1943 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

The 1943 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 57th staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition.

1943 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning teamRoscommon (1st win)
Provincial Champions
MunsterCork
LeinsterLouth
UlsterCavan
ConnachtRoscommon
Championship statistics
1942
1944

Roscommon were the winners.[1][2][3]

Results

Connacht Senior Football Championship

Leitrim4-9 – 2-8Sligo

Galway3-6 – 1-5Mayo
Attendance: 3,000

Roscommon2-12 – 1-3Leitrim

Roscommon2-8 – 0-8Galway
St. Coman's Park, Roscommon

Leinster Senior Football Championship

Carlow1-11 – 1-10Wicklow

Louth2-10 – 1-8Meath

Westmeath1-5 – 2-2Longford

Wexford3-6 – 0-0Kilkenny
Barrett's Park, New Ross

Longford2-6 – 1-8Westmeath

Kildare1-10 – 4-8Laois

Carlow2-6 – 2-6Wexford

Louth4-5 – 1-6Dublin

Carlow1-7 – 1-1Wexford

Offaly2-11 – 2-9Longford

Louth1-9 – 2-3Offaly
Referee: P Dunne

Laois3-8 – 3-6Carlow

Louth3-16 – 2-4Laois
Peter Corr 1-6, C Carr 0-8, J Coyle 2-0, J Thornton 0-1, K Connolly 0-1 Syd Harkins 1-0, Danny Douglas 1-0, Chris Delaney 0-3, Bill Delaney 0-1

Munster Senior Football Championship

Tipperary2-7 – 0-9Waterford
Referee: P. J. O'Sullivan ( T )

Clare2-10 – 2-4Limerick

Cork0-9 – 0-9Kerry

Tipperary3-5 – 2-6Clare
Referee: B. Scannell (Galway)

Cork1-5 – 1-4Kerry

Cork1-7 – 1-4Tipperary
Referee: T. Greaney (W)

Ulster Senior Football Championship

Donegal0-7 – 1-8Tyrone

Monaghan3-8 – 3-4Armagh

Antrim0-13 – 1-8Down

Cavan4-10 – 1-3Tyrone

Monaghan1-10 – 1-5Antrim

Cavan2-3 – 0-5Monaghan
Attendance: 7,000

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

Roscommon3-10 – 3-6Louth
Attendance: 18,347

Cavan1-8 – 1-7Cork
Attendance: 30,322

Roscommon1-6 – 1-6Cavan
Attendance: 68,023

Roscommon2-7 – 2-2Cavan
Attendance: 47,193

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

  • The Wexford vs Kilkenny game was Kilkenny's only game (1931-1961) and also was the last championship game to be played at New Ross until 1997.
  • Louth win the Leinster championship for the first time since 1912.
  • Cork won their first Munster title since 1928.
  • Roscommon won the All Ireland title for the first time ever becoming the third county from Connacht after Galway in 1925 and then Mayo in 1936 to do so they also won their first Connacht title since 1914.
  • There were a number of first-time championship meetings: The complete All Ireland Series from the Semi-finals of Roscommon vs Louth, Cavan vs Cork and the final between Roscommon and Cavan were all the first championship meetings of the teams.
  • The All-Ireland final ends in a draw and goes to a replay for the first time since 1938.

References

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  3. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-09-28. Retrieved 2011-09-28.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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