1889 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

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1889 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning teamTipperary (1st win)
All-Ireland Finalists
Losing teamLaois
Provincial Champions
MunsterTipperary
LeinsterLaois
UlsterNot played
ConnachtNot played
Championship statistics
1888
1890

The 1889 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the third staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. 1887 All Ireland champions Limerick were not part of the Munster championship. Tipperary were the champions.

Format

Only two provincial championship were played: Leinster and Munster. The winners met in the All-Ireland final.

Representative clubs

From 1887 until 1891 the club champions represented the whole county.

County Club
Cork Midleton
Kerry Laune Rangers
Louth Newtown Blues
Laois (Queen's County) Maryborough
Tipperary Bohercrowe

Results

Leinster

Dublin
Attendance: 8,000
Referee: PR Cleary

Kilkenny

Laois

Wicklow

The Wicklow–Laois game was later ordered to be played again, and so the final had to be played again as well.


Wicklow
Attendance: 2,000
Referee: P Brown

Louth
Attendance: 2,000
Referee: JJ Reilly

Munster

Clare

Waterford

Kerry
Referee: T. R. Cleary

Cork
Referee: E Moynihan

All-Ireland final

Tipperary3-6 - 0-0Laois
Attendance: 1,500
Referee: M. O'Driscoll

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

  • Tipperary win the first All Ireland title.

References