All-Ireland Senior Football Championship records and statistics
This article contains records and statistics related to the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, which has run since 1887.
Most successful teams
By county
a. ^ London received a bye to the final in 5 seasons.
Counties
By decade
The most successful team of each decade, judged by number of All-Ireland titles, is as follows:[1]
- 1890s: 6 for Dublin (1891-92-94-97-98-99)
- 1900s: 5 for Dublin (1901-02-06-07-08)
- 1910s: 4 for Wexford (1915-16-17-18)
- 1920s: 3 each for Dublin (1921-22-23) and Kerry (1924-26-29)
- 1930s: 5 for Kerry (1930-31-32-37-39)
- 1940s: 3 for Kerry (1940-41-46)
- 1950s: 3 for Kerry (1953-55-59)
- 1960s: 3 each for Down (1960-61-68) and Galway (1964-65-66)
- 1970s: 4 for Kerry (1970-75-78-79)
- 1980s: 5 for Kerry (1980-81-84-85-86)
- 1990s: 2 each for Down (1991-94) and Meath (1996–99)
- 2000s: 5 for Kerry (2000-04-06-07-09)
- 2010s: 6 for Dublin (2011-13-15-16-17-18)
Consecutive Wins
Kerry, Wexford and Dublin are the only inter county football teams to have won four consecutive all-Ireland titles in a row.
Double
- Dublin (1891, 1892)
- Dublin (1901, 1902)
- Kerry (1903, 1904)
- Kerry (1913, 1914)
- Kildare (1927, 1928)
- Roscommon (1943, 1944)
- Cavan (1947, 1948)
- Mayo (1950, 1951)
- Down (1960, 1961)
- Kerry (1969, 1970)
- Offaly (1971, 1972)
- Dublin (1976, 1977)
- Meath (1987, 1988)
- Cork (1989, 1990)
- Kerry (2006, 2007)
Treble
- Dublin (1897, 1898, 1899)
- Dublin (1906, 1907, 1908)
- Dublin (1921, 1922, 1923)
- Kerry (1939, 1940, 1941)
- Galway (1964, 1965, 1966)
- Kerry (1984, 1985, 1986)
Quadruple
- Wexford (1915, 1916, 1917, 1918)
- Kerry (1929, 1930, 1931, 1932)
- Kerry (1978, 1979, 1980, 1981)
- Dublin (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018)
By semi-final appearances
- As of 5 August 2018
Team | No. of Appearances | First semi-final | Latest semi-final |
---|---|---|---|
Kerry | 81 | 1903 | 2017 |
Dublin | 51 | 1891 | 2018 |
Mayo | 48 | 1901 | 2017 |
Galway | 42 | 1890 | 2018 |
Cavan | 39 | 1891 | 1997 |
Cork | 36 | 1890 | 2012 |
Meath | 21 | 1939 | 2009 |
Roscommon | 20 | 1892 | 1991 |
Tyrone | 16 | 1956 | 2018 |
Kildare | 14 | 1903 | 2010 |
Monaghan | 13 | 1907 | 2018 |
Down | 13 | 1959 | 2010 |
Armagh | 11 | 1890 | 2005 |
Offaly | 10 | 1960 | 1997 |
Donegal | 9 | 1972 | 2014 |
Tipperary | 9 | 1887 | 2016 |
Wexford | 9 | 1890 | 2008 |
Antrim | 9 | 1900 | 1951 |
Derry | 9 | 1958 | 2004 |
Louth | 8 | 1909 | 1957 |
Laois | 4 | 1936 | 1946 |
Sligo | 3 | 1922 | 1975 |
London | 3 | 1906 | 1910 |
Leitrim | 2 | 1927 | 1994 |
Clare | 2 | 1917 | 1992 |
Kilkenny | 2 | 1900 | 1911 |
Limerick | 1 | 1887 | 1887 |
Carlow | 1 | 1944 | 1944 |
Longford | 1 | 1968 | 1968 |
Fermanagh | 1 | 2004 | 2004 |
Waterford | 0 | ||
Westmeath | 0 | ||
Wicklow | 0 | ||
New York | 0 |
By province
Most successful provinces
- Cavan and Down are the Ulster teams with the most All-Ireland titles.
