1939 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

1939 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning team Kerry (13th win)
Provincial Champions
Munster Kerry
Leinster Meath
Ulster Cavan
Connacht Mayo
Championship statistics
← 1938
1940 →

The 1939 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 53rd staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Kerry were the winners.[1][2][3]

Format

Munster Championship format change

In 1939 Kerry were given a bye to the Munster final, Preliminary Round was just a lone match between Cork vs Waterford, The winners of the game played in the Quarter finals along with Tipperary, Limerick & Clare the winners of the game played in a lone Semi final. The format was previously used in 1933 & again in 1941.

All Ireland Semi Finals system

The All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was run on a provincial basis as usual in every 3rd year in rotation, with the four winners from Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster advancing to the All-Ireland semi-finals. The draw for these games was as follows:

  • Munster V. Connacht
  • Ulster V. Leinster

Results

Connacht Championship

Mayo 2-10 – 0-2 Sligo
Attendance: 4,000
Mayo 2-6 – 0-3 Galway
St. Coman's Park, Roscommon
Attendance: 20,000

Leinster Championship

Wicklow 1-3 – 2-8 Carlow
Longford 3-4 – 2-5 Carlow
Louth 3-4 – 1-6 Dublin
Meath 1-9 – 1-7 Laois
Kildare 2-11 – 1-1 Offaly
Referee: D Hamilton
Wexford 0-6 – 0-4 Longford
Wexford 1-7 – 0-7 Louth
Meath 2-10 – 2-8 Kildare
Attendance: 20,000
Meath 2-7 – 2-3 Wexford

Munster Championship

Cork 0-8 – 0-7 Waterford
Clare 1-8 – 2-5 Limerick
Tipperary 1-9 – 2-2 Cork
Referee: S. Moynihan (K)
Clare 2-14 – 0-3 Limerick
Attendance: 2,000
Tipperary 4-5 – 1-6 Clare
Referee: S. Moynihan (K)
Kerry 2-11 – 0-4 Tipperary
Referee: D. Goode (W)

Ulster Championship

Cavan 4-11 – 1-2 Tyrone
Attendance: 3,000
Down 1-6 – 1-5 Antrim
Donegal 0-6 – 1-1 Down
Magheragallon
Monaghan 1-6 – 1-6 Armagh
Monaghan 0-2 – 1-6 Armagh
Cavan 5-12 – 0-4 Donegal
Attendance: 8,000
Cavan 2-6 – 2-4 Armagh
Cavan 2-3 – 1-4 Armagh

All-Ireland Championship

Kerry 0-4 – 0-4 Mayo
Meath 1-9 – 1-1 Cavan
Kerry 3-8 – 1-4 Mayo
Kerry 2-5 – 2-3 Meath
Attendance: 46,828

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

  • Meath win their second Leinster Title first since 1895.
  • Kerry are now one behind Dublin with All Ireland titles.
  • There were a number of first-time championship meetings; There were 2 first time championship meetings in the All Ireland Series 1st in the semi-final stage a first meeting between Meath vs Cavan while the 2nd was All Ireland final was the first championship meeting of Kerry vs Meath.

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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