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1945 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

Football championship

Field	Value
year	1945
dates	29 April – 23 September 1945
teams	31
connacht	Galway
munster	Cork
leinster	Wexford
ulster	Cavan
matches	31
team	Cork
titles	3rd
captain	Tadhgo Crowley
team2	Cavan
captain2	Tom O'Reilly
previous	[1944](1944-all-ireland-senior-football-championship)
next	[1946](1946-all-ireland-senior-football-championship)

The 1945 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 59th staging of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county Gaelic football tournament. It was played at venues all over Ireland from 29 April to 23 September 1945.

31 teams entered, with Kilkenny once again declining to field a team. Roscommon were the defending champions, however, they surrendered their title in their opening game, a Connacht semi-final defeat by Mayo.

The All-Ireland final was played on 23 September 1945 at Croke Park in Dublin, between Cork and Cavan, in what was their first ever meeting in a final. Cork won the match by 2–05 to 0–07 to claim their third championship title overall and a first title since 1911.

Results

[[Connacht Senior Football Championship]]

Quarter-final

Semi-finals

Final

[[Leinster Senior Football Championship]]

Preliminary round

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

[[Munster Senior Football Championship]]

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

[[Ulster Senior Football Championship]]

Preliminary round

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

[[All-Ireland Senior Football Championship]]

Semi-finals

Final

Main article: 1945 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

Limerick beat Clare for the only time between 1909 and 1980.
Wexford win the Leinster final for the first time since 1925.
The attendance of 44,526 at Cavan-Wexford game was a new record for an All-Ireland semi-final.
Cork end their longest drought as All Ireland Champions with future Taoiseach, Jack Lynch among the team a 34 year wait at and end first since 1911.

References

(September 2020). "Clon connections to Cork success in 1945". West Cork People.
(3 February 2010). "A football life less ordinary". The Anglo-Celt.
Keys, Colm. (31 July 2013). "Bailieborough and the Cavan goalkeeping connection". Irish Independent.

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