1940 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

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1940 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
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]

Contents

Format

Provincial Championships format changes

Leinster Championship format change

A reduced amount of counties in the championship of 1940.

Munster Championship format change

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.

All Ireland semi-finals system

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:

Results

Connacht Senior Football Championship

Sligo 2-4 – 1-7 Mayo
M O’Malley (1-0) & T Hoban (0-4, one free).

Sligo 0-7 – 3-2 Mayo
G Ormsby (0-2), P Moclair (2-0) & sub J Laffey (1-0).

Galway 1-7 – 0-5 Mayo
G Ormsby (0-1), P Laffey (0-1) & M O’Malley (0-3).

Leinster Senior Football Championship

Laois 1-7 – 1-6 Carlow

Offaly 1-13 – 1-5 Wicklow
Naas
Referee: G Higgins

Meath 3-11– 1-7 Longford

Dublin 1-9– 2-5 Louth

Laois 3-4– 0-4 Wexford

Offaly 2-6 – 0-8 Kildare
A.O'Leary 0-3, R.Martin 0-2, T.Mulhall, B.Dunne, T.Dalton 0-1.

Meath 1-7 – 0-4 Dublin

Offaly 0-7 – 2-7 Laois
Geraldine Park, Athy
Referee: T Kehoe (Wexford)

Meath 2-7 – 1-7 Laois
Jackie Maye 2-0, Kevin Devin 0-4f, Tony Donnelly 0-2, Peter McDermott 0-1Chris Delaney 0-5 (0-3f) and Danny Douglas 1-2
Croke Park, Dublin
Attendance: 19,803
Referee: Dave Hamilton (Dublin)

Munster Senior Football Championship

Kerry 4-9 – 1-2 Limerick
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
R. Harmody (0-3), J. Young (1-1) & L. O’Sullivan (0-1).
Mitchelstown
Referee: P. McKenna (Limerick)

Clare 1-6 – 2-3 Waterford

Kerry 4-8 – 1-5 Tipperary
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.
Cork Athletic Grounds, Cork
Referee: S. Murphy ( C )

Clare 1-3 – 2-5 Waterford

Kerry 1-10 – 0-6 Waterford
Tom Gega O'Connor (0-2), Sean Brosnan (1-2), Murt Kelly (0-2) & Dan Spring (0-2).

Ulster Senior Football Championship

Antrim 3-3 – 0-12 Cavan

Donegal 0-6 – 0-5 Armagh

Down 3-8 – 2-5 Tyrone

Antrim 0-4 – 6-13 Cavan

Cavan 0-12 – 2-3 Donegal
Bundoran
Attendance: 3,000

Monaghan 2-3 – 2-3 Down

Monaghan 1-3 – 0-8 Down

Cavan 4-10 – 1-5 Down

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

Galway 3-8 – 2-5 Meath

Kerry 3-4 – 0-8 Cavan
Tom Gega O'Connor (0-1), Johnny Walsh (1-1) & Sean Brosnan (0-1).

Kerry 0-7 – 1-3 Galway
Tom Gega O'Connor (0-1), Murt Kelly (0-2), Dan Spring (0-1), Charlie O'Sullivan (0-2) & Sub, Paddy Bawn Brosnan (0-1) for Dan Spring.J. Duggan (1-0), B. Nestor, J. Dunne & J. Burke (0-1) each.
Croke Park, Dublin
Attendance: 60,821
Referee: Seamus Burke, (Kildare)

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

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