1958–59 National Football League (Ireland)

1958–59 National Football League
League details
Dates	October 1958 – 10 May 1959
League champions
Winners	Kerry (5th win)
Captain	John Dowling
League runners-up
Runners-up	Derry
Captain	Jim McKeever^[1]
Other division winners
Division 2	Leitrim
← 1957–58 1959–60 →

The 1958–59 National Football League was the 28th staging of the National Football League (NFL), an annual Gaelic football tournament for the Gaelic Athletic Association county teams of Ireland.

Leitrim reached their first and only NFL semi-final, and Derry reached their first final, where they lost to Kerry.^[2]^[3]

Group stage

Division IV

Final

22 March 1959 Final	Kerry	5-15 — 1-2	Waterford	Clonmel^[4]

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	Pts	Status
Kerry	4	3	1	0	7	Advance to Knockout Phase
Carlow	4	2	2	0	6
Cork	4	2	0	2	4
Kildare	4	1	1	2	3
Wexford	4	0	0	4	0

^[5]

Group B

Team	Pld	W	L	Pts
Waterford	3	3	0	6
Clare	3	2	1	4
Tipperary	3	1	2	2
Kilkenny	3	0	3	0

Knockout stage

Semi-Finals

Derry v Leitrim

12 April 1959

Derry	3-7 – 1-6	Leitrim

Croke Park, Dublin^[6]

Kerry v Offaly

19 April 1959

Kerry	3-8 – 0-5	Offaly

Croke Park, Dublin

Final

Kerry v Derry

10 May 1959

Kerry	2-8 – 1-8	Derry
Jim Brosnan 1-1; Tom Long 1-0; Dan McAuliffe 0-3; Paudie Sheehy 0-2; Dave Geaney, John Dowling 0-1 each

Croke Park, Dublin
Attendance: 32,405^[7]
Referee: M McArdle (Louth)^[8]

References

↑ "For The Record, A History of the National Football and Hurling League Finals", Tom Morrison, Collins Press, 2002, ISBN 9781903464151
↑ GAA Final Teams
↑ Terrace talk 1959
↑ http://www.terracetalk.com/kerry-football/year/1959/League
↑ "Placings in Football League", Irish Independent, 2 March 1959, p.11
↑ "Derry's easy passage to final", Irish Independent, 13 April 1959, p. 13
↑ "For The Record, A History of the National Football and Hurling League Finals", Tom Morrison, Collins Press, 2002, ISBN 9781903464151
↑ "For The Record, A History of the National Football and Hurling League Finals", Tom Morrison, Collins Press, 2002, ISBN 9781903464151

External links

Kerry Win Final Special (1959) on YouTube, a British Pathé newsreel of the final

Kerry – 1959 National Football League Champions (5th title)

1 J. Culloty 2 J. O'Shea 3 Jack Dowling 4 T. Lyons 5 Seán Murphy 6 K. Coffey 7 M. O'Dwyer 8 Mick O'Connell (C) 9 Séamus Murphy 10 D. McAuliffe 11 T. Long 12 P. Sheehy 13 D. Geaney 14 John Dowling 15 T. Lyne

National Football Leagues

Seasons	1925–26 1926–27 1927–28 1928–29 1929–30 1930–31 1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44 1944–45 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Finals Records and statistics Winning players

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