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1916 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

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1916 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning teamWexford (3rd win)
CaptainSeán O'Kennedy
All-Ireland Finalists
Losing teamMayo
CaptainD.F. Courell
Provincial Champions
MunsterCork
LeinsterWexford
UlsterMonaghan
ConnachtMayo
Championship statistics
1915
1917

The 1916 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 30th staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Wexford won the second title of their four-in-a-row.[1][2][3]

Results

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Leitrim2-2 – 0-3Sligo

Leitrim0-2 – 1-2Roscommon

Mayo2-6 – 2-2Galway

Mayo1-5 – 0-3Roscommon
Attendance: 4,000
Preliminary Round
Meath1-2 – 0-4Laois

Quarter-Final
Kilkenny2-2 – 0-5Westmeath

Quarter-Final
Kildare3-3 – 1-4Louth

Quarter-Final
WexfordWexford win in a walkoverDublin

Semi-Final
Kildare1-6 - 1-3Kilkenny

Semi-Final
Wexford6-5 – 1-2Meath

Final
Wexford1-7 – 1-0Kildare
Attendance: 7,000
Referee: Patrick Dunphy (Laois)
Kerry2-2 – 0-1Tipperary
Referee: T. Irwin (Cork)

Kerry withdrew from the Munster Championship after this victory.[4]


Cork4-3 – 2-4Waterford

Clare3-1 – 0-0Limerick

Cork2-2 – 1-4Clare
AntrimW – LArmagh

Cavan2-3 – 0-1Fermanagh

Monaghan2-5 – 0-1Derry

Monaghan4-3 – 1-5Cavan

Antrim1-3 – 1-0Down

Monaghan2-3 – 0-2Antrim
Wexford0-9 – 1-1Monaghan

Mayo1-2 – 0-2Cork

Cork made an objection and a replay was ordered.


Mayo1-2 – 1-1Cork

Wexford3-4 – 1-2Mayo
Attendance: 3,000
Referee: Pat Dunphy (Laois)

Championship statistics

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Miscellaneous

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  • Mayo play in their first All Ireland final but are beaten by Wexford.

References

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  1. ^ "Football Results 1911 - 1940 | the Official Website of the GAA". Archived from the original on 21 March 2012. Retrieved 7 July 2011.
  2. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 7 July 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 28 September 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ^ "1916". Archived from the original on 15 February 2016. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
  5. ^ "Munster Championship", Meath Chronicle, 5 August 1916, p. 1
  6. ^ Cork's Lucky Double, Irish Independent, 4 September 1916, p. 5