1943 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

1943 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning team Roscommon (1st win)
Provincial Champions
Munster Cork
Leinster Louth
Ulster Cavan
Connacht Roscommon
Championship statistics
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The 1943 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 57th staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition.

Roscommon were the winners.[1][2][3]

Results

Connacht Senior Football Championship

Leitrim 4-9 – 2-8 Sligo
Galway 3-6 – 1-5 Mayo
Attendance: 3,000
Roscommon 2-12 – 1-3 Leitrim
Roscommon 2-8 – 0-8 Galway
St. Coman's Park, Roscommon

Leinster Senior Football Championship

Louth 2-10 – 1-8 Meath
Westmeath 1-5 – 2-2 Longford
Wexford 3-6 – 0-0 Kilkenny
Barrett's Park, New Ross
Longford 2-6 – 1-8 Westmeath
Kildare 1-10 – 4-8 Laois
Carlow 2-6 – 2-6 Wexford
Louth 4-5 – 1-6 Dublin
Carlow 1-7 – 1-1 Wexford
Offaly 2-11 – 2-9 Laois
Louth 1-9 – 2-3 Offaly
Referee: P Dunne
Laois 3-8 – 3-6 Carlow
Louth 3-16 – 2-4 Laois

Munster Senior Football Championship

Tipperary 2-7 – 0-9 Waterford
Referee: P. J. O'Sullivan ( T )
Clare 2-10 – 2-4 Limerick
Cork 0-9 – 0-9 Kerry
Tipperary 3-5 – 2-6 Clare
Referee: B. Scannell (Galway)
Cork 1-5 – 1-4 Kerry
Cork 1-7 – 1-4 Tipperary
Referee: T. Greaney (W)

Ulster Senior Football Championship

Donegal 0-7 – 1-8 Tyrone
Monaghan 3-8 – 3-4 Armagh
Antrim 0-13 – 1-8 Down
Cavan 4-10 – 1-3 Tyrone
Monaghan 1-10 – 1-5 Antrim
Cavan 2-3 – 0-5 Monaghan
Attendance: 7,000

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

Roscommon 3-10 – 3-6 Louth
Attendance: 18,347
Cavan 1-8 – 1-7 Cork
Attendance: 30,322
Roscommon 1-6 – 1-6 Cavan
Attendance: 68,023
Roscommon 2-7 – 2-2 Cavan
Attendance: 47,193

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

  • The Wexford vs Kilkenny game was Kilkenny's only game (1931-1961) and also was the last championship game to be played at New Ross until 1997.
  • Louth win the Leinster championship for the first time since 1912.
  • Cork won their first Munster title since 1928.
  • Roscommon won the All Ireland title for the first time ever becoming the third county from Connacht after Galway in 1925 and then Mayo in 1936 to do so they also won their Connacht title since 1914.
  • There were a number of first-time championship meetings: The complete All Ireland Series from the Semi-finals of Roscommon vs Louth, Cavan vs Cork and the final between Roscommon and Cavan were all the first championship meetings of the teams.
  • The All-Ireland final ends in a draw and goes to a replay for the first time since 1938.

References

  1. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-03-21. Retrieved 2011-07-22.
  2. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2011-07-22.
  3. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-09-28. Retrieved 2011-09-28.
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