| League details | |
|---|---|
| Dates | 11 October 1953 – 9 May 1954 |
| League champions | |
| Winners | Mayo (9th win) |
| Captain | Pádraig Carney |
| League runners-up | |
| Runners-up | Carlow |
| Captain | Billy McGuill |
← 1952–53 1954–55 → | |
The 1953–54 National Football League was the 23rd staging of the National Football League (NFL), an annual Gaelic football tournament for the Gaelic Athletic Association county teams of Ireland.
The National Football League is an annual Gaelic football competition between the senior county teams of Ireland plus London. Sponsored by Allianz, it is officially known as the Allianz National Football League.
Gaelic football, commonly referred to as football or Gaelic, is an Irish team sport. It is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch. The objective of the sport is to score by kicking or punching the ball into the other team's goals or between two upright posts above the goals and over a crossbar 2.5 metres (8.2 ft) above the ground.
A Gaelic Athletic Association county is a geographic region within the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), controlled by a county board and originally based on the 32 counties of Ireland as they were in 1884. While the administrative geography of Ireland has since changed, with several new counties created and the six that make up Northern Ireland superseded by 11 local government districts, the GAA counties have remained largely unchanged.
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Carlow reached their only final to date, and opened well, leading Mayo by 0-2 to 0-1 after ten minutes. But then the 'flying doctor' Pádraig Carney, who came home from America for the game, levelled before Tommy Langan punched a goal from a Carney centre in the 26th minute. Mayo's second goal from M. Flanagan in the 10th minute of the second-half ended Carlow's dreams of National League glory, and gave Mayo their ninth NFL win. [1] [2] [3]
Pádraig Carney is a former Gaelic footballer who played as a centre-forward for the Mayo senior team.
Thomas "Tommy" Langan was an Irish Gaelic footballer who played as a centre-forward and as a full-forward for the Mayo senior team. He is regarded as the greatest Gaelic football full-forward of all-time.
