1969–70 National Football League (Ireland)

1969–70 National Football League
League details
Dates	October 1969 – 10 May 1970
League champions
Winners	Mayo (10th win)
Captain	Johnny Carey
League runners-up
Runners-up	Down
Captain	Tom O'Hare
← 1968–69 1970–71 →

The 1969–70 National Football League was the 39th staging of the National Football League (NFL), an annual Gaelic football tournament for the Gaelic Athletic Association county teams of Ireland.

Mayo beat Down in the final.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Results

Semi-Finals

Down v Kildare

12 April 1970

Down	1-11 – 2-3	Kildare

Croke Park, Dublin^[5]
Attendance: 11,101

Mayo v Derry

19 April 1970

Mayo	1-11 – 2-7	Derry

Croke Park, Dublin^[6]

Finals

Mayo v Down

10 May 1970
Final

Mayo	4-7 – 0-10	Down
JJ Cribben 2-1; J Corcoran 0-4; T Fitzgerald, J Gibbons 1-0 each; W McGee, J Langan 0-1 each

Croke Park, Dublin
Attendance: 32,042^[7]
Referee: John Moloney (Tipperary)^[8]

References

↑ GAA Final Teams
↑ GAA Archive 1970
↑ Mayo GAA Blog
↑ "Mayo’s 1970 National Football League win remembered" - Mayo News
↑ "Down cover supreme as Kildare go out of race", Irish Independent, 13/04/1970, p.11
↑ "Results at a glance", Irish Press, 20/04/1970, p.14
↑ "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

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Finals Records and statistics Winning players

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