1957 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

1957 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning team	Louth (3rd win)
Captain	Dermot O'Brien
Manager	Jim "Sogger" Quigley
Provincial Champions
Munster	Cork
Leinster	Louth
Ulster	Tyrone
Connacht	Galway
Championship statistics
	← 1956 1958 →

The 1957 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 71st staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition.

Louth won their third, and so-far last, title.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Results

Connacht Senior Football Championship

9 June 1957
Quarter-Final

Roscommon	0-7 – 0-6	Mayo

St. Coman's Park, Roscommon

Attendance: 7,560

23 June 1957
Semi-Final

Sligo	2-1 – 1-8	Leitrim

Carrick-on-Shannon

30 June 1957
Semi-Final

Galway	0-13 – 0-7	Roscommon

St. Coman's Park, Roscommon

14 July 1957
Final

Galway	4-8 – 0-4	Leitrim

Pearse Stadium, Galway

Attendance: 13,000

Leinster Senior Football Championship

5 May 1957
Preliminary Round

Longford	1-10 – 0-6	Westmeath

Cusack Park, Mullingar

5 May 1957
Preliminary Round

Louth	3-6 – 0-4	Carlow

Páirc Tailteann, Navan

12 May 1957
Preliminary Round

Wicklow	3-6 – 1-6	Laois

Geraldine Park, Athy

19 May 1957
Quarter-Final

Kildare	2-10 – 1-3	Offaly

O'Moore Park, Portlaoise

Attendance: 12000

Referee: E Moules (Wicklow)

26 May 1957
Quarter-Final

Wicklow	3-7 – 1-11	Meath

Geraldine Park, Athy

26 May 1957
Quarter-Final

Louth	1-12 – 2-9	Wexford

Croke Park, Dublin

2 June 1957
Quarter-Final

Dublin	2-10 – 1-4	Longford

Cusack Park, Mullingar

16 June 1957
Semi-Final

Louth	5-8 – 1-9	Kildare

Croke Park, Dublin

23 June 1957
Semi-Final

Dublin	3-9 – 0-9	Wicklow

St. Conleth's Park, Newbridge

14 July 1957
Final

Louth	2-9 – 1-7	Dublin

Croke Park, Dublin

Munster Senior Football Championship

19 May 1957
Quarter-Final

Tipperary	2-9 – 4-5	Clare

Gaelic Grounds, Limerick

Referee: J. Kerins (K)

2 June 1957
Semi-Final

Waterford	2-5 – 0-10	Kerry

Walsh Park, Waterford

9 June 1957
Semi-Final

Cork	1-7 – 0-3	Clare

Charleville

21 July 1957
Final

Cork	0-16 – 1-2	Waterford

Semple Stadium, Thurles

Ulster Senior Football Championship

9 June 1957
Quarter-Final

Derry	4-14 – 0-8	Antrim

Dean McGlinchey Park, Ballinascreen

16 June 1957
Quarter-Final

Donegal	3-2 – 0-6	Down

Ballyshannon

16 June 1957
Quarter-Final

Cavan	1-12 – 1-5	Monaghan

Breffni Park, Cavan

30 June 1957
Quarter-Final

Tyrone	2-9 – 3-5	Armagh

The Playing Fields, Lurgan

7 July 1957
Semi-Final

Derry	1-10 – 1-9	Cavan

O'Neill Park, Dungannon

14 July 1957
Semi-Final

Tyrone	3-5 – 2-3	Donegal

Breffni Park, Cavan

28 July 1957
Final

Tyrone	1-9 – 0-10	Derry

St. Tiernach's Park, Clones

Attendance: 36,500

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

11 August 1957
Semi-Final

Cork	2-4 – 0-9	Galway

Croke Park, Dublin

Attendance: 57,066

18 August 1957
Semi-Final

Louth	0-13 – 0-7	Tyrone

Croke Park, Dublin

Attendance: 30,723

22 September 1957
Final

Louth	1-9 – 1-7	Cork

Croke Park, Dublin

Attendance: 72,732

Referee: P Geraghty (Galway)

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

Wicklow record their first ever win over Meath.
Waterford record their first win over Kerry since 1911.
The Connacht final between Galway and Leitrim was the first game ever played at the new Pearse Stadium, in Galway named after both brothers of the 1916 rising Padraic Pearse and William Pearse.
Louth win the All Ireland title for the first time since 1912.
There were a number of first-time championship meetings: The All Ireland football semi-final between Louth and Tyrone and the All Ireland final between Louth and Cork.

References

↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-03-21. Retrieved 2011-07-23.
↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2011-07-23.
↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-09-28. Retrieved 2011-09-28.

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[1] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-03-21. Retrieved 2011-07-23.

[2] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2011-07-23.

[3] "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-09-28. Retrieved 2011-09-28.

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