1954 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

The 1954 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 68th staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition.

1954 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning teamMeath (2nd win)
Provincial Champions
MunsterKerry
LeinsterMeath
UlsterCavan
ConnachtGalway
Championship statistics
← 1953
1955 →

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

Results

Connacht Senior Football Championship
Mayo4-9 – 1-7Roscommon
Attendance: 15,000
Sligo1-8 – 1-7Leitrim
Galway2-4 – 1-5Mayo
Attendance: 5,000
Galway2-10 – 3-4Sligo
Attendance: 15,000

Leinster Senior Football Championship
Longford1-6 – 0-7Laois
Kildare1-5 – 0-8Carlow
Kildare1-9 – 2-6
A.E.T.		Carlow
Meath1-9 – 1-8Wicklow
Kildare1-7 – 1-6Carlow
Dublin0-11 – 0-2Louth
Longford1-7 – 1-4Westmeath
Wexford0-7 – 1-5Offaly
Referee: W Delaney
Meath3-2 – 0-5Kildare
Dublin2-4 – 2-5Offaly
Referee: W Goodison
Meath2-9 – 1-5Longford
Meath4-7 – 2-10Offaly
Attendance: 44109
Referee: W Goodison

Munster Senior Football Championship

Note there were no Quarter-Final's were played Limerick didn't complete (1953-1964) while Clare decided to skip the Munster championships for just 1 year. This means that Kerry, Cork, Tipperary and Waterford would go on straight to the Semi-Final's with the winners of both matches qualify for the final.

Kerry3-10 – 1-2Waterford
Cork3-11 – 2-7Tipperary
Referee: J. O'Connell (L)
Kerry4-9 – 2-3Cork

Ulster Senior Football Championship
Tyrone1-7 – 1-5Donegal
Derry4-11 – 3-4Down
Armagh1-8 – 1-6Antrim
Attendance: 4,000
Cavan3-8 – 2-5Monaghan
Armagh1-12 – 2-6Derry
Cavan3-10 – 2-10Tyrone
Cavan2-10 – 2-5Armagh

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Meath1-5 – 0-7Cavan
Attendance: 42,123
Kerry2-6 – 1-6Galway
Attendance: 40,740
Main article: 1954 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
Meath1-13 – 1-7Kerry
Attendance: 75,276

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous
  • Munster championship didn't have Quarter-finals, due to Limerick 2nd year not taking part while Clare skipped the year.
  • Galway end a 9 year wait for the Connacht football title.
  • The All Ireland final was Meath's first ever win over Kerry in history.

References
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  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2011-07-22.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)
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