- Dublin are the Leinster team with the most All-Ireland titles.
- Galway are the Connacht team with the most All-Ireland titles.
- Kerry are the Munster team with the most All-Ireland titles.
# | Province | Total* | Winners | Losers | % Success Rate | Winners by county | Losers by county |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Munster | 91 | 50 | 41 | 54% | Kerry (37), Cork (7), Tipperary (4), Limerick (2) | Kerry (22), Cork (16), Clare (1), Tipperary (1), Waterford (1) |
2 | Leinster | 88 | 50 | 38 | 57% | Dublin (28), Meath (7), Wexford (5), Kildare (4), Offaly (3), Louth (3) | Dublin (13), Meath (9), Kildare (5), Wexford (3), Offaly (3), |
3 | Connacht | 41 | 14 | 27 | 34% | Galway (9), Mayo (3), Roscommon (2) | Galway (12), Mayo (12), Roscommon (3) |
4 | Ulster | 34 | 17 | 17 | 50% | Cavan (5), Down (5), Tyrone (3), Donegal (2), Armagh (1), Derry (1) | Cavan (6), Armagh (3), Tyrone (2), Antrim (2), Derry (1), Monaghan (1) Down (1), Donegal (1) |
- Total = Appearances in an All-Ireland Final
Provinces with highest number of different winning counties
The provinces providing the highest number of different winning counties are Leinster and Ulster, with six each. Dublin, Meath, Wexford, Kildare, Offaly and Louth from Leinster have won the title, while Cavan, Down, Tyrone, Donegal, Armagh and Derry are the successful Ulster sides. For Leinster's 12 counties, this represents a success rate of 50%, while Ulster's nine counties gives them a success rate of 67%. Four of Munster's six counties have won the title, giving an identical success rate to Ulster, while three of Connacht's five counties have been successful, a success rate of 60%.
Finals featuring two teams from the same province
There have only been three occasions has the All-Ireland Final been contested by two teams from the same province:
Least successful counties
There are eight counties that have never been represented in a Senior All-Ireland Final. These are Carlow, Fermanagh, Kilkenny, Leitrim, Sligo, Westmeath, Wicklow, and Longford. Three of these counties, Waterford, Westmeath and Wicklow, have never competed in a semi-final.
Kilkenny currently do not compete in the All-Ireland Championship, having won three Leinster Senior Football Championships in the past, with the county instead prominent in the sport of hurling. Carlow also compete in hurling and have won an All-Ireland Senior B Hurling Championship. Westmeath have enjoyed considerable success in hurling in recent years, winning a number of All-Ireland Senior B Hurling Championships and Christy Ring Cups, and their Gaelic football team won the 2004 Leinster Football Championship.
Fermanagh came their closest in 2004, reaching a semi-final replay having defeated 1999 Champions Meath, 2002 Munster Champions Cork, 2003 All-Ireland semi-finalists Donegal and 2002 Champions Armagh.[2] Wicklow's most notable recent achievement was winning the 2012 NFL Division 4 final.
Final records and statistics
Success rates
- 100%
- One county currently have a 100% record in their All-Ireland Final appearances.
- Historic 100% success rates (when a team won their first All-Ireland Final before losing a final at a later time) are:
- 0%
- On the opposite end of the scale, three counties have appeared in the All-Ireland Final on only one occasion. All three lost.
- Three counties have appeared in the final more than once and lost on each occasion:
- Laois (1889, 1936)
- Antrim (1911, 1912)
- London (1900, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1908)
- Note: In each of London's first four appearances in the Final, they have been the beneficiaries of byes to that stage. From the 1900 Championship to the 1903 Championship, the GAA ran the competition between teams based in Ireland first, with the winners of the 'Home Final' going on to play London in the 'Grand Final'. In 1908 London qualified for the Final by winning the semi-final.
