1971 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

1971 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning team Offaly (1st win)
Captain Willie Bryan
Provincial Champions
Munster Cork
Leinster Offaly
Ulster Down
Connacht Galway
Championship statistics
Player of the Year Eugene Mulligan (Offaly)
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The 1971 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was played from May to September, 1971. Offaly defeated Galway by three points to win their first ever All-Ireland title

Results

Connacht

13 June 1971
Quarter-Final
Mayo 5-7 – 2-4 Leitrim

20 June 1971
Semi-Final
Sligo 0-10 – 1-5 Roscommon

27 June 1971
Semi-Final
Galway 1-7 – 0-7 Mayo

11 July 1971
Final
Galway 2-15 – 2-15 Sligo
Castlebar
Attendance: 19,764

25 July 1971
Final Replay
Galway 1-17 – 3-10 Sligo
Castlebar
Attendance: 20,000

Leinster

9 May 1971
Quarter-Final
Offaly 1-7 – 0-3 Longford
Cusack Park, Mullingar
Referee: P Kelly

4 July 1971
Semi-Final
Offaly 2-12 – 0-10 Laois
O'Moore Park, Portlaoise
Referee: B Hayden

18 July 1971
Final
Offaly 2-14 – 0-6 Kildare
Croke Park, Dublin
Attendance: 34255
Referee: P Kelly

Munster

13 June 1971
Semi-Final
Cork 2-10 – 0-5 Clare

13 June 1971
Semi-Final
Kerry 1-14 – 1-7 Tipperary

18 July 1971
Final
Cork 0-25 – 0-14 Kerry

Ulster

6 June 1971
Preliminary Round
Derry 4-10 – 1-10 Fermanagh
Ballinascreen

6 June 1971
Quarter-Final
Armagh 4-9 – 2-10 Tyrone

13 June 1971
Quarter-Final
Derry 0-8 – 0-4 Antrim

13 June 1971
Quarter-Final
Cavan 2-10 – 1-12 Monaghan

20 June 1971
Quarter-Final
Down 3-14– 3-6 Donegal

4 July 1971
Semi-Final
Derry 3-12 – 1-10 Armagh

11 July 1971
Semi-Final
Down 0-11 – 2-3 Cavan

25 July 1971
Final
Down 4-15 – 4-11 Derry

All-Ireland Championship

8 August 1971
Semi-Final
Galway 3-11 - 2-7 Down

22 August 1971
Semi-Final
Offaly 1-16 - 1-11 Cork

26 September 1971
Final
Offaly 1-14 - 2-8 Galway