1956 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

1956 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning team Galway (4th win)
Captain Jack Mangan
Provincial Champions
Munster Cork
Leinster Kildare
Ulster Tyrone
Connacht Galway
Championship statistics
Top Scorer Frank Stockwell
Player of the Year Seán Purcell
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The 1956 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was played from May to October, 1956. Galway were the winners, defeating Cork in the final.

Results

Connacht Senior Football Championship

Galway 5-13 – 2-5 Mayo
Attendance: 12,000
Sligo 3-5 – 0-11 Leitrim
Galway 1-9 – 0-2 Roscommon
Galway 3-12 – 1-5 Sligo
Attendance: 13,000

Leinster Senior Football Championship

Longford 3-7 – 1-6 Laois
Wicklow 4-12 – 1-4 Carlow
Wexford 2-11 – 1-5 Westmeath
Kildare 1-9 – 0-9 Louth
Dublin 0-11 – 0-5 Wicklow
Offaly 1-14 – 1-5 Meath
Referee: E Moulds (Wicklow)
Kildare 1-12 – 2-6 Longford
Wexford 2-7 – 0-7 Dublin
Kildare 1-8 – 0-7 Offaly
Attendance: 22700
Referee: W Goodison
Kildare 2-11 – 1-8 Wexford

Munster Senior Football Championship

Tipperary 2-4 – 0-7 Clare
Referee: G. Cremins (K)
Cork 0-12 – 0-1 Waterford
Kerry 3-7 – 3-2 Tipperary
Referee: P. O'Grady ( C )
Cork 2-2 – 2-2 Kerry
Cork 1-8 – 1-7 Kerry

Ulster Senior Football Championship

Tyrone 3-7 – 2-4 Derry
Donegal 1-8 – 2-8 Monaghan
Attendance: 4,500
Cavan 3-15 – 2-4 Antrim
Armagh 2-5 – 0-6 Down
Tyrone 2-9 – 0-7 Monaghan
Attendance: 9,000
Cavan 1-9 – 1-5 Armagh
Tyrone 3-5 – 0-4 Cavan

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

Cork 0-9 - 0-5 Kildare
Galway 0-8 - 0-6 Tyrone
Galway 2-13 - 3-7 Cork
Attendance: 70,772
Referee: Peter McDermott (Meath)

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

  • Kildare win their first Leinster title since 1935 and was their last until 1998.
  • Tyrone win their first Ulster title.
  • The All Ireland semi-final between Galway and Tyrone was their first meeting between the 2 teams.
  • The All Ireland final between Galway and Cork gave Galway won their 4th All Ireland title on the day after a 3 in a row of defeats between (1940-1942).
  • An outbreak of polio in Cork and the fear of a spread of the disease to Dublin due to an influx of Cork supporters lead to the postponement of the All-Ireland final until 7 October 1956.
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