Jim McGuinness is set to remain on as Donegal senior football manager for a fourth year.

The 2012 All-Ireland SFC winning manager has been an interested spectator at club championship games in the county over the past few weeks and DonegalLive is now reporting that he will be at the Donegal helm once again in 2027.

McGuinness served four years during his previous tenure from 2011 to '14, during which he won three Ulster SFC titles and the Sam Maguire. He stepped down after Donegal lost the 2014 All-Ireland final to Kerry, only to return again a decade later.

Since then, the Glenties man has led the Tir Chonaill outfit to two more Ulster SFC titles and an All-Ireland final appearance against Kerry last year. They avenged that defeat with big wins over the Kingdom in this year's Allianz League final and in Round 1 of the All-Ireland SFC.

The latter win came after a shock Ulster SFC quarter-final loss at home to Down, while further defeats to Cork and Dublin put them out of All-Ireland contention.

McGuinness is expected to make changes to his backroom team ahead of the new campaign.

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