1946 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

1946 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning team Kerry (16th win)
Provincial Champions
Munster Kerry
Leinster Laois
Ulster Antrim
Connacht Roscommon
Championship statistics
← 1945
1947 →

The 1946 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 60th staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition.

Kerry won their sixteenth title, moving ahead of Dublin in the all-time standings, a position which they have never lost since.[1][2][3]

Results

Connacht Senior Football Championship

Sligo 6-10 – 0-6 Leitrim
Roscommon 0-7 – 0-4 Galway
St. Coman's Park, Roscommon
Mayo 2-9 – 2-6 Sligo
Roscommon 1-4 – 0-6 Mayo

Leinster Senior Football Championship

Meath 2-11 – 0-8 Longford
Louth 2-7 – 0-7 Wicklow
Dublin 0-5 – 1-3 Laois
Offaly 2-6 – 0-4 Westmeath
Referee: P Russell
Kildare 2-3 – 2-3 Carlow
Kildare 3-5 – 0-7 Carlow
Laois 1-7 – 1-5 Offaly
Attendance: 9,000
Referee: Kennedy
Louth 1-6 – 0-6 Meath
Kildare 3-3 – 0-10 Wexford
Laois 1-9 – 0-10 Louth
Laois 0-11 – 1-6 Kildare
Attendance: 27,353

Munster Senior Football Championship

Kerry 1-8 – 1-4 Cork
Waterford 2-4 – 1-5 Tipperary
Referee: D. O'Leary ( C )
Kerry 1-6 – 0-7 Clare
Kerry 2-16 – 2-1 Waterford

Ulster Senior Football Championship

Derry 4-6 – 0-4 Fermanagh
Cavan 8-13 – 2-3 Tyrone
Donegal 4-5 – 1-9 Monaghan
Armagh 0-13 – 0-4 Down
Antrim 1-11 – 0-10 Derry
Cavan 5-8 – 0-3 Donegal
Antrim 1-12 – 0-6 Armagh
Antrim 2-8 – 1-7 Cavan
Attendance: 15,000

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

Kerry 2-7 – 0-10 Antrim
Attendance: 30,051
Roscommon 3-5 – 2-6 Laois
Attendance: 51,275
Kerry 2-4 – 1-7 Roscommon
Attendance: 75,771
Kerry 2-8 – 0-10 Roscommon
Attendance: 65,661

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

  • Antrim won the Ulster title for the first time since 1913.
  • The All-Ireland final ends in a draw and goes to a replay for the first time since 1943 as Kerry win their 16th title there are now the county that has now won the most All Ireland finals.
  • Kerry goalkeeper Dan O'Keeffe becomes the first Gaelic Football player to win a 7th All-Ireland winners medal on the field of play, a record which stood until 1986.

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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