2001 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

2001 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

Championship details
Dates	6 May - 23 September 2001
Teams	32
All-Ireland Champions
Winning team	Galway (9th win)
Captain	Gary Fahey
Manager	John O'Mahony
All-Ireland Finalists
Losing team	Meath
Captain	Trevor Giles
Manager	Sean Boylan
Provincial Champions
Munster	Kerry
Leinster	Meath
Ulster	Tyrone
Connacht	Roscommon
Championship statistics
No. matches played	63
Goals total	122 (1.94 per game)
Points total	1490 (23.65 per game)
Top Scorer	Pádraic Joyce (3-45)
Player of the Year	Declan Meehan
← 2000 2002 →

The 2001 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 115th edition of the GAA's premier gaelic football competition. It was played between May and September 2001. This was the first year that the qualifier system, whereby teams knocked out of the provincial competitions entered a secondary competition to qualify for the All-Ireland series, was used. A similar system had already been successfully used in the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship. Galway lost to Roscommon in the Connacht Semi-Final but managed to reach the All-Ireland Final, beating Wicklow, Armagh and Cork in the qualifiers. They exacted revenge against Roscommon in the quarter finals and defeated Derry in the semi-final. In the final, they outclassed a Meath side still jubilant after hammering the reigning champions Kerry in the semi-final to win their ninth All-Ireland Football title. Pádraic Joyce scored a personal tally of 0-10 in the final and finished the year as top scorer. Declan Meehan won player of the year

Format

The provincial championships in Munster, Leinster, Ulster and Connacht ran as usual on a "knock-out" basis. These provincial games were then followed by the "Qualifier" system:

• Round 1 of the qualifiers included all the counties that did not qualify for the Provincial Semi-Finals, except for New York. An open draw was made to give eight pairings.

• Round 2 consisted of the eight defeated teams in the Provincial Semi-Finals playing against the eight winners from Round 1. A draw was made to determine the eight pairings.

• Round 3 consisted of the 8 winners from Round 2 playing each other in an open draw format.

• Round 4 consisted of each of the four teams defeated in the Provincial Finals shall playing against the four winners from Round 3. A draw was made to determine the four pairings.

In the All-Ireland Quarter-Finals, each of the four Provincial Champions played one of the four winners from Round 4. The All-Ireland Semi-Finals were determined on a provincial rota basis, initially determined by the Central Council. If a Provincial Championship winning team was defeated in its Quarter-Final, the team that defeats it took its place in the Semi-Final.

Connacht Senior Football Championship

Due to an outbreak of foot and mouth disease in the UK, London took no part in the Connacht Senior Football Championship in 2001.^[1]

	Quarter Finals					Semi Finals					Final
						Sligo		1-11
						Mayo		1-12
											Mayo		1-12
	New York		1-09								Roscommon		2-10
	Roscommon		3-13			Roscommon		2-12
	Leitrim		2-05			Galway		0-14
	Galway		3-24

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Munster Senior Football Championship

	Quarter Finals					Semi Finals					Final
	Cork		3-16
	Waterford		1-07			Cork		2-11
						Clare		1-10
											Cork		1-13
											Kerry		0-19
						Limerick		0-10
	Tipperary		1-04			Kerry		1-15
	Kerry		3-17

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Ulster Senior Football Championship

	Preliminary Round					Quarter Finals					Semi Finals					Final
						Antrim		0-09
						Derry		1-11
											Derry		0-14
											Tyrone		3-07
						Armagh		1-09
						Tyrone		1-14
																Tyrone		1-13
																Cavan		1-11
						Down		2-10
						Cavan		1-14
											Cavan		0-13
	Donegal		0-11								Monaghan		0-11
	Fermanagh		1-09			Fermanagh		0-14
						Monaghan		2-10

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Leinster Senior Football Championship

	Round 1					Quarter Finals					Semi Finals					Final
	Wexford		0-14
	Laois		0-18			Laois		0-12
						Offaly		1-13
											Offaly		0-13
	Longford		1-11								Dublin		1-12
	Louth		1-09			Longford		1-13
						Dublin		2-19
																Dublin		0-14
	Carlow		0-09													Meath		2-11
	Wicklow		0-08			Carlow		0-11
						Kildare		0-19
											Kildare		1-11
											Meath		1-16
						Westmeath		1-14
						Meath		2-12

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All-Ireland qualifiers

Round 1

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Round 2

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Round 3

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Round 4

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All-Ireland series

	Quarterfinals					Semifinals					Final
	Kerry		2-12
	Dublin		1-12
						Kerry		0-05
						Meath		2-14
	Meath		2-10
	Westmeath		0-11
											Meath		0-08
											Galway		0-17
	Derry		1-09
	Tyrone		0-07
						Derry		1-11
						Galway		1-14
	Galway		0-14
	Roscommon		1-05

Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Final

All-Ireland Football Final

Galway Maroon & White Shirts/White Shorts/Maroon Socks	0-17 - 0-08 (final score after 70 minutes)	Meath Green & Gold Shirts/White shorts/Green Socks
Manager: John O'Mahony Team: Alan Keane Kieran Fitzgerald Gary Fahey (Capt.) Richard Fahey Declan Meehan Tomás Mannion Seán Óg De Paor Kevin Walsh Michael Donnellan Paul Clancy Ja