1896 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

1896 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

All-Ireland Champions
Winning team	Limerick (2nd win)
Captain	Con Fitzgerald
All-Ireland Finalists
Losing team	Dublin
Provincial Champions
Munster	Limerick
Leinster	Dublin
Ulster	Not played
Connacht	Not played
Championship statistics
← 1895 1897 →

The 1896 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the tenth staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. It was the first championship in which a goal was worth three points. Limerick won their second, and so far last, title. In the Munster final they beat Tipperary, the defending champions. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Results

Leinster

1896
Quarter-Final

Dublin	0–12 – 1–3	Wicklow

Jones's Road, Dublin

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29 November 1896
Quarter-Final

Louth	1–6 – 0–2	Offaly

Jones's Road, Dublin

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6 December 1896
Quarter-Final

Kildare	0–6 – 02	Wexford

Jones's Road, Dublin

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30 May 1897
Semi-Final

Kildare	1–12 – 2–13	Dublin

Jones's Road, Dublin

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1897
Semi-Final

Kilkenny	0–4 – 1–10	Meath

Jones's Road, Dublin

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24 October 1897
Final

Dublin	2–4 – 1–5 Unfinished	Meath

Jones's Road, Dublin

The final was abandoned after 50 minutes of play. It was refixed on several occasions but never replayed. On 2 January 1898 Dublin were awarded the Leinster title.

Munster

14 March 1897
Quarter-final

Limerick	1–2 – 1–1	Cork

Tipperary

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3 November 1897
Semi-final

Limerick	2–4 – 0–6	Tipperary

Mallow

Referee: D.Power

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21 November 1897
Final

Limerick	0–4 – 0–1	Waterford

Mallow ^[4]

Final

Main article: 1896 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final

6 January 1898

Limerick	1–5 – 0–7	Dublin

Jones's Road, Dublin

Attendance: 3,500

Referee: Thomas Dooley (Cork)

Statistics

• Limerick win a Munster SFC title and a second All-Ireland SFC title.

References

1. "Football results 1887–1910". GAA. Archived from the original on 21 March 2012. Retrieved 4 July 2011.
2. "All-Ireland Senior Football Championship 1887–2010". HoganStand. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 4 July 2011.
3. "Leinster Senior Football Champions" (PDF). Leinster GAA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 28 September 2011.
4. "The Munster Football Championships", Munster Express, 27 November 1897, p.8