1890 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

The 1890 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the fourth staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Previous years All Irelnad champions Tipperary didn't take part in the Munster championship cancelled game against Clare. Cork were the champions.[1][2]

1890 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning teamCork (1st win)
CaptainJim Power
All-Ireland Finalists
Losing teamWexford
Provincial Champions
MunsterCork
LeinsterWexford
UlsterArmagh
ConnachtGalway
Championship statistics
1889
1891

Representative clubs

From 1887 until 1891 the club champions represented the whole county.

County Club
Armagh Armagh Harps
Cork Midleton
Dublin Isle of the Sea
Galway
Kerry Laune Rangers GAA
Limerick St. Patricks [3]
Tyrone
Wexford Blues & Whites

Results

Connacht Championship

Galway were the only entrants, so they received a bye to the All-Ireland semi-final.

Munster Championship

Clare0-0 - 0-0Tipperary

Kerry0-9 - 0-0Limerick

Cork0-6 - 0-0Waterford

Kerryw/o - scr.Clare

Cork0-0 - 0-0
Unfinished. The ball burst after 57mins of play [4]
Kerry

Cork1-4 - 0-1Kerry

Leinster Championship

Dublin6-11 - 0-2Westmeath

Wexford0-2 - 0-2Kilkenny

Wexford0-0 - 0-0Kildare

Laois0-5 - 0-0Kildare

Laois0-1 - 2-8Dublin
Referee: T Lee (Dublin)

Wexford0-3 - 0-2Louth

Wexford1-3 - 1-2Dublin

Ulster Championship

Armagh3-7 - 0-1Antrim
Referee: James Weldon

Armagh2-8 - 1-2Tyrone
Blaris, Lisburn

All-Ireland Championship

Cork1-15 - 0-0Armagh
Clonturk

Wexfordw/o - scr.Galway

Cork2-4 - 0-1Wexford
Attendance: 1,000
Referee: J.J. Kenny (Dublin)

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

  • Cork won both the Munster and All Ireland titles for the first time. There were Double All Ireland champions in both football and hurling it happened again 100 years later too in 1990.

References

  1. "FOOTBALL RESULTS 1887 - 1910". Archived from the original on 21 March 2012. Retrieved 3 July 2011.
  2. "All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Results 1887-2010". Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 3 July 2011.
  3. "Laune Ranger 1890". 3 February 2014. Archived from the original on 21 August 2020.
  4. Irish Examiner 1841-current, Monday, September 29, 1890; Page: 3
  5. "The Munster Championships", The Kerry Sentinel, 1 October 1890, p.3
  6. "The Football Championship of Munster", The Kerry Sentinel, 22 October 1890, p.3
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