Losing Counties
Biggest All-Ireland final winning margins
Semi final Winning Margins
Quarter final winning margins
- The five most one sided All-Ireland Quarter-Finals and their margins of victory:
Munster final winning margins
Leinster final winning margins
Connacht final winning margins
Ulster final winning margins
Longest gap between successive All-Ireland titles
Longest gap between All-Ireland final appearances
- Counties that waited more than two decades between appearances in the All-Ireland Final.
Disciplinary
In 1943, Joe Stafford of Cavan became the first player to be sent off in an All-Ireland Senior football final. Others to have been sent off since then include John Donnellan of Galway and the brothers Derry O'Shea and John 'Thorny' O'Shea of Kerry in 1965, Charlie Nelligan of Kerry in 1978, Páidí Ó Sé of Kerry in 1979, Brian Mullins, Kieran Duff, Ray Hazley of Dublin and Tomás Tierney of Galway in 1983, Gerry McEntee of Meath in the 1988 replay, Tony Davis of Cork in 1993, Charlie Redmond of Dublin in 1995, Liam McHale of Mayo and Colm Coyle of Meath in the 1996 replay, Nigel Nestor of Meath in 2001, Diarmuid Marsden of Armagh in 2003, John Small of Dublin and Donal Vaughan of Mayo in 2017, and John Small of Dublin again in 2018.
Six players have received black cards during All-Ireland finals: Johnny Buckley and Aidan O'Mahony, both of Kerry, in the 2014 and 2015 finals, respectively; three players in the 2016 replay:Jonny Cooper of Dublin and Rob Hennelly and Lee Keegan both of Mayo and Ciaran Kilkenny of Dublin in the 2017 final.
Galway holds the record of losing a final to a team containing the least number of players, they were beaten by a Dublin team which had been reduced to just 12 players in the All Ireland Final of 1983.
Fastest goal
Garry McMahon's goal after 35 seconds of the 1962 Final is the fastest in final history.[3]
- Other early goals include:
- 1993 - Joe Kavanagh (5 minutes)
- 2004 - Alan Dillon (4 minutes)
- 2005 - Dara Ó Cinnéide (6 minutes)
- 2012 - Michael Murphy (3 minutes)
- 2017 - Con O'Callaghan (1 minute)
- 2014 - Paul Geaney (49 seconds)
- 1980 - John O'Connor (35 seconds)
Players
All-time top scorers
- As of 3 September 2018
Rank | Player | Team | Scores | Tally | Games | Era | Average |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Colm Cooper | Kerry | 23-283 | 352 | 85 games | 2002-2017 | 4.1 |
2 | Cillian O'Connor | Mayo | 23-272 | 341 | 48 games | 2011- | 7.1 |
3 | Mikey Sheehy | Kerry | 29-205 | 292 | 49 games | 1973-1988 | 6.0 |
4 | John Doyle | Kildare | 8-260 | 284 | 67 games | 1999-2014 | 4.2 |
5 | Padraig Joyce | Galway | 12-229 | 265 | 66 games | 1997-2012 | 4.0 |
6 | Bernard Brogan | Dublin | 21-196 | 259 | 58 games | 2006- | 4.5 |
7 | Paddy Bradley | Derry | 17-202 | 253 | 44 games | 1999-2012 | 5.8 |
8 | Steven McDonnell | Armagh | 18-197 | 251 | 67 games | 1999-2011 | 3.7 |
9 | Maurice Fitzgerald | Kerry | 12-205 | 241 | 45 games | 1988-2001 | 5.4 |
10 | Brian Stafford | Meath | 9-206 | 233 | 41 games | 1986-1995 | 5.7 |
11 | Oisin McConville | Armagh | 11-197 | 230 | 52 games | 1994-2008 | 4.4 |
12 | Jimmy Keaveney | Dublin | 15-182 | 227 | 42 games | 1964-1980 | 5.4 |
