The 1932–33 National Football League was the 6th staging of the National Football League, a Gaelic football tournament for the Gaelic Athletic Association county teams of Ireland, held in 1932 and 1933.
League details | |
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Dates | April 1932 – September 1933 |
League champions | |
Winners | Meath (1st win) |
Captain | Bill Shaw |
League runners-up | |
Runners-up | Cavan |
Captain | Jim Smith |
← 1931–32 1933–34 → |
Meath won the league, with captain Bill Shaw (Summerhill) scoring a last-minute point to win the final.[1][2][3][4]
Format
editThere were three divisions – Western, 'A', and Midland. The winners of the Western Division met the winners of Division 'A' in the semi-final, while the winners of the Midland Division proceeded to the final.[5]
There was also a Special Division, but the winners of this did not progress to the knockout stages.[6]
Main League
editMidland Division
editResults
editLouth and Armagh both withdrew.[7]
4 December 1932 Round 3 | Cavan | 1-8 — 0-5 | Westmeath | Breffni Park, Cavan[10] |
Table
editTeam | Pld | W | D | L | Pts | Status |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cavan | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | Qualified for Final |
Westmeath | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
Longford | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Division 'A'
editResults
edit30 October 1932 Round 1 | Kerry | 3-3 — 1-3 | Laois | Portlaoise[11] |
13 November 1932 Round 1 | Kerry | 0-9 — 0-7 | Dublin | Austin Stack Park, Tralee[12] |
19 February 1933 Round 2 | Meath | 1-8 — 0-6 | Laois | Portlaoise[14] |
5 March 1933 Round 3 | Dublin | 2-8 — 0-6 | Laois | Croke Park, Dublin[15] |
Table
editTeam | Pld | W | D | L | Pts | Status |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Meath | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | Qualified for Semi-Final |
Kerry | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | |
Dublin | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
Laois | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
Western Division
editMayo won, ahead of Sligo, Galway, Leitrim and Roscommon.
Results
edit2 April 1933 Round | Mayo | 4-9 — 1-5 | Leitrim | Carrick-on-Shannon[17] |
23 April 1933 Round | Sligo | 3-6 — 2-4 | Leitrim | Carrick-on-Shannon[18] |
Finals
editSpecial Division
editSpecial Division (Eastern Section)
editSpecial Division (Southern Section)
editCork, Waterford, Clare, Limerick
Final
editReferences
edit- ^ "Bill Shaw, Summerhill". Archived from the original on 15 July 2015. Retrieved 12 July 2015.
- ^ GAA Final Teams Archived 2015-07-13 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "GAA Archive 1933". Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
- ^ Ganlysays, Teresa (28 January 2019). "1933". Mayo GAA Blog. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
- ^ "Puzzling Form in National Football League", Irish Independent, 30/11/1932. p.13
- ^ "Problems of the Football Leagues", Irish Press, 18/11/1932, p. 8
- ^ "Gaelic Games from far and near", Irish Press, 02/11/1932, p. 8
- ^ "Cavan's decisive victory", The Cork Examiner, 17/10/1932, p. 10,
- ^ "National Football League", The Cork Examiner, 21/11/1932, p. 10,
- ^ "Cavan rise to it", The Irish Press, 05/12/1932, p. 8,
- ^ "Kerry succeed", The Kerryman, 05/11/1932, p. 10,
- ^ "Kerry again defeat Dublin", The Kerryman, 19/11/1932, p. 3,
- ^ "Dublin get a shock at Navan", The Irish Press, 28/11/1932, p. 8,
- ^ "National Football League", The Cork Examiner, 21/02/1933, p. 10,
- ^ "All Hurling and Football Results for 1933", The Irish Press, 21/12/1933, p. 10,
- ^ "All Hurling and Football Results for 1933", The Irish Press, 21/12/1933, p. 10,
- ^ "All Hurling and Football Results for 1933", The Irish Press, 21/12/1933, p. 10,
- ^ "All Hurling and Football Results for 1933", The Irish Press, 21/12/1933, p. 10,
- ^ "All Hurling and Football Results for 1933", The Irish Press, 21/12/1933, p. 10,
- ^ "All Hurling and Football Results for 1933", The Irish Press, 21/12/1933, p. 10,
- ^ "For The Record, A History of the National Football and Hurling League Finals", Tom Morrison, Collins Press, 2002, ISBN 9781903464151
- ^ "Thrills at Glin", The Irish Press, 23 January 1933, p. 19,
- ^ "All Hurling and Football Results for 1933", The Irish Press, 21/12/1933, p. 10,