Game, Our Passion",[12] Donegal, Kerry, Mayo and Monaghan were to get a total of 14 new clubs by 2015.