1957 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
(Redirected from All-Ireland Senior Football Championship 1957)
The 1957 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 71st staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition.
| All-Ireland Champions | |
|---|---|
| Winning team | Louth (3rd win) |
| Captain | Dermot O'Brien |
| Manager | Jim "Sogger" Quigley |
| All-Ireland Finalists | |
| Losing team | Cork |
| Captain | Nealie Duggan |
| Provincial Champions | |
| Munster | Cork |
| Leinster | Louth |
| Ulster | Tyrone |
| Connacht | Galway |
| Championship statistics | |
← 1956 1958 → | |
Cork ended Galway's spell a All Ireland champions by just a point in the All Ireland semi-final.
Results edit
Connacht Senior Football Championship edit
| Roscommon | 0-7 – 0-6 | Mayo |
|---|---|---|
| M McLoughlin (0-2), PJ Downey (0-2), J O’Connell (0-1). Sub: M Stewart (0-1) |
Attendance: 7,560
Connacht Final edit
Leinster Senior Football Championship edit
Leinster Final edit
 Louth | 2-9 – 1-7 |  Dublin |
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| Jim McDonnell 2-2, Kevin Beahan 0-4f, Dermot O'Brien, Sean Cunningham, Frank Lynch 0-1 each | Des Ferguson 1-1, Ollie Freaney 0-4f, Paddy Downey and Cathal O'Leary 0-1 each |
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Munster Senior Football Championship edit
| Waterford | 2-5 – 0-10 | Kerry |
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| M. O'Connell (0-1), P. Sheehy (0-1), N. Fitzgerald (0-3), T. Lyne (0-2), P. Fitzgerald (0-1), T. Collins (0-1) & D. McAuliffe (0-1). |
| Cork | 1-7 – 0-3 | Clare |
|---|---|---|
| J. Creedon (0-1), N. Duggan (0-1), T. Furlong (1-1), T. Ryan (0-1), R. Nutty (1-0) & D. Kelleher (0-3). |
Munster Final edit
| Cork | 0-16 – 1-2 | Waterford |
|---|---|---|
| N. Fitzgerald (0-3), T. Furlong (0-2), E. Goulding (0-5), N. Duggan (0-5) & Sub T. Ryan (0-1). |
Ulster Senior Football Championship edit
Ulster Final edit
All-Ireland Senior Football Championship edit
| Cork | 2-4 – 0-9 | Galway |
|---|---|---|
| E. Ryan (0-2), N. Fitzgerald (1-0), E. Goulding (0-1), T. Furlong (1-0) & N. Duggan (0-2). |
Attendance: 57,066
All Ireland Final edit
| Louth | 1-9 – 1-7 | Cork |
|---|---|---|
| Seán Cunningham (1-1), Kevin Beahan (0-3), Jim Roe (0-3), Séamus O'Donnell (0-1), Dan O'Neill (0-1) | N. Fitzgerald (0-3), T. Furlong (1-1), N. Duggan (0-1) & D. Kelleher (0-3) |
Championship statistics edit
Miscellaneous edit
- Wicklow record their first ever win over Meath.
- Waterford record their first win over Kerry since 1911.
- The Connacht final between Galway and Leitrim was the first game ever played at the new Pearse Stadium, in Galway named after both brothers of the 1916 rising Padraic Pearse and William Pearse.
- Louth win the All Ireland title for the first time since 1912.
- There were a number of first-time championship meetings: The All Ireland football semi-final between Louth and Tyrone and the All Ireland final between Louth and Cork.
References edit
- ^ "Football Results 1941 - 1970 | the Official Website of the GAA". Archived from the original on 21 March 2012. Retrieved 23 July 2011.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 23 July 2011.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 28 September 2011.
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