All-Ireland Champions | |
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Winning team | Kerry (14th win) |
Captain | Seán Brosnan |
All-Ireland Finalists | |
Losing team | Galway |
Captain | John "Tull" Dunne |
Provincial Champions | |
Munster | Kerry |
Leinster | Meath |
Ulster | Cavan |
Connacht | Galway |
Championship statistics | |
← 1939 1941 → |
The 1940 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 54th staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Kerry won their fourteenth All-Ireland title, putting them level with Dublin in the all-time standings. [1] [2] [3]
A reduced amount of counties in the championship of 1940.
There is normal format of 2 Quarter-finals vs 2 Semi-finals in place. Limerick played final match until 1943 took a 2 year break.
The All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was run on a provincial basis as usual in rotation of every 3rd year, 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:
Kerry | 4-9 – 1-2 | Limerick |
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Tom Gega O'Connor (0-1), Jimmy Gawksie O'Gorman (1-1), Murt Kelly (0-1), Tony McAuliffe (1-1), Dan Spring (1-3) & Jimmy O'Gorman (1-2). |
Tipperary | 2-7 – 1-5 | Cork |
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R. Harmody (0-3), J. Young (1-1) & L. O’Sullivan (0-1). |
Kerry | 4-8 – 1-5 | Tipperary |
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Johnny Walsh (0-1), Murt Kelly (0-2), Dan Spring (2-2), Jimmy Gawksie O'Gorman (2-1) & Sub: Jim Bawn Fitzgerald (0-2) for Jack Walsh. |
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