1920 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

The 1920 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 34th staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition.[1][2][3]

1920 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning teamTipperary (4th win)
CaptainJerry Shelly
All-Ireland Finalists
Losing teamDublin
CaptainP McDonnell
Provincial Champions
MunsterTipperary
LeinsterDublin
UlsterCavan
ConnachtMayo
Championship statistics
1919
1921

In the Leinster final Dublin ended Kildare's period as All Ireland champions.

The championship was disrupted by the ongoing Irish War of Independence, including the events of Bloody Sunday in November 1920, when British forces killed fourteen people at a match between Dublin and Tipperary at Croke Park in Dublin.[4] Because Dublin and Tipperary were the eventual finalists, it is often incorrectly assumed that this was the All-Ireland final, but it was actually a challenge match held to raise funds for the Republican Prisoners Dependents Fund.[5] In fact, Tipperary did not play their semi-final match until 1922, 19 months after Dublin won the first semi-final.[4]

The Final was played in June 1922. Tipperary beat Dublin by 1-6 to 1-2.[4]

100 years later, the same four teams appeared in the semi-finals, with Cavan also playing Dublin and Mayo also playing Tipperary, confirmed on the weekend of the centenary of Bloody Sunday with the championship delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic.[6]

Provincial championships

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Leitrim3-3 – 0-2Roscommon

Galway0-3 – 2-4Mayo

Sligo1-7 – 0-2Leitrim

Mayo2-3 – 1-4Sligo
Attendance: 2,000
Kilkenny0-3 – 2-1Laois

Westmeath2-2 – 2-1Longford

Wicklow1-7 – 3-2Carlow

Meath0-1 – 1-4Louth

Westmeath0-6 – 0-3Louth

Laois3-5 – 2-2Carlow

Dublin3-3 – 0-3Offaly

Kildare2-6 – 1-2Wexford

Dublin2-6 – 0-1Laois

Kildare1-5 – 0-1Westmeath

Dublin1-3 – 0-3Kildare
Paddy Carey 1-0, Bill Robbins (0-1f), Frank Burke, Stephen Synott 0-1 each Joyce Conlan 0-2 and Albert O'Neill 0-1f
Referee: PD Breen (Wexford)
Waterford3-2– 1-1Limerick

Clare1-2– 1-2Tipperary
Referee: P. Parfrey ( C )

Clare0-2– 0-2
A.E.T.
Tipperary

Tipperary1-7 – 0-1Clare
Referee: W. Benn ( T )

Kerry2-6 – 0-4Cork

Tipperary3-4 – 0-1Waterford
Referee: W. Walsh (Waterford)

Tipperary2-2 – 0-2Kerry
Referee: W. Walsh (Waterford)
Down0-10 – 0-5Antrim

Armagh2-1 – 0-0Tyrone

Cavan2-2 – 1-3Monaghan

Derry0-11 – 0-7Donegal

Cavan8-3 – 2-1Fermanagh

Armagh0-4 – 0-3Down

Cavan3-4 – 0-1Derry

Cavan4-6 – 1-4Armagh

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

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Bracket

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Semi-Finals Final
      
  Dublin 3-06
  Cavan 1-03
  Dublin 1-02
  Tipperary 1-06
  Tipperary 1-05
  Mayo 1-00
Dublin3-6 – 1-3Cavan

Tipperary1-5 – 1-0Mayo

Tipperary1-6 – 1-2Dublin
Powell (1–03), Vaughan (0–02) & McCarthy (0–01). Report Frank Burke (1-00), McDonnell (0-01) & S Synott (0-01).
Attendance: 17,000
Referee: W. Walsh (Waterford)

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Football Results 1911 - 1940". Gaelic Athletic Association. Archived from the original on 21 March 2012. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d "All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Results 1887-2010". HoganStand.com. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
  3. ^ a b "Leinster Senior Football Champions" (PDF). Leinster GAA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
  4. ^ a b c Doyle, Siobhán (19 November 2020). "The story of Bloody Sunday and Tipperary football's rise and fall". RTÉ.
  5. ^ Doyle, Siobhán (18 November 1920). "Debunking some of the myths around Bloody Sunday". RTÉ.
  6. ^ "Repeat of 1920 All-Ireland semi-finals confirmed on weekend of Bloody Sunday commemoration". The42. 22 November 2020. Retrieved 22 November 2020.