1888 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

The 1888 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was unfinished owing to the American Invasion Tour, an unsuccessful attempt to raise funds for a revival of the Tailteann Games.[1]

1888 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Provincial Champions
MunsterTipperary
LeinsterKilkenny
UlsterMonaghan
Championship statistics
← 1887
1889 →

The 1888 provincial championships had been completed (Tipperary, Kilkenny and Monaghan winning them; no Connacht teams entered) but after the Invasion tour returned, the All-Ireland semi-final and final were not played.[2]

Results

Leinster
Dublin1–6 – 0–1Kildare
Referee: JJ Reilly
Kilkenny1–3 – 0–0Queen's County
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: GF Moore
Wicklow0–2 – 0–1Wexford
Attendance: 8,000
Referee: JJ Reilly

Wicklow used illegal players, and the game was stopped by a pitch invasion with ten minutes to go, so a replay was ordered.

Wexford1–3 – 0–2Wicklow
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: JP Cox
Louth2–4 – 0–0Meath
Bryanstown
Referee: JJ O'Reilly
Kilkenny2-1 – 0–3Louth
Referee: JJ Cullen
Wexford0–4 – 0–3Dublin
Referee: T Harrington
Kilkenny1–4 – 0–2Wexford
New Ross

Munster
Tipperary0-2 – 0-2Cork
Attendance: 12,000
Referee: T.O'Riordan
Clare1-3 – 1-0Limerick
Referee: J Callinan

Limerick were awarded the game due to Clare playing illegal players.

Tipperary0-3 – 0-1Waterford
Referee: T Harrington
Tipperaryw/o – scr.Limerick

Ulster
Monaghan0–2 – 0–2Cavan

Neither team could field the full 21 players, so 15-a-side was agreed.

Monaghan0–3 – 0–0Cavan
Bryanstown, Co. Meath

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous
  • No All Ireland series due to US tour.

Sligo and Mayo played a draw in the Connacht final. There is no record of a replay.

References
  1. "The 1888 American Invasion Tour". Archived from the original on 2012-08-02. Retrieved 2011-07-02.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2011-07-03.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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