1920 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

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1920 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning team Tipperary (4th win)
Captain Jerry Shelly
All-Ireland Finalists
Losing team Dublin
Captain P McDonnell
Provincial Champions
Munster Tipperary
Leinster Dublin
Ulster Cavan
Connacht Mayo
Championship statistics
1919
1921

The 1920 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 34th staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. [1] [2] [3]

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In the Leinster final Dublin ended Kildare's period as All Ireland champions.

The championship was disrupted by the ongoing Irish War of Independence, including the events of Bloody Sunday in November 1920, when British forces killed fourteen people at a match between Dublin and Tipperary at Croke Park in Dublin. [4] Because Dublin and Tipperary were the eventual finalists, it is often incorrectly assumed that this was the All-Ireland final, but it was actually a challenge match held to raise funds for the Republican Prisoners Dependents Fund. [5] In fact, Tipperary did not play their semi-final match until 1922, 19 months after Dublin won the first semi-final. [4]

The Final was played in June 1922. Tipperary beat Dublin by 1-6 to 1-2. [4]

100 years later, the same four teams appeared in the semi-finals, with Cavan also playing Dublin and Mayo also playing Tipperary, confirmed on the weekend of the centenary of Bloody Sunday with the championship delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic. [6]

Provincial Championships

Connacht Senior Football Championship

Leitrim 3-3 – 0-2 Roscommon

Galway 0-3 – 2-4 Mayo

Sligo 1-7 – 0-2 Leitrim

Mayo 2-3 – 1-4 Sligo
Castlerea
Attendance: 2,000

Leinster Senior Football Championship

Kilkenny 0-3 – 2-1 Laois

Westmeath 2-2 – 2-1 Longford

Wicklow 1-7 – 3-2 Carlow

Meath 0-1 – 1-4 Louth

Westmeath 0-6 – 0-3 Louth

Laois 3-5 – 2-2 Carlow

Dublin 3-3 – 0-3 Offaly

Kildare 2-6 – 1-2 Wexford

Dublin 2-6 – 0-1 Laois

Kildare 1-5 – 0-1 Westmeath

Dublin 1-3 – 0-3 Kildare
Paddy Carey 1-0, Bill Robbins (0-1f), Frank Burke, Stephen Synott 0-1 eachJoyce Conlan 0-2 and Albert O'Neill 0-1f
Referee: PD Breen (Wexford)

Munster Senior Football Championship

Waterford 3-2– 1-1 Limerick

Clare 1-2– 1-2 Tipperary
Limerick
Referee: P. Parfrey ( C )

Clare 0-2– 0-2
A.E.T.
Tipperary

Tipperary 1-7 – 0-1 Clare
Referee: W. Benn ( T )

Kerry 2-6 – 0-4 Cork

Tipperary 3-4 – 0-1 Waterford
Referee: W. Walsh (Waterford)

Tipperary 2-2 – 0-2 Kerry
Referee: W. Walsh (Waterford)

Ulster Senior Football Championship

Down 0-10 – 0-5 Antrim

Armagh 2-1 – 0-0 Tyrone

Cavan 2-2 – 1-3 Monaghan

Derry 0-11 – 0-7 Donegal

Cavan 8-3 – 2-1 Fermanagh

Armagh 0-4 – 0-3 Down

Cavan 3-4 – 0-1 Derry

Cavan 4-6 – 1-4 Armagh

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

Bracket

Semi-Finals Final
      
Colours of Dublin.svg Dublin 3-06
Colours of Cavan.svg Cavan 1-03
Colours of Dublin.svg Dublin 1-02
Colours of Tipperary.svg Tipperary 1-06
Colours of Tipperary.svg Tipperary 1-05
Colours of Mayo.svg Mayo 1-00
Dublin 3-6 – 1-3 Cavan

Tipperary 1-5 – 1-0 Mayo

Tipperary 1-6 – 1-2 Dublin
Powell (1–03), Vaughan (0–02) & McCarthy (0–01). Report Frank Burke (1-00), McDonnell (0-01) & S Synott (0-01).
Croke Park, Dublin [1] [2]
Attendance: 17,000
Referee: W. Walsh (Waterford)

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