1965 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

1965 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning team	Galway (6th win)
Captain	Enda Colleran
Manager	John "Tull" Dunne. (St Grellan's, Ballinasloe)
Provincial Champions
Munster	Kerry
Leinster	Dublin
Ulster	Down
Connacht	Galway
Championship statistics
No. matches played	30
Player of the Year	Martin Newell (Galway)
	← 1964 1966 →

The 1965 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 79th staging of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county Gaelic football tournament. The championship began on 2 May 1965 and ended on 26 September 1965.

Limerick rejoin the Munster football championship for the first time since 1952.

The decider was a repeat of the 1964 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, between Galway and Kerry. There was no change in the outcome as Galway defeated Kerry again by 0-12 to 0-09 It was Galways second title in succession, on their way to "Three In A Row".

Provincial Championships format changes

Connacht Championship format change

The Connacht championship instead of a normal systems has 2 Quarter-finals and 1 Semi-final instead of the usual 1 Quarter-final and 2 Semi-finals for just 1 year. All Ireland champions Galway were received as a bye to the Connacht final meaning that Mayo, Roscommon, Sligo and Leitrim would be in separate Quarter-finals, The winners of the 2 games would play in a lone Semi-final while the Semi-final the winner would play Galway.

Leinster Championship format change

The Leinster championship dropped the Second Round after 1 year in 1965. The Preliminary Round winners went on to the Quarter-finals.

Results

Connacht Senior Football Championship

Quarter-finals

6 June 1965 Quarter-final	Mayo	2-15 – 1-6	Roscommon	St. Coman's Park, Roscommon

27 June 1965 Quarter-final	Sligo	4-12 – 0-6	Leitrim	Páirc Seán Mac Diarmada, Carrick-on-Shannon

Semi-final

4 July 1965 Semi-final	Sligo	2-11 – 2-8	Mayo	Fr. O'Hara Park, Charlestown

Final

1 August 1965 Final	Galway	1-12 – 2-6	Sligo	Tuam Stadium, Tuam

Leinster Senior Football Championship

Preliminary round

2 May 1965 Preliminary round	Kildare	3-14 – 1-4	Wicklow	Dr. Cullen Park, Carlow
	P.Dunny, J.McKenna 1-3, N.Madigan 1-2, J.Donoghue 0-2, M.Coughlan, J.Loughlin, P.Mangan, B.Judge 0-1, P.Dunny, J.McKenna 1-3, N.Madigan 1-2, J.Donoghue 0-2, M.Coughlan, J.Loughlin, P.Mangan, B.Judge 0-1

2 May 1965 Preliminary round	Offaly	0-5 – 1-5	Longford	Cusack Park, Mullingar
				Referee: P Hughes (Louth)

9 May 1965 Preliminary round	Westmeath	2-11 – 0-9	Louth	Páirc Tailteann, Navan

Quarter-finals

23 May 1965 Quarter-final	Kildare	4-10 – 2-9	Carlow	Dr. Cullen Park, Carlow
	P.Dunny 1-3, N.Madigan, J.Loughlin 1-2, S.Donoghue 0-2, J.McKenna 0-1

30 May 1965 Quarter-final	Dublin	2-11 – 1-7	Wexford	Dr. Cullen Park, Carlow

6 June 1965 Quarter-final	Longford	1-9 – 0-8	Laois	Cusack Park, Mullingar

13 June 1965 Quarter-final	Meath	1-12 – 1-9	Westmeath	Croke Park, Dublin

Semi-finals

20 June 1965 Semi-final	Dublin	1-11 – 0-5	Kildare	O'Connor Park, Tullamore
			J.McKenna, P.Dunny, B.Judge, N.Madigan, K.Kelly 0-1

