1918 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

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1918 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning teamWexford (5th win)
All-Ireland Finalists
Losing teamTipperary
Provincial Champions
MunsterTipperary
LeinsterWexford
UlsterCavan
ConnachtMayo
Championship statistics
1917
1919

The 1918 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 32nd staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Wexford won a record fourth title in a row, an achievement which had never been completed.[1][2][3]

Results

Connacht Senior Football Championship

Roscommon0-5 – 1-4Leitrim

Mayo1-6 – 1-0Sligo

Galway1-5 – 1-0Leitrim

Mayo0-4 – 0-1Galway

Leinster Senior Football Championship

Preliminary Round
Westmeath3-3 – 0-3Longford

Preliminary Round
Louth1-4 – 0-3Meath

Preliminary Round
Wexford2-2 – 0-3Laois

Quarter-Final
Carlow4-3 – 0-1Wicklow
Ferns

Quarter-Final
Wexford2-6 – 0-1Kilkenny

Quarter-Final
Westmeath4-4 – 1-2Offaly

Quarter-Final
Louth3-5 – 3-3Dublin
Report


Semi-Final
Wexford5-8 – 2-2Carlow

Semi-Final
Kildare0-1 – 0-7Louth
Attendance: 5,000 - 6,000

Final
Wexford2-5 – 1-4Louth
Attendance: 10,000

Munster Senior Football Championship

Waterfordwon – lostLimerick

Tipperary1-5 – 0-2Cork
Referee: A. Quillinan (Limerick)

Tipperary4-4 – 0-0Waterford

Kerry5-3 – 1-3Clare

Tipperary1-1 – 0-1Kerry
Referee: M. Mehigan ( C )

Ulster Senior Football Championship

Antrim4-1 – 2-4Derry

Armagh0-5 – 0-4Down

Cavan1-4 – 1-2Fermanagh

Monaghan4-4 – 1-0Tyrone

Antrim1-2 – 0-3Monaghan

Cavan2-4 – 0-0Armagh
Attendance: 3,000

Cavan3-2 – 0-0Antrim

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

By the time the semi-final was to be played, the Leinster championship was not finished, so Louth were nominated to represent Leinster. When Wexford beat Louth in the Leinster final, they were given Louth's place in the All-Ireland final.

Louth2-4 – 0-4Cavan

Tipperary2-2 – 1-4Mayo
Referee: J. McGrath

Wexford0-5 – 0-4Tipperary
Attendance: 12,000
Referee: Patrick Dunphy (Laois)

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

  • Due to Spanish flu most games were delayed.
  • Wexford become the first county to win the Leinster football title for the sixth year in a row and the All Ireland football title for the fourth year in a row.

Roll of Honour

  • Dublin - 11 (1908)
  • Wexford - 5 (1918)
  • Kerry - 5 (1914)
  • Tipperary - 3 (1900)
  • Limerick - 2 (1896)
  • Cork - 2 (1911)
  • Louth - 2 (1912)
  • Kildare - 1 (1905)

References

  1. ^ "Football Results 1911 - 1940 | the Official Website of the GAA". Archived from the original on 21 March 2012. Retrieved 7 July 2011.
  2. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 7 July 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 28 September 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)