1903 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

The 1903 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 17th staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Kerry won their first football All-Ireland.[1][2][3]

1903 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning teamKerry (1st win)
Provincial Champions
MunsterKerry
LeinsterKildare
UlsterCavan
ConnachtMayo
Championship statistics
← 1902
1904 →

Format

The four provincial championships are played as usual. The four champions play in the "Home" championship, with the winners of the Home final going on to face London in the All-Ireland final.

Results

Connacht Championship
Mayo3-6 – 0-1Roscommon

Leinster Championship
Longford0-2 – 2-12Wexford
Jones Road, Dublin
Louth1-6 – 0-1Wexford
Jones Road, Dublin
Offaly0-2 – 1-5Laois
Maryboro
Referee: J McCarthy
Kildare3-11 – 0-3Dublin
Kildare4-5 – 1-1Laois
Maryboro
Kildare1-2 – 0-5Kilkenny
Kildare1-6 – 1-5Kilkenny

A replay was ordered due to a disputed disallowed Kilkenny point.

Kildare0-9 – 0-1Kilkenny
Jones' Road, Dublin

Munster Championship
Kerry4-8 – 0-3Waterford
Cork1-5 – 0-4Tipperary
Referee: L. O'Toole (D)
Kerry2-7 – 2-0Clare
Kerry1-7 – 0-4Cork

Ulster Championship
Monaghan0-11 – 0-3Fermanagh
Cavan0-11 – 0-3Monaghan
Cavan0-5 – 0-5Armagh
Abbey Park, Armagh[9]
Cavan0-5 – 0-5Armagh
Cavan0-8 – 0-4Armagh

All-Ireland Championship
Kerry2-7 – 0-4Mayo
Kildare0-8 – 0-0Cavan
Jones' Road, Dublin
Kerry1-4 – 1-3
Unfinished		Kildare

Unfinished game - replay ordered.

Kerry0-7 – 1-4Kildare
Kerry0-8 – 0-2Kildare
Main article: 1903 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
Kerry0-11 – 0-3London
Jones' Road, Dublin
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: John McCarthy (Kilkenny)

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous
  • Kildare win their first ever Leinster final.
  • Kerry win their first ever All Ireland final.

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-03-21. Retrieved 2011-07-05.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2011-07-05.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-09-28. Retrieved 2011-09-28.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. Cork Examiner; 14/06/1904
  5. Freemans Journal; 08/08/1904
  6. Freemans Journal; 31/10/1904
  7. "Ulster Championship", Dundalk Democrat, 14 January 1905, p. 6
  8. "Ulster Championship", Dundalk Democrat, 18 March 1905, p. 7
  9. "Ulster Football Final", Meath Chronicle, 29 April 1905, p. 5
  10. "Ulster Final - Another Drawn Game", Anglo-Celt, 3 June 1905, p. 12
  11. "Ulster Final - Cavan victorious", The Anglo-Celt, 17 June 1905, p.12
  12. Cork Examiner; 08/05/1905
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