1896 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

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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]

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Results

Leinster

Dublin 0-12 – 1-3 Wicklow

Louth 1-6 – 0-2 Offaly

Kildare 0-6 – 02 Wexford

Kildare 1-12 – 2-13 Dublin

Kilkenny 0-4 – 1-10 Meath

Dublin 2-4 – 1-5
Unfinished
Meath

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

Limerick 1-2 – 1-1 Cork

Limerick 2-4 – 0-6 Tipperary
Mallow
Referee: D.Power

Limerick 0-4 – 0-1 Waterford

All-Ireland final

Limerick 1-5 – 0-7 Dublin
Jones's Road, Dublin
Attendance: 3,500
Referee: Thomas Dooley (Cork)

Statistics

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