1939 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Championship details | |
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Teams | 26 |
All-Ireland Champions | |
Winning team | Kerry (13th win) |
Captain | Tom O'Connor |
All-Ireland Finalists | |
Losing team | Meath |
Provincial Champions | |
Munster | Kerry |
Leinster | Meath |
Ulster | Cavan |
Connacht | Mayo |
Championship statistics | |
← 1938 1940 → |
The 1939 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 53rd staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Galway entered the championship as defending champions; however, they were beaten by Mayo in the Connacht final. Kerry were the winners.[1][2][3]
Format
Provincial Championships format changes
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
Semifinal | Final | ||||||||
![]() | 0-03 | ||||||||
![]() | 2-10 | ![]() | 2-06 | ||||||
![]() | 0-02 |
Mayo | 2-10 – 0-2 | Sligo |
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H Kenny (0-1), M Hannon (0-1), J Munnelly (1-3), P Moclair (1-1), T Hoban (0-4). |
Mayo | 2-6 – 0-3 | Galway |
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P Flannelly (0-3), M Hannon (0-1); J Munnelly (0-1), P Moclair (2-1). |
Round 1 | Round 2 | ||||||||
![]() | 0-17 | ||||||||
4-04 | ![]() | ||||||||
3-04 | |||||||||
![]() | 2-05 | ||||||||
![]() | 2-08 | ||||||||
![]() | 1-03 |
Quarter-Finals | Semi-Finals | Final | ||||||||||||
![]() | 0-06 | |||||||||||||
![]() | 0-04 | |||||||||||||
![]() | 1-07 | |||||||||||||
![]() | 0-07 | |||||||||||||
![]() | 3-04 | |||||||||||||
![]() | 1-06 | |||||||||||||
![]() | 2-03 | |||||||||||||
![]() | 2-07 | |||||||||||||
![]() | 1-09 | |||||||||||||
![]() | 1-07 | |||||||||||||
![]() | 2-10 | |||||||||||||
![]() | 2-08 | |||||||||||||
![]() | 2-11 | |||||||||||||
![]() | 1-01 |
Kildare | 2-11 – 1-1 | Offaly |
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M.Geraghty 1-5, T.Dalton 1-1, P.Barry 0-2, M.Brosnan, P.Waters, H.Ennis 0-1. |
Meath | 2-10 – 2-8 | Kildare |
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W.Ryan 1-1, M.Geraghty 0-3, P.Barry 1-0, P.Waters, R.Martin, M.Brosnan, T.Dalton 0-1. |
Meath | 2-7 – 2-3 | Wexford |
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Tony Donnelly 0-5 (0-3f), Jim Clarke and Hugh Lynch 1-0 each, Matty Gilsenan and Jack Cummins 0-1 each | Tom Roche 1-2 and Joe Smyth 1-1 |
Preliminary Round | Quarter-Finals | Semi-Final | ||||||||||||
![]() | 1-08, 2-14 | |||||||||||||
![]() | 2-05, 0-03 | |||||||||||||
![]() | 1-06 | |||||||||||||
![]() | 4-05 | |||||||||||||
![]() | 1-09 | |||||||||||||
![]() | 0-08 | ![]() | 2-02 | |||||||||||
![]() | 0-07 |
Final | ||||
![]() | 2-11 | |||
![]() | 0-04 |
Cork | 0-8 – 0-7 | Waterford |
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D. O’Connor & P. Barron (0-1), R. Harnedy (1-1), P.O’Sullivan (0-1), J. Young & R. Keily (0-2). |
Kerry | 2-11 – 0-4 | Tipperary |
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Johnny Walsh (0-1), Tony McAuliffe (1-1), Charlie O'Sullivan (0-1), Mikey Lyne (0-3) & Murt Kelly (1-4). |
Preliminary Round | ||||
![]() | 1-06 | |||
![]() | 1-05 |
Quarter-Finals | Semi-Finals | Final | ||||||||||||
![]() | 1-06, 1-06 | |||||||||||||
![]() | 1-06, 0-02 | |||||||||||||
![]() | 2-04, 1-04 | |||||||||||||
![]() | 2-06, 2-03 | |||||||||||||
![]() | 0-06 | |||||||||||||
![]() | 1-01 | |||||||||||||
![]() | 0-04 | |||||||||||||
![]() | 5-12 | |||||||||||||
![]() | 4-11 | |||||||||||||
![]() | 1-02 |
Semi-Finals | Final | ||||||||
1M | ![]() | 0-04, 3-08 | |||||||
1C | ![]() | 0-04, 1-04 | |||||||
1M | ![]() | 2-05 | |||||||
1L | ![]() | 2-03 | |||||||
1L | ![]() | 1-09 | |||||||
1U | ![]() | 1-01 |
Kerry | 0-4 – 0-4 | Mayo |
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Sean Brosnan (0-2), Charlie O'Sullivan (0-1) & Murt Kelly (0-1). | P Flannelly (0-1), J Carney (0-1) & T Hoban (0-2, one free). |
Kerry | 3-8 – 1-4 | Mayo |
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P. Kennedy(0-1), J. G. O'Gorman (0-2), S. Brosnan (0-1), J. Walsh (1-1), T. Landers (0-2), D. Spring (1-0) & C. O'Sullivan (1-1). | H Kenny (0-1), P Laffey (0-2), J Munnelly (1-0) & T Hoban (0-1). |
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
- ^ "Football Results 1911 - 1940 | the Official Website of the GAA". Archived from the original on 21 March 2012. Retrieved 22 July 2011.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 22 July 2011.
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