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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 |
Captain | Matt Gilsenan |
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]
2 Preliminary rounds instead of usual 1. Involved were Longford, Carlow, Westmeath & Wicklow of course the winners qualified for a quarterfinal to meet the stronger teams.
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 quarterfinals along with Tipperary, Limerick and Clare, the winners of the game played in a lone Semifinal. The format was previously used in 1933 and was used again in 1941.
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:
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). |
Round 1 | Round 2 | ||||||||
![]() | 0–17 | ||||||||
4-04 | ![]() | ||||||||
3–04 | |||||||||
![]() | 2–05 | ||||||||
![]() | 2–08 | ||||||||
![]() | 1–03 |
Quarterfinals | Semifinals | 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. |
Preliminary round | Quarterfinals | Semifinal | ||||||||||||
![]() | 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). |
Preliminary round | ||||
![]() | 1–06 | |||
![]() | 1–05 |
Quarterfinals | Semifinals | 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 |
Semifinals | 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). |
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