The 1935–36 National Football League was the 9th staging of the National Football League, a Gaelic football tournament for the Gaelic Athletic Association county teams of Ireland.
League details | |
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Dates | 13 October 1935 – 19 April 1936 |
League champions | |
Winners | Mayo (3rd win) |
Captain | Gerald Courell |
← 1934–35 1936–37 → |
Mayo won the league for the third year in a row. There was no final, the league being decided on points.[1][2][3]
Format edit
This was the first NFL season not to be decided with a knockout final: the team with the most points were winners. This would not happen again until 2020, when the league finals were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Results edit
Table edit
Mayo finished first with 12 points from eight games. They had wins over Kildare, Louth, Laois, Galway, Tipperary and Cavan, and lost to Dublin and Meath.
Team | Pld | W | D | L | Pts |
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Mayo | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 12 |
Dublin | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 10 |
Louth | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 10 |
Cavan | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 10 |
Laois | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 10 |
Meath | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 7 |
Galway | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 7 |
Kildare | 8 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 2 |
Tipperary | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
Leinster Football League edit
League Stage edit
13 October 1935 1 | Wexford | 3-4 — 1-3 | Carlow | Muine Bheag[4] |
10 November 1935 2 | Longford | 1-6 — 0-3 | Wexford | Enniscorthy[6] |
8 December 1935 4 | Offaly | 3-2 — 1-3 | Wexford | Wexford Park[11] |
Play-Off edit
Final Table edit
Team | Pld | W | D | L | Pts | Status |
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Offaly | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | Leinster Football League Champions |
Longford | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | |
Wexford | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | |
Wicklow | 5 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | |
Carlow | 5 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
References edit
- ^ Mayo results archive
- ^ GAA Final Teams
- ^ [1][permanent dead link]
- ^ "Leinster Football League", Nationalist and Leinster Times, 19 October 1935, p. 8,
- ^ "Leinster League", The Evening Herald, 28 October 1935, p. 4,
- ^ "Leinster Football League", The Evening Herald, 11 November 1935, p. 8,
- ^ "Wicklow's Heavy Defeat", The Evening Herald, 11 November 1935, p. 8,
- ^ "Leinster Football League", The Evening Herald, 25 November 1935, p. 8,
- ^ "Longford's Surprise", The Evening Herald, 25 November 1935, p. 8,
- ^ "Longford's Surprise", The Irish Independent, 9 December 1935, p. 12,
- ^ "Wexford Lose Lead", The Irish Independent, 9 December 1935, p. 12,
- ^ "Offaly's Decisive Victory", Offaly Independent, 14 March 1936, p. 2,
- ^ "Longford's Victory", Evening Herald, 9 March 1936, p. 8,
- ^ "Offaly Champions", The Evening Herald, 30 March 1936, p. 8,