1961 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

1961 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning team Down (2nd win)
Captain Paddy Doherty
Provincial Champions
Munster Kerry
Leinster Offaly
Ulster Down
Connacht Roscommon
Championship statistics
No. matches played 32
← 1960
1962 →

The 1961 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 75th staging of All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county Gaelic football tournament. The championship began on 30 April 1961 and ended on 24 September 1961.

Kilkenny return to the Leinster championship for the first time since 1943.

Down won their second All-Ireland in a row.[1][2][3]


Results

Connacht Senior Football Championship

Galway 0–10 – 0–6 Mayo
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: J. Martin (Roscommon)
Roscommon 2–9 – 2–6 Sligo
Attendance: 6,000
Referee: Patsy Geraghty (Galway)
Leitrim 2–9 – 4–11 Galway
Attendance: 4,000
Roscommon 1–11 – 2–7 Galway
Attendance: 19,876
Referee: A. Carroll (Clare)

Leinster Senior Football Championship

Wexford 2–11 – 0–11 Wicklow
Referee: F. Long (Carlow)
Kildare 3–8 – 3–4 Kilkenny
Longford 3–10 – 0–8 Westmeath
Carlow 3-11– 3–9 Laois
Longford 0–8 – 1–6 Meath
Kildare 4–7 – 2–5 Louth
Dublin 4–7 – 0–7 Wexford
Offaly 0–17 – 2–6 Carlow
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: J Kavanagh
Offaly 3–9 – 0–6 Kildare
Referee: E Moules (Wicklow)
Dublin 4–14 – 1–7 Meath
Attendance: 23,271
Offaly 1–13 – 1–8 Dublin
Attendance: 26,826
Referee: J Kavanagh

Munster Senior Football Championship

Waterford 1–7 – 3–13 Tipperary
Referee: D. O'Donovan (C)
Cork 2–9 – 2–4 Tipperary
Referee: L. Crotty (W)
Kerry 1–13 – 1–0 Clare
Kerry 0–10 – 1–7 Cork
Kerry 2–13 – 1–4 Cork

Ulster Senior Football Championship

Derry 2–10 – 0–4 Donegal
Armagh 2–7 – 0–8 Cavan
Monaghan 1–10 – 0–6 Antrim
Attendance: 4,000
Down 0–12 – 0–7 Fermanagh
Derry 1–9 – 0–10 Tyrone
Attendance: 4,000
Armagh 5–9 – 0–5 Monaghan
Attendance: 6,000
Down 2–12 – 1–10 Derry
Attendance: 18,000
Down 2–10 – 1–10 Armagh
Attendance: 38,500

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

Down 1–12 – 0–9 Kerry
Attendance: 64,112
Offaly 3–6 – 0–6 Roscommon
Attendance: 71,573
Referee: L Maguire (Cavan)
Down 3–6 – 2–8 Offaly
Attendance: 90,556
Referee: L Maguire (Cavan)

Championship statistics

Scorers

Overall
Rank Player County Tally Total Matches Average


Single game
Rank Player County Tally Total Opposition


Miscellaneous

  • The Kildare-Kilkenny game was the first Leinster championship game Kilkenny played since 1943 as they decided to rejoin it.
  • The Leinster final between Offaly vs Dublin was the last Leinster final to date not played at Croke Park, Dublin when it was held at O'Moore Park, Portlaoise with the attendance of 26,826.
  • The All Ireland semi-final Offaly vs Roscommon was their first championship meeting.
  • Offaly reach their first All Ireland final but were beaten narrowly by Down won it for the second year in a row also were the last team to win a triple of Ulster titles until Armagh (2004–2006).

References

  1. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 21 March 2012. Retrieved 23 July 2011.
  2. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 23 July 2011.
  3. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 28 September 2011.
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