1954 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

1954 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning team Meath (2nd win)
Provincial Champions
Munster Kerry
Leinster Meath
Ulster Cavan
Connacht Galway
Championship statistics
← 1953
1955 →

The 1954 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 68th staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition.

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

Results

Connacht Senior Football Championship

Mayo 4-9 – 1-7 Roscommon
Attendance: 15,000
Sligo 1-8 – 1-7 Leitrim
Galway 2-4 – 1-5 Mayo
Attendance: 5,000
Galway 2-10 – 3-4 Sligo
Attendance: 15,000

Leinster Senior Football Championship

Longford 1-6 – 0-7 Laois
Kildare 1-5 – 0-8 Carlow
Kildare 1-9 – 2-6
A.E.T.		 Carlow
Meath 1-9 – 1-8 Wicklow
Kildare 1-7 – 1-6 Carlow
Dublin 0-11 – 0-2 Louth
Longford 1-7 – 1-4 Westmeath
Wexford 0-7 – 1-5 Offaly
Referee: W Delaney
Meath 3-2 – 0-5 Kildare
Dublin 2-4 – 2-5 Offaly
Referee: W Goodison
Meath 2-9 – 1-5 Longford
Meath 4-7 – 2-10 Offaly
Attendance: 44109
Referee: W Goodison

Munster Senior Football Championship

Note there were no Quarter-Final's were played Limerick didn't complete (1953-1964) while Clare decided to skip the Munster championships for just 1 year. This means that Kerry, Cork, Tipperary and Waterford would go on straight to the Semi-Final's with the winners of both matches qualify for the final.

Kerry 3-10 – 1-2 Waterford
Cork 3-11 – 2-7 Tipperary
Referee: J. O'Connell (L)
Kerry 4-9 – 2-3 Cork

Ulster Senior Football Championship

Tyrone 1-7 – 1-5 Donegal
Derry 4-11 – 3-4 Down
Armagh 1-8 – 1-6 Antrim
Attendance: 4,000
Cavan 3-8 – 2-5 Monaghan
Armagh 1-12 – 2-6 Derry
Cavan 3-10 – 2-10 Tyrone
Cavan 2-10 – 2-5 Armagh

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

Meath 1-5 – 0-7 Cavan
Attendance: 42,123
Kerry 2-6 – 1-6 Galway
Attendance: 40,740
Meath 1-13 – 1-7 Kerry
Attendance: 75,276

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

  • Munster championship didn't have Quarter-finals, due to Limerick 2nd year not taking part while Clare skipped the year.
  • Galway end a 9 year wait for the Connacht football title.
  • The All Ireland final was Meath's first ever win over Kerry in history.

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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