All ireland senior football championship

The article discusses information for the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship from to the present. Kilkenny do not compete anymore, having won three Leinster Senior Football Championships in the distant past.

Contested by the top male inter-county football teams in Ireland, the tournament has taken place every year since , except in when the competition was not played due to a tour of the United States by would-be competitors. The winning team receives the Sam Maguire Cup. The final has been played at Croke Park in Dublin since , with the exception of the final which was played at the Polo Grounds in New York. Teams from the southern province of Munster shared the early titles, with Limerick, Tipperary and Cork winning the first three finals. The first Championship featured club teams who represented their respective counties after their county championship.

All ireland senior football championship

County teams compete against each other and the winner is declared All-Ireland Champions. Organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association GAA , the championship has been contested every year except one since For the majority of its existence, the All-Ireland Championship has been played on a straight knockout basis whereby once a team loses they are eliminated from the championship. In more recent years, the qualification procedures for the championship have changed several times. Currently, qualification is limited to teams competing in 6 feeder competitions; the finalists of the 4 provincial championships : Connacht , Leinster , Munster and Ulster , the Tailteann Cup holders and the best non-qualified National Football League teams to make the 16 team group stage. Thirty three teams currently participate in the All-Ireland Championship, with Kerry , Dublin , Galway and Cavan being the most successful teams in their respective provinces. The title has been won by 19 different counties, 17 of whom have won the title more than once. The all-time record-holders are Kerry , who have won the championship on 38 occasions. Dublin are the current title holders, defeating Kerry by to in the final. The first Championship to be held featured club teams who represented their respective counties after their county championship. Unlike later All-Ireland competitions, there were no provincial championships, and the result was an open draw. The second Championship was unfinished owing to the American Invasion Tour.

Galway hold the record of losing a final to a team containing the least number of players, they were beaten by a Dublin team which had been reduced to just 12 players in the All Ireland Final of Nothing beats being there, as the GAA slogan goes, but for the neutrals who can't be in Ballybofey, all ireland senior football championship, the game is live on TG4 from throw-in at 4pm. Retrieved 6 February

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The All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the th edition of the Gaelic Athletic Association 's premier inter-county Gaelic football tournament since its establishment in Thirty one of the thirty two Irish counties took part — Kilkenny did not compete, while London and New York completed the lineup. The championship worked as a two-tier system for the second time, with the Tailteann Cup being the second tier competition for those that do not qualify for the Sam Maguire Cup competition. The draws for the provincial championships took place on 15 October Dublin won their 31st title after a 1—15 to 1—13 win against Kerry.

All ireland senior football championship

Contested by the top male inter-county football teams in Ireland, the tournament has taken place every year since , except in when the competition was not played due to a tour of the United States by would-be competitors. The winning team receives the Sam Maguire Cup. The final has been played at Croke Park in Dublin since , with the exception of the final which was played at the Polo Grounds in New York. Teams from the southern province of Munster shared the early titles, with Limerick, Tipperary and Cork winning the first three finals. The first Championship featured club teams who represented their respective counties after their county championship. The 21 a-side final, played in Beech Hill, Donnybrook on 29 April , was contested between Commercials of Limerick and Young Irelands of Louth, with Commercials winning by 1—4 to 0—3. The second Championship was unfinished owing to the American Invasion Tour.

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One team is eliminated at this stage while the winners advance to the quarter-finals. The All-Ireland Qualifiers were introduced in Retrieved 26 May Hidden categories: Webarchive template wayback links Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata Use Hiberno-English from July All Wikipedia articles written in Hiberno-English Use dmy dates from October Articles containing Irish-language text Commons category link from Wikidata. The championship has never been won by a team from outside Ireland, though London have played in five finals. Curiously, it made little difference to the outcome of matches. Quarter-finals 4 matches : The winners of the three preliminary round matches join the other five teams to make up the quarter-final pairings. Seasons Donegal , Leitrim. Retrieved 15 September Retrieved 11 September

County teams compete against each other and the winner is declared All-Ireland Champions. Organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association GAA , the championship has been contested every year except one since

Retrieved 13 July Munster Senior Football Championship. Three teams are eliminated at this stage while the winners advance to the quarter-finals. Quarter-finals 3 matches : These are three matches between the first six teams drawn - the other team receive a bye. The final brought victory for Cavan , who became the first team from the northern province of Ulster to win an All-Ireland title. In , Joe Stafford of Cavan became the first player to be sent off in an all-Ireland senior football final. The first Championship to be held featured club teams who represented their respective counties after their county championship. Preliminary round 1 match : This is one match between the first two teams drawn - the other seven teams receive a bye. Of the five finals plus replay played over 80 minutes — the length of a match was settled at 70 minutes from onwards — only the Offaly-Galway result would have been affected. Edit source View history Talk 0. The following table sets out the winning team and beaten finalist of each All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final. Cusack Park. Galway were the first team from the western province of Connacht to win an All-Ireland title, in , while Cavan were the first from the northern province of Ulster , in