1958 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

1958 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning team Dublin (16th win)
Captain Kevin Heffernan
Provincial Champions
Munster Kerry
Leinster Dublin
Ulster Derry
Connacht Galway
Championship statistics
← 1957
1959 →

The 1958 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was won by Dublin, who beat Derry in the final. The championship, the premier competition in Gaelic football, is a series of games organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association and played during the summer and early autumn. A young Martin O'Neill was at the game with his mother, his older brother played in the final.

Results

Connacht Senior Football Championship

Mayo 3-10 – 1-6 Sligo
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Bill Jackson (Roscommon)
Leitrim 0-11 – 0-9 Roscommon
St. Coman's Park, Roscommon
Attendance: 10,000
Galway 2-9 – 0-6 Mayo
Attendance: 22,122
Referee: Mick Higgins (Cavan)
Galway 2-10 – 1-11 Leitrim
St. Coman's Park, Roscommon
Attendance: 12,000
Referee: J. Mulvey

Leinster Senior Football Championship

Meath 3-9 – 0-7 Longford
Offaly 4-3 – 1-5 Laois
Attendance: 10000
Referee: P McDermott (Meath)
Louth 2-9 – 3-4 Westmeath
Carlow 2-6 – 1-6 Wexford
Attendance: 6000
Referee: J. Dowling (Offaly)
Dublin 1-12 – 2-7 Meath
Offaly 1-11 – 1-6 Kildare
Attendance: 25000
Referee: P McDermott (Meath)
Dublin 3-9 – 2-7 Carlow
Louth 4-3 – 1-5 Offaly
Attendance: 26703
Referee: J Canavan
Dublin 1-11 – 1-6 Louth

Munster Senior Football Championship

Waterford 3-9 – 1-7 Clare
Kerry 1-6 – 0-7 Tipperary
Referee: C. Crowley (Waterford)
Cork 1-11 – 1-4 Waterford
Kerry 2-7 – 0-3 Cork

Ulster Senior Football Championship

Derry 0-8 – 0-5 Antrim
Cavan 0-7 – 0-7 Monaghan
Attendance: 8,500
Down 3-11 – 3-5 Donegal
Tyrone 1-9 – 0-10 Armagh
Cavan 1-9 – 1-5 Monaghan
Attendance: 10,000

An objection was made and a replay ordered

Cavan 0-14 – 1-6 Monaghan
Down 1-9 – 0-2 Tyrone
Attendance: 10,000
Derry 4-7 – 3-6 Cavan
Attendance: 6,000
Derry 1-11 – 2-4 Down
Attendance: 22,000

All-Ireland series

Dublin 2-7 – 1-9 Galway
Derry 2-6 – 2-5 Kerry
Dublin 2-12 – 1-9 Derry
Attendance: 73,371
Referee: Simon Deignan (Cavan)

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

  • Derry play in their first All Ireland final also win their first Ulster championship final but lose to Dublin.
  • There were a number of first-time championship meetings: The Derry/Kerry All Ireland semi-final was their very first championship meeting and the All Ireland final was the first championship meeting of Dublin/Derry.
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