13 | Peter Canavan | Tyrone | 9-192 | 219 | 58 games | 1989-2005 | 3.8 |
14 | Conor McManus | Monaghan | 7-204 | 225 | 50 games | 2005- | 4.5 |
15 | Sean Cavanagh | Tyrone | 9-181 | 208 | 89 games | 2002-2017 | 2.3 |
16 | Colin Corkery | Cork | 5-182 | 197 | 32 games | 1993-2004 | 6.2 |
17 | Ross Munnelly | Laois | 6-168 | 186 | 70 games | 2003- | 2.7 |
18 | Dean Rock | Dublin | 8-173 | 197 | 36 games | 2013- | 5.4 |
19 | Dara O'Cinneide | Kerry | 11-149 | 182 | 54 games | 1995-2005 | 3.4 |
20 | Matt Connor | Offaly | 13-142 | 181 | 26 games | 1978-1984 | 7.0 |
21 | Pat Spillane | Kerry | 19-123 | 180 | 56 games | 1974-1991 | 3.2 |
All-time appearances
- As of 3 September 2018
Rank | Player | Team | Appearances | Year |
1 | Stephen Cluxton | Dublin | 97 | 2001- |
2 | Sean Cavanagh | Tyrone | 89 | 2002-2017 |
3 | Marc Ó Sé | Kerry | 88 | 2002-2015 |
4 | Tomás Ó Sé | Kerry | 88 | 1998-2013 |
5 | Colm Cooper | Kerry | 85 | 2002-2016 |
6 | Darragh Ó Sé | Kerry | 81 | 1997-2010 |
7 | Tom O'Sullivan | Kerry | 76 | 2000-2011 |
8 | Conor Gormley | Tyrone | 75 | 2001-2014 |
8 | Andy Moran | Mayo | 75 | 2004- |
10 | Brian Dooher | Tyrone | 73 | 1995-2011 |
11 | Ross Munnelly | Laois | 70 | 2003- |
11 | John O'Leary | Dublin | 70 | 1980-1997 |
11 | Declan O'Sullivan | Kerry | 70 | 2003-14 |
11 | Aidan O'Mahony | Kerry | 70 | 2004-17 |
Team results table
This section represents in colour-coded tabular format the results of GAA county teams in the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship since 2001.
Prior to 2001, counties played in separate provincial championships, with only four provincial champions coming together in the All-Ireland semi-finals, and it is difficult to directly compare results across counties. Since 2001, beaten teams from the provincial championships play together in the All-Ireland qualifier series.
However, it must be remembered that counties from the smaller provinces (Connacht with seven county teams and Munster with six) have a slight advantage over those from the larger provinces (Leinster with eleven county teams and Ulster with nine) — they may receive a bye to the provincial semi-final and thus enter the second round of the qualifiers without winning a game, while counties from the larger provinces have to defeat one or even two opponents to reach the provincial semi-final.
Legend
- Current
- Ch — All-Ireland champions
- RU — Runners-up (2nd place)
- SF — All-Ireland semi-finals (3rd–4th place)
- S8 — All-Ireland "Super 8" quarter-final groups (5th–8th place)
- q4 — All-Ireland qualifiers, round 4 (9th–12th place)
- q3 — All-Ireland qualifiers, round 3 (13th–16th place)
- q2 — All-Ireland qualifiers, round 2 (17th–24th place)
- q1 — All-Ireland qualifiers, round 1 (25th–32nd place)
- ♦ — provincial champions
- Former
Quarter-finals were played as single matches between 2001 and 2017.
- QF — All-Ireland quarter-finals (5th–8th place)
In 2007 and 2008, teams from Division 4 of the National Football League did not get to play in the qualifiers, instead going straight into the Tommy Murphy Cup, a secondary competition. In those years, there were only three rounds of qualifiers.
