1889 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

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.

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

Format edit

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

Representative clubs edit

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 edit

Leinster edit

Louth2–7 – 0–6Dublin
Attendance: 8,000
Referee: PR Cleary

Louthw/o – scr.Kilkenny

Wickloww/o - scr.Laois

Louth1–7 – 1–4Wicklow

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


Laois0–9 – 0–4Wicklow
Attendance: 2,000
Referee: P Brown

Laois0-3 – 0–2Louth
Attendance: 2,000
Referee: JJ Reilly

Munster edit

Tipperaryw/o – scr.Clare

TipperaryW - LWaterford

Cork0-2 – 0-1Kerry
Referee: T. R. Cleary

Tipperary1-2 – 0-3Cork
Referee: E Moynihan

All-Ireland final edit

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

Championship statistics edit

Miscellaneous edit

  • Tipperary win the first All Ireland title.

References edit