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)
Provincial Champions
MunsterTipperary
LeinsterDublin
UlsterCavan
ConnachtMayo
Championship statistics
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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

Connacht Senior Football Championship
Leitrim3-3 – 0-2Roscommon
Galway0-3 – 2-4Mayo
Sligo1-7 – 0-2Leitrim
Mayo2-3 – 1-4Sligo
Attendance: 2,000

Leinster Senior Football Championship
Kilkenny0-3 – 2-1Laois
Westmeath2-2 – 2-1Longford
Wicklow1-7 – 3-2Carlow
Meath0-1 – 1-4Louth
Westmeath0-6 – 0-3Louth
Laois3-5 – 2-2Carlow
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Dublin3-3 – 0-3Offaly
Maryboro
Kildare2-6 – 1-2Wexford
Dublin2-6 – 0-1Laois
Kildare1-5 – 0-1Westmeath
Dublin1-3 – 0-3Kildare
Referee: PD Breen (Wexford)

Munster Senior Football Championship
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)

Ulster Senior Football Championship
Down0-10 – 0-5Antrim
Armagh2-1 – 0-0Tyrone
Cavan2-2 – 1-3Monaghan
Derry0-11 – 0-7Donegal
Cavan8-3 – 2-1Fermanagh
Wattlebridge
Armagh0-4 – 0-3Down
Cavan3-4 – 0-1Derry
Cavan4-6 – 1-4Armagh

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

Bracket
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
Main article: 1920 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
Tipperary1-6 – 1-2Dublin
Report
Attendance: 17,000
Referee: W. Walsh (Waterford)

References
  1. "Football Results 1911 - 1940". Gaelic Athletic Association. Archived from the original on 2012-03-21. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
  2. "All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Results 1887-2010". HoganStand.com. Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
  3. "Leinster Senior Football Champions" (PDF). Leinster GAA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-09-28. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
  4. 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.
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