Tipperary GAA suffer €126,000 deficit as they spend record €2.175m on teams
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Tipperary GAA recorded a deficit for the second year in a row as their inter-county expenditure exceeded €2 million for the first time.
Worryingly for the county, a loss of €126,000 was incurred for 2024 following a €78,203 deficit last year.
A total of €2.175m was spent on preparing inter-county teams, a jump of €378,000 from last year’s spend of €1.797m. It is the highest figure ever recorded in the county’s history, almost €400,000 more than in 2019 when the county won their last Liam MacCarthy Cup as well an U21 All-Ireland title but also suffered a €371,596 loss.
A total of €413,106 was spent on players’ mileage this past year compared to €296,888 in 2023 with the senior footballers accounting for more than the hurlers (€181,998 as opposed to €172,306). The rise in mileage claims was put down largely to increase panel senior football and hurling panels.
The accumulated cost relating to team managers and selectors of €289,061 was up just shy of €100,000 from 2023. The breakdown illustrated €117,787 went towards senior hurling management expenses and €71,942 to those in the senior football set-up. The combined travel and accommodation costs almost doubled to €181,900.
Although Tipperary senior hurlers’ 2023 season when they reached the All-Ireland quarter-finals extended longer than this past year when they did not emerge from the Munster SHC, their 2024 activities cost considerably more, €765,719, up from €587,374. The outlay on the senior footballers jumped from €471,683 to €571,693.
Tipperary’s €2.175m spend on teams, the third biggest by a county so far behind Galway and Cork, also means the six Munster counties’ costs in running teams exceeded €11m, a new high and increase of approximately €500,000 on their combined figure in 2023.
Last week, Kilkenny announced a deficit of €159,679 despite spending €1.2m on their team, a decrease from the 2023 figure of €1.32m. Their breakdown showed €55,586 was spent on team managers and selectors, €210,473 on backroom team personnel, €85,890 on travel and accommodation while €85,688 went towards training weekends.
Antrim (€126,306), Roscommon (€268,935), Waterford (€164,743) and Westmeath (€70,000) are four other counties who recorded deficits in 2024. Roscommon’s loss was a considerable one with a total expenditure number of €1.427m, up from €1.32m last year and their team management expenses was a whopping €325,569, up over €100,000 from the previous financial year.
Westmeath spent €1.2m on their squads, almost €144,000 on their senior football management team and €128,000 on their hurling equivalents. Antrim spent almost €50,000 less on their teams than last year.