1939 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

Format

Provincial Championships format changes

Leinster Championship format change

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.

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 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.

All Ireland semifinals 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

[[Connacht Senior Football Championship]]

Semifinal

Final

[[Leinster Senior Football Championship]]

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Round 1

Round 2

Quarterfinal

Quarterfinal

Quarterfinal

Quarterfinal

Semifinal

Semifinal

Final

[[Munster Senior Football Championship]]

Preliminary round

Quarterfinal

Quarterfinal

Quarterfinal Replay

Semifinal

Final

[[Ulster Senior Football Championship]]

Preliminary round

Quarterfinal

Quarterfinal

Semifinal

Semifinal Replay

Semifinal

Final

Final Replay

[[All-Ireland Senior Football Championship]]

Semifinal

Semifinal

Semifinal Replay

Main article: 1939 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final

Final

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

• Meath win their second Leinster Title first since 1895.
• Kerry are now one behind Dublin with All Ireland titles.
• The Ulster Final was originally scheduled for St. Mary's Park, Castleblaney, however it had to be abandoned when spectators encroached onto the pitch, with Cavan leading by two points. The replay was fixed for Croke Park the following week as a double-header of the All-Ireland semi-final between Kerry and Mayo.
• 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 semifinal 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

References

1. "Football Results 1911 – 1940 | the Official Website of the GAA".
2. "All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Results 1887-2010".
3. "Leinster Senior Football Champions".
4. Frontier Sentinel – Saturday 12 August 1939 "Central Council have fixed the replay for [[Croke Park]] to-morrow, so that Armagh and Cavan will appear on the same bill as Kerry and Mayo. https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0003475/19390812/243/0010