4 July 1965 Semi-final	Longford	2-8 – 1-7	Meath	Croke Park, Dublin

Final

25 July 1965 Final	Dublin	3-6 – 1-9	Longford	Croke Park, Dublin

Munster Senior Football Championship

Quarter-finals

2 May 1965 Quarter-final	Tipperary	0-4 – 2-7	Clare	Gaelic Grounds, Limerick
				Referee: S. Garvey (Kerry)

16 May 1965 Quarter-final	Limerick	4-10 – 0-6	Waterford	Seán Treacy Park, Tipperary

Semi-finals

13 June 1965 Semi-final	Kerry	2-10 – 1-6	Clare	Gaelic Grounds, Limerick
	M. Fleming 0-1, B. O'Callaghan 1-3, M. O'Connell 0-1, D. Geaney 0-1, J.J. Barrett 1-0, M. O'Dwyer 0-4.

20 June 1965 Semi-final	Limerick	2-5 – 0-6	Cork	Fitzgerald Stadium, Killarney

Final

18 July 1965 Final	Kerry	2-16 – 2-7	Limerick	Gaelic Grounds, Limerick
	M. Fleming 0-1, B. O'Callaghan 1-1 M. O'Connell 0-5, V. Lucey 0-6, J.J. Barrett 1-2, M. O'Dwyer 0-1.

Ulster Senior Football Championship

Preliminary round

30 May 1965 Preliminary round	Antrim	2-9 – 2-6	Tyrone	Dean McGlinchey Park, Ballinascreen

Quarter-finals

6 June 1965 Quarter-final	Monaghan	2-12 – 1-5	Fermanagh	St. Molise Park, Irvinestown

13 June 1965 Quarter-final	Down	3-13 – 1-6	Tyrone	Pairc Esler, Newry

20 June 1965 Quarter-final	Armagh	3-7 – 1-9	Monaghan	The Playing Fields, Lurgan

20 June 1965 Quarter-final	Cavan	1-8 – 1-8	Donegal	MacCumhail Park, Ballybofey

4 July 1965 Quarter-final, first replay	Cavan	0-14 – 2-8 (aet)	Donegal	Breffni Park, Cavan

11 July 1965 Quarter-final, second replay	Cavan	0-9 – 0-8	Donegal	Breffni Park, Cavan

Semi-finals

7 July 1965 Semi-final	Down	0-10 – 1-4	Antrim	Pairc Esler, Newry

14 July 1965 Semi-final	Cavan	1-10 – 0-4	Armagh	St. Tiernach's Park, Clones

Final

1 August 1965 Final	Down	1-10 – 1-8	Cavan	St. Tiernach's Park, Clones

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

Semi-finals

8 August 1965 Semi-final	Kerry	4-8 – 2-6	Dublin	Croke Park, Dublin
	D. O'Sullivan 0-1, M. O'Connell 0-1, Denis O'Sullivan 0-1, D. O'Shea 1-1, J.J. Barrett 0-1, B. O'Callaghan 1-3, M. O'Dwyer 2-0.

22 August 1965 Semi-final	Galway	0-10 – 0-7	Down	Croke Park, Dublin

Final

26 September 1965 Final	Galway	0-12 – 0-9	Kerry	Croke Park, Dublin
	C Dunne 0-4, S Leydon 0-3, J Keenan 0-2, J Donnellan 0-2, M Garrett 0-1.		B O'Callaghan 0-6, M O'Connell 0-2, M O'Dwyer 0-1.	Attendance: 77,735 Referee: M Loftus (Mayo)

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

On 16 May 1965, Seán Treacy Park, Tipperary hosted its first match for 23 years the Munster Quarter-final meeting between Limerick vs Waterford their first meeting between them in 31 years as Limerick get into back in the Munster football championship for the first time since 1952 after recording wins over Waterford and Cork but lost Munster final to Kerry who made an historic 8th Munster title in a row.
Longford reach their first Leinster final but are beaten by Dublin.
Galway win the All Ireland title for 2 in a row another 3 in a row of Connacht titles.

Top scorers

Overall

Rank	Player	County	Tally	Total	Matches	Average
1	Martin Newell	Galway	?	?	3	?

Single game

Rank	Player	County	Tally	Total	Opposition
1

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