1939 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
The 1939 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 53rd staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Kerry were the winners.[1][2][3]
Championship details | |
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Teams | 26 |
All-Ireland Champions | |
Winning team | Kerry (13th win) |
Provincial Champions | |
Munster | Kerry |
Leinster | Meath |
Ulster | Cavan |
Connacht | Mayo |
Championship statistics | |
← 1938 1940 → |
Format
Leinster Championship format change
2 Preliminary Rounds instead of usual 1. Involved were Longford, Carlow, Westmeath & Wicklow of course the winners qualified for a Quarter-Final to meet the stronger teams.
Munster Championship format change
In 1939 Kerry were given a bye to the Munster final, Preliminary Round was just a lone match between Cork vs Waterford, The winners of the game played in the Quarter finals along with Tipperary, Limerick and Clare the winners of the game played in a lone Semi final. The format was previously used in 1933 and was used again in 1941.
All Ireland Semi Finals system
The All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was run on a provincial basis as usual in every 3rd year in rotation, with the four winners from Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster advancing to the All-Ireland semi-finals. The draw for these games was as follows:
- Munster V. Connacht
- Ulster V. Leinster
Provincial Championships
Leinster Senior Football Championship
Preliminary Round 1 | Prelinimary Round 2 | ||||||||
Longford | 0-17 | ||||||||
4-04 | Westmeath | ||||||||
3-04 | |||||||||
Carlow | 2-05 | ||||||||
Carlow | 2-08 | ||||||||
Wicklow | 1-03 | ||||||||
Quarter-Finals | Semi-Finals | Final | ||||||||||||
Wexford | 0-06 | |||||||||||||
Longford | 0-04 | |||||||||||||
Wexford | 1-07 | |||||||||||||
Louth | 0-07 | |||||||||||||
Louth | 3-04 | |||||||||||||
Dublin | 1-06 | |||||||||||||
Wexford | 2-03 | |||||||||||||
Meath | 2-07 | |||||||||||||
Meath | 1-09 | |||||||||||||
Laois | 1-07 | |||||||||||||
Meath | 2-10 | |||||||||||||
Kildare | 2-08 | |||||||||||||
Kildare | 2-11 | |||||||||||||
Offaly | 1-01 | |||||||||||||
Munster Senior Football Championship
Preliminary Round | Quarter-Finals | Semi-Final | |||||||||||
Clare | 1-08, 2-14 | ||||||||||||
Limerick | 2-05, 0-03 | ||||||||||||
Clare | 1-06 | ||||||||||||
Tipperary | 4-05 | ||||||||||||
Tipperary | 1-09 | ||||||||||||
Cork | 0-08 | Cork | 2-02 | ||||||||||
Waterford | 0-07 | ||||||||||||
Final | ||||
Kerry | 2-11 | |||
Tipperary | 0-04 | |||
Ulster Senior Football Championship
Preliminary Round | ||||
Down | 1-06 | |||
Antrim | 1-05 | |||
Quarter-Finals | Semi-Finals | Final | ||||||||||||
Armagh | 1-06, 1-06 | |||||||||||||
Monaghan | 1-06, 0-02 | |||||||||||||
Armagh | 2-04, 1-04 | |||||||||||||
Cavan | 2-06, 2-03 | |||||||||||||
Donegal | 0-06 | |||||||||||||
Down | 1-01 | |||||||||||||
Donegal | 0-04 | |||||||||||||
Cavan | 5-12 | |||||||||||||
Cavan | 4-11 | |||||||||||||
Tyrone | 1-02 | |||||||||||||
All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Semi-Finals | Final | ||||||||
1M | Kerry | 0-04, 3-08 | |||||||
1C | Mayo | 0-04, 1-04 | |||||||
1M | Kerry | 2-05 | |||||||
1L | Meath | 2-03 | |||||||
1L | Meath | 1-09 | |||||||
1U | Cavan | 1-01 | |||||||
Championship statistics
Miscellaneous
- Meath win their second Leinster Title first since 1895.
- Kerry are now one behind Dublin with All Ireland titles.
- There were a number of first-time championship meetings; There were 2 first time championship meetings in the All Ireland Series at first in the semi-final stage a first meeting between Meath vs Cavan while the second was All Ireland final was the first championship meeting of Kerry vs Meath.
References
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- "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-09-28. Retrieved 2011-09-28.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)