The 1939 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 53rd staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Kerry were the winners.[1][2][3]
2 Preliminary Rounds instead of usual 1. Involved were Longford, Carlow, Westmeath & Wicklow of course the winners qualified for a Quarter-Final to meet the stronger teams.
Munster Championship format change[]
In 1939 Kerry were given a bye to the Munster final, Preliminary Round was just a lone match between Cork vs Waterford, The winners of the game played in the Quarter finals along with Tipperary, Limerick and Clare the winners of the game played in a lone Semi final. The format was previously used in 1933 and was used again in 1941.
All Ireland Semi Finals system[]
The All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was run on a provincial basis as usual in every 3rd year in rotation, with the four winners from Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster advancing to the All-Ireland semi-finals. The draw for these games was as follows:
Murt Kelly (0-2), Johnny Walsh (0-1), Dan Spring (2-1) & Tim Landers (0-1).
Croke Park, Dublin
Attendance: 46,828
Referee: J Flaherty (Offaly)
Championship statistics[]
Miscellaneous[]
Meath win their second Leinster Title first since 1895.
Kerry are now one behind Dublin with All Ireland titles.
There were a number of first-time championship meetings; There were 2 first time championship meetings in the All Ireland Series at first in the semi-final stage a first meeting between Meath vs Cavan while the second was All Ireland final was the first championship meeting of Kerry vs Meath.
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