1889 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

1889 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning team Tipperary (1st win)
Provincial Champions
Munster Tipperary
Leinster Queen's County
Championship statistics
1888
1890

The 1889 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the third staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. 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
Queen's County (Laois) Maryborough
Tipperary Bohercrowe

Results

Leinster

25 August 1889
Quarter-final
Louth 2–7 – 0–6 Dublin
Drogheda
Attendance: 8,000
Referee: PR Cleary

15 September 1889
Semi-final
Louth w/o – scr. Kilkenny

15 September 1889
Semi-final
Wicklow w/o - scr. Queen's County

15 September 1889
Final
Louth 1–7 – 1–4 Wicklow

The Wicklow-Queen's County game was later ordered to be played again, and so the final had to be played again as well.


13 October 1889
Semi-final, Refixed
Queen's County 0–9 – 0–4 Wicklow
Inchicore
Attendance: 2,000
Referee: P Brown

13 October 1889
Final, Refixed
Queen's County 0-3 – 0–2 Louth
Inchicore
Attendance: 2,000
Referee: JJ Reilly

Munster

29 March 1889
Quarter-final
Tipperary w/o – scr. Clare

29 March 1889
Semi-final
Tipperary W - L Waterford

28 July 1889
Semi-final
Cork 0-2 – 0-1 Kerry

6 October 1889
Final
Tipperary 1-2 – 0-3 Cork
Mallow
Referee: E Moynihan

All-Ireland Final

20 October 1889
Tipperary 3-6 - 0-0 Queen's County
Inchicore
Attendance: 1,500

References

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