1918 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

1918 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning team Wexford (5th win)
Provincial Champions
Munster Tipperary
Leinster Wexford
Ulster Cavan
Connacht Mayo
Championship statistics
← 1917
1919 →

The 1918 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 32nd staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Wexford won a record fourth title in a row, an achievement which had never been completed.[1][2][3]

Results

Connacht Championship

Roscommon 0-5 – 1-4 Leitrim
Mayo 1-6 – 1-0 Sligo
Galway 1-5 – 1-0 Leitrim
Mayo 0-4 – 0-1 Galway

Leinster Championship

Quarter Final
Wexford 2-6 – 0-1 Kilkenny
Quarter Final
Westmeath 4-4 – 1-2 Offaly
Semi Final
Louth 1-4 – 1-3 Meath
Semi Final
Wexford 5-8 – 2-2 Carlow
Final
Wexford 2-5 – 1-4 Louth

Munster Championship

Tipperary 1-5 – 0-2 Cork
Referee: A. Quillinan (L)
Tipperary 4-4 – 0-0 Waterford
Kerry 5-3 – 1-3 Clare
Tipperary 1-1 – 0-1 Kerry
Referee: M. Mehigan ( C )

Ulster Championship

Antrim 4-1 – 2-4 Derry
Armagh 0-5 – 0-4 Down
Cavan 1-4 – 1-2 Fermanagh
Monaghan 4-4 – 1-0 Tyrone
Antrim 1-2 – 0-3 Monaghan
Cavan 2-4 – 0-0 Armagh
Attendance: 3,000
Cavan 3-2 – 0-0 Antrim

All-Ireland Championship

By the time the semi-final was to be played, the Leinster championship was not finished, so Louth were nominated to represent Leinster. When Wexford beat Louth in the Leinster final, they were given Louth's place in the All-Ireland final.

Louth 2-4 – 0-4 Cavan
Tipperary 2-2 – 1-4 Mayo
Referee: J. McGrath
Wexford 0-5 – 0-4 Tipperary
Attendance: 12,000
Referee: F. Patrick

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

  • Wexford become the first county to win the Leinster football title for the sixth year in a row and the All Ireland football title for the fourth year in a row.

References

  1. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-03-21. Retrieved 2011-07-07.
  2. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2011-07-07.
  3. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-09-28. Retrieved 2011-09-28.
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