- qr3 — All-Ireland qualifiers, round 3 (9th–12th place)
- qr2 — All-Ireland qualifiers, round 2 (13th–16th place)
- qr1 — All-Ireland qualifiers, round 1 (17th–24th place)
- TM1 — Tommy Murphy Cup winners (25th place)
- TM2 — Tommy Murphy Cup finalists (26th place)
- TMsf — Tommy Murphy Cup semi-finalists (27th–28th place)
- TMqf — Tommy Murphy Cup quarter-finalists (29th–32nd place)
Table
County | Pr. | ′01 | ′02 | ′03 | ′04 | ′05 | ′06 | ′07 | ′08 | ′09 | ′10 | ′11 | ′12 | ′13 | ′14 | ′15 | ′16 | ′17 | ′18 |
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C | Ch | QF♦ | QF♦ | q3 | QF♦ | q4 | qr3 | QF♦ | q4 | q2 | q2 | q2 | q4 | QF | q4 | QF♦ | QF | SF♦ | |
C | q1 | q2 | q2 | q2 | q2 | q2 | qr1 | TMsf | q1 | q2 | q2 | q3 | q2 | q1 | q1 | q2 | q2 | q3 | |
C | q1 | q1 | q1 | q1 | q1 | q1 | TMqf | TMsf | q1 | q1 | q2 | q1 | q4 | q1 | q1 | q1 | q1 | q1 | |
C | q4 | QF | q4 | RU♦ | QF | RU♦ | qr2 | qr3 | QF♦ | q1 | SF♦ | RU♦ | RU♦ | SF♦ | SF♦ | RU | RU | q3 | |
C | QF♦ | q2 | QF | q4 | q2 | q2 | qr1 | qr1 | q3 | QF♦ | q4 | q2 | q2 | q3 | q3 | q4 | QF♦ | S8 | |
C | q4 | QF | q2 | q1 | q4 | q3 | QF♦ | TMqf | q3 | q4 | q1 | q4 | q1 | q4 | q4 | q3 | q2 | q2 | |
L | q2 | q1 | q2 | q1 | q2 | q1 | TMqf | TMqf | q1 | q1 | q2 | q1 | q1 | q2 | q1 | q2 | q3 | q2 | |
L | QF | SF♦ | q3 | QF | QF♦ | SF♦ | SF♦ | QF♦ | QF♦ | SF | Ch♦ | SF♦ | Ch♦ | SF♦ | Ch♦ | Ch♦ | Ch♦ | Ch♦ | |
L | q3 | q4 | q4 | q1 | q2 | q2 | qr2 | QF | QF | SF | QF | QF | q3 | q4 | QF | q3 | q4 | S8 | |
L | q3 | q3 | QF♦ | q4 | QF | QF | qr3 | qr2 | q2 | q1 | q2 | QF | q4 | q3 | q1 | q2 | q2 | q4 | |
L | q1 | q2 | q1 | q3 | q1 | q4 | qr1 | qr1 | q2 | q1 | q2 | q2 | q2 | q2 | q3 | q3 | q2 | q2 | |
L | q3 | q2 | q1 | q2 | q3 | q1 | qr3 | qr1 | q1 | q4 | q1 | q1 | q2 | q1 | q2 | q1 | q1 | q2 | |
L | RU♦ | q4 | q3 | q2 | q3 | q3 | SF | qr1 | SF | QF♦ | q3 | q4 | q4 | q4 | q2 | q2 | q3 | q1 | |
L | q2 | q2 | q3 | q2 | q1 | q4 | TMqf | qr1 | q1 | q3 | q2 | q1 | q1 | q1 | q2 | q2 | q1 | q2 | |
L | QF | q2 | q1 | QF♦ | q2 | QF | qr2 | qr2 | q2 | q2 | q1 | q2 | q1 | q1 | q4 | q4 | q2 | q1 | |
L | q1 | q1 | q1 | q3 | q2 | q3 | qr1 | SF | q2 | q3 | q4 | q2 | q3 | q2 | q2 | q1 | q2 | q1 | |
