1903 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

1903 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning team Kerry (1st win)
Provincial Champions
Munster Kerry
Leinster Kildare
Ulster Cavan
Connacht Mayo
Championship statistics
1902
1904

The 1903 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 17th staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Kerry won their first football All-Ireland.[1][2][3]

Format

The four provincial championships are played as usual. The four champions play in the "Home" championship, with the winners of the Home final going on to face London in the All-Ireland final.

Results

Connacht

1903
Final
Mayo 3-6 – 0-1 Roscommon

Leinster

1903
Quarter-Final
Louth 1-6 – 0-1 Wexford
Jones Road, Dublin

21 August 1904
Quarter-Final
Offaly 0-2 – 1-5 Laois
Maryboro
Referee: J McCarthy

11 December 1904
Final
Kildare 1-2 – 0-5 Kilkenny

26 February 1905
Final Replay
Kildare 1-6 – 1-5 Kilkenny

A replay was ordered due to a disputed disallowed Kilkenny point.


4 June 1905
Final, Second Replay
Kildare 0-9 – 0-1 Kilkenny
Jones' Road, Dublin

Munster

13 June 1904
Quarter-Final
Kerry 4-8 – 0-3 Waterford

19 June 1904
Semi-Final
Cork 1-5 – 0-4 Tipperary
Killmallock

7 August 1904
Semi-Final
Kerry 2-7 – 2-0 Clare

30 October 1904
Final
Kerry 1-7 – 0-4 Cork

Ulster

1903
Final
Cavan 0-5 – 0-5 Armagh

1903
Final Replay
Cavan 0-5 – 0-5 Armagh

1903
Final, Second Replay
Cavan 0-8 – 0-4 Armagh

All-Ireland Championship

07 May 1905
Home Semi-Final
Kerry 2-7 – 0-4 Mayo

18 June 1905
Home Semi-Final
Kildare 0-8 – 0-0 Cavan
Jones' Road, Dublin

23 July 1905
Home Final
Kerry 1-4 – 1-3
Unfinished
Kildare

Unfinished game - replay ordered.


27 August 1905
Home Final Replay
Kerry 0-7 – 1-4 Kildare

15 October 1905
Home Final, Second Replay
Kerry 0-8 – 0-2 Kildare

12 November 1905
Final
Kerry 0-11 – 0-3 London
Jones' Road, Dublin
Attendance: 10,000

References

  1. Cork Examiner; 14/06/1904
  2. Freemans Journal; 08/08/1904
  3. Freemans Journal; 31/10/1904
  4. Cork Examiner; 08/05/1905