1998–99 National Football League (Ireland)

1998–99 National Football League
League details
Dates 1 November 1998 – 9 May 1999
Teams 33
League champions
Winners Cork (5th win)
Captain Philip Clifford
Manager Larry Tompkins
League runners-up
Runners-up Dublin
Captain Dessie Farrell
Manager Tommy Carr
Other division winners
Division 2A Kerry
Division 2B Sligo

The 1998–99 National Football League, known for sponsorship reasons as the Church & General National Football League, was the 68th staging of the National Football League (NFL), an annual Gaelic football tournament for the Gaelic Athletic Association county teams of Ireland.

Cork beat Dublin in the final.[1][2][3] The tournament introduced yellow and red cards to Gaelic football for the first time. It also had an experimental rule forbidding goalkeepers from handpassing the ball — this latter rule was not continued.[4]

Format

The top 16 teams are drawn into sections 1A and 1B. The other 17 teams are drawn into sections 2A and 2B. Each team plays all the other teams in its section once: either home or away. Teams earn 2 points for a win and 1 for a draw.

Titles

Teams in both divisions competed for the National Football League title.

Knockout stage qualifiers

Eight teams qualify for the NFL quarter-finals:

  • The top three teams in each of sections 1A and 1B
  • The first-placed teams in each of sections 2A and 2B[5]

Promotion and Relegation

  • Division One (A): bottom 2 teams demoted to Division Two
  • Division One (B): bottom 2 teams demoted to Division Two
  • Division Two (A): top 2 teams promoted to Division One.
  • Division Two (B): top 2 teams promoted to Division One.

Group stage

Division One

Final standings

Group A
Team Pld W D L F A Aver Pts Notes
Armagh 751111-686-671.18811Advance to Knockout stage
Cork 74127-654-641.1329
Dublin 73224-904-691.2598
Tyrone 73223-674-601.0568
Galway 73138-785-761.1217
Donegal 73044-703-641.1236
Offaly 72235-595-620.9616Relegated to Division Two of the 1999–2000 NFL
Leitrim 70166-4717-820.4891
Group B
Team Pld W D L F A Aver Pts Notes
Meath 74128-561-411.8189Advance to Knockout stage
Kildare 74123-612-581.0949
Derry 73224-623-511.2338
Mayo 73228-589-461.1238
Clare 73136-512-551.1317
Down 73135-556-670.8247
Monaghan 73131-576-630.7417Relegated to Division Two of the 1999–2000 NFL
Laois 70162-486-670.5931

[6]

Division two

Final standings

Group A
Team Pld W D L F A Aver Pts Notes
Kerry 870110-973-542.01614Advance to Knockout stage; Promoted to Division One of the 1999–2000 NFL
Roscommon 870112-852-581.89114Promoted to Division One of the 1999–2000 NFL
Westmeath 860215-895-641.69612
Wicklow 86027-842-641.50012
Louth 84047-826-561.3928
Antrim 82067-799-860.8854
Limerick 82066-6010-830.6904
London 82062-6410-790.6424
Kilkenny 80082-2421-1200.1640
Group B
Team Pld W D L F A Aver Pts Notes
Sligo 75117-714-551.37311Advance to Knockout stage; Promoted to Division One of the 1999–2000 NFL
Fermanagh 74217-712-621.35310Promoted to Division One of the 1999–2000 NFL
Carlow 75027-677-591.10010
Wexford 74038-725-681.1578
Cavan 74037-779-701.0108
Longford 73048-719-800.8886
Tipperary 71157-626-680.9653
Waterford 70074-5113-800.5290

Knockout stage

Quarter-finals

Armagh 0-6 – 0-5 Sligo
Meath 0-14 – 0-10 Kerry
Cork 3-14 – 1-6 Derry
Dublin 1-17 – 2-8 Kildare

Semi-finals

Cork 0-6 – 0-3 Meath
Dublin 0-11 – 0-11 Armagh
Dublin 1-14 – 0-12 Armagh

Finals

Cork 0-12 – 1-7 Dublin
Attendance: 10,000[7]
Referee: Brian White (Wexford)[8]

References

  1. ↑ GAA Final Teams Archived 2015-07-17 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ↑ GAA Archive 1999
  3. ↑ Photos from 1998-99 NFL final
  4. ↑ GAA's previous experimental rules - Irish Independent
  5. ↑ Gaelic Games website
  6. ↑ http://homepage.eircom.net/~gaelicgames/foot/l98-9/tables.html
  7. ↑ "For The Record, A History of the National Football and Hurling League Finals", Tom Morrison, Collins Press, 2002, ISBN 9781903464151
  8. ↑ "For The Record, A History of the National Football and Hurling League Finals", Tom Morrison, Collins Press, 2002, ISBN 9781903464151
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