L | q2 | q2 | q1 | q1 | q1 | q1 | TM1 | TM2 | q4 | q1 | q2 | q2 | q1 | q2 | q1 | q1 | q1 | q1 | |
M | q2 | q2 | q2 | q2 | q3 | q2 | TMsf | TMqf | q2 | q1 | q1 | q4 | q2 | q3 | q2 | QF | q3 | q3 | |
M | q4 | SF♦ | q1 | q3 | SF | SF♦ | RU | SF♦ | RU♦ | Ch | QF | SF♦ | QF | QF | q4 | q4 | q4 | q4 | |
M | SF♦ | RU | SF♦ | Ch♦ | RU♦ | Ch | Ch♦ | RU | Ch | QF♦ | RU♦ | QF | SF♦ | Ch♦ | RU♦ | SF♦ | SF♦ | S8♦ | |
M | q2 | q3 | q4 | q4 | q3 | q2 | qr1 | qr2 | q4 | q4 | QF | q3 | q1 | q3 | q1 | q2 | q1 | q1 | |
M | q1 | q4 | q3 | q1 | q1 | q2 | TMqf | qr1 | q2 | q2 | q1 | q4 | q1 | q4 | q3 | SF | q3 | q2 | |
M | q1 | q1 | q1 | q2 | q1 | q1 | TMsf | TMqf | q1 | q2 | q3 | q1 | q2 | q1 | q1 | q1 | q1 | q2 | |
U | q2 | q1 | q2 | q1 | q1 | q1 | TM2 | TM1 | q4 | q1 | q3 | q3 | q1 | q2 | q2 | q1 | q1 | q1 | |
U | q3 | Ch♦ | RU | QF♦ | SF♦ | QF♦ | qr1 | QF♦ | q1 | q3 | q3 | q1 | q3 | QF | q2 | q1 | QF | q4 | |
U | q4 | q1 | q2 | q2 | q4 | q1 | qr1 | qr1 | q2 | q2 | q1 | q2 | QF | q2 | q2 | q3 | q2 | q3 | |
U | SF | q3 | q2 | SF | q4 | q3 | QF | qr1 | q3 | q3 | q4 | q1 | q3 | q1 | q3 | q4 | q2 | q1 | |
U | q2 | QF | SF | q4 | q2 | QF | qr3 | qr2 | QF | q1 | SF♦ | Ch♦ | QF | RU♦ | QF | QF | q4 | S8♦ | |
U | q1 | q1 | q4 | q2 | q2 | q1 | qr1 | qr3 | q3 | RU | q4 | QF | q2 | q2 | q1 | q1 | q4 | q2 | |
U | q1 | q3 | QF | SF | q1 | q4 | qr2 | qr3 | q1 | q2 | q1 | q1 | q2 | q1 | QF | q2 | q1 | q4 | |
U | q2 | q1 | q2 | q1 | q4 | q2 | QF | qr3 | q2 | q4 | q1 | q2 | QF♦ | QF | QF♦ | q2 | QF | SF | |
U | QF♦ | q4 | Ch♦ | QF | Ch | q2 | QF♦ | Ch | SF♦ | QF♦ | QF | q3 | SF | q2 | SF | QF♦ | SF♦ | RU |
See also
References
- ↑ "Kerry on honour roll". Irish Independent. Independent News & Media. 14 September 2009. Retrieved 14 September 2009.
- ↑ "Fermanagh dominate writers awards". BBC Sport. BBC. 20 November 2004. Retrieved 20 November 2004.
- ↑ "DDTV Video: Murphy strike against Mayo named Goal of the Championship". Donegal Daily. 27 September 2012. Retrieved 27 September 2012.
According to Ger Canning, RTÉ's commentator for the 2012 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final.