1896 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

1896 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning teamLimerick (2nd win)
CaptainCon Fitzgerald
All-Ireland Finalists
Losing teamDublin
Provincial Champions
MunsterLimerick
LeinsterDublin
UlsterNot played
ConnachtNot played
Championship statistics
← 1895
1897 →

The 1896 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the tenth staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. It was the first championship in which a goal was worth three points. Limerick won their second, and so far last, title. In the Munster final they beat Tipperary, the defending champions.[1][2][3]

Results

Leinster

Dublin0–12 – 1–3Wicklow
Louth1–6 – 0–2Offaly
Kildare0–6 – 02Wexford
Kildare1–12 – 2–13Dublin
Kilkenny0–4 – 1–10Meath
Dublin2–4 – 1–5
Unfinished		Meath

The final was abandoned after 50 minutes of play. It was refixed on several occasions but never replayed. On 2 January 1898 Dublin were awarded the Leinster title.

Munster

Limerick1–2 – 1–1Cork
Limerick2–4 – 0–6Tipperary
Referee: D.Power
Limerick0–4 – 0–1Waterford

Final

Main article: 1896 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
Limerick1–5 – 0–7Dublin
Attendance: 3,500
Referee: Thomas Dooley (Cork)

Statistics

  • Limerick win a Munster SFC title and a second All-Ireland SFC title.

References

  1. ^ "Football results 1887–1910". GAA. Archived from the original on 21 March 2012. Retrieved 4 July 2011.
  2. ^ "All-Ireland Senior Football Championship 1887–2010". HoganStand. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 4 July 2011.
  3. ^ "Leinster Senior Football Champions" (PDF). Leinster GAA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 28 September 2011.
  4. ^ "The Munster Football Championships", Munster Express, 27 November 1897, p.8
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