1939 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
| Championship details | |
|---|---|
| Teams | 26 |
| All-Ireland Champions | |
| Winning team | Kerry (13th win) |
| 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. Kerry were the winners.[1][2][3]
Format
Munster Championship format change
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 Quarter finals along with Tipperary, Limerick and Clare the winners of the game played in a lone Semi final. The format was previously used in 1933 and was used again in 1941.
All Ireland Semi Finals system
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:
- Munster V. Connacht
- Ulster V. Leinster
Provincial Championships
| Semifinal | Final | ||||||||
 Galway
| 0-03 | ||||||||
 Mayo
| 2-10 | Mayo
| 2-06 | ||||||
 Sligo
| 0-02 | ||||||||
| Preliminary Round 1 | Preliminary Round 2 | ||||||||
 Longford
| 0-17 | ||||||||
| Westmeath
| 1-03 | ||||||||
| 3-04 | |||||||||
| 2-05 | |||||||||
 Carlow
| |||||||||
| 2-08 | Third place | ||||||||
| Carlow
| |||||||||
| Quarter-Finals | Semi-Finals | Final | ||||||||||||
 Wexford
| 0-06 | |||||||||||||
| Longford
| 0-04 | |||||||||||||
| Wexford
| 1-07 | |||||||||||||
 Louth
| 0-07 | |||||||||||||
| Louth
| 3-04 | |||||||||||||
 Dublin
| 1-06 | |||||||||||||
| Wexford
| 2-03 | |||||||||||||
 Meath
| 2-07 | |||||||||||||
| Meath
| 1-09 | |||||||||||||
 Laois
| 1-07 | |||||||||||||
| Meath
| 2-10 | |||||||||||||
 Kildare
| 2-08 | |||||||||||||
| Kildare
| 2-11 | |||||||||||||
 Offaly
| 1-01 | |||||||||||||
| Preliminary Round | Quarter-Finals | Semi-Final | ||||||||||||
 Clare
| 1-08, 2-14 | |||||||||||||
 Limerick
| 2-05, 0-03 | |||||||||||||
| Clare
| 1-06 | |||||||||||||
| Tipperary
| 4-05 | |||||||||||||
| Tipperary
| 1-09 | |||||||||||||
| Cork
| 0-08 | Cork
| 2-02 | |||||||||||
 Waterford
| 0-07 | |||||||||||||
| Final | ||||
| Kerry
| 2-11 | |||
| Tipperary
| 0-04 | |||
| Preliminary Round | ||||
 Down
| 1-06 | |||
 Antrim
| 1-05 | |||
| Quarter-Finals | Semi-Finals | Final | ||||||||||||
 Armagh
| 1-06, 1-06 | |||||||||||||
| Monaghan
| 1-06, 0-02 | |||||||||||||
| Armagh
| 2-04, 1-04 | |||||||||||||
| Cavan
| 2-06, 2-03 | |||||||||||||
| Donegal
| 0-06 | |||||||||||||
| Down
| 1-01 | |||||||||||||
| Donegal
| 0-04 | |||||||||||||
| Cavan
| 5-12 | |||||||||||||
| Cavan
| 4-11 | |||||||||||||
 Tyrone
| 1-02 | |||||||||||||
| Semi-Finals | Final | ||||||||
| 1M | Kerry
| 0-04, 3-08 | |||||||
| 1C | Mayo
| 0-04, 1-04 | |||||||
| 1M | Kerry
| 2-05 | |||||||
| 1L | Meath
| 2-03 | |||||||
| 1L | Meath
| 1-09 | |||||||
| 1U | Cavan
| 1-01 | |||||||
Championship statistics
Miscellaneous
- Meath win their second Leinster Title first since 1895.
- Kerry are now one behind Dublin with All Ireland titles.
- There were a number of first-time championship meetings; There were 2 first time championship meetings in the All Ireland Series at first in the semi-final stage a first meeting between Meath vs Cavan while the second was All Ireland final was the first championship meeting of Kerry vs Meath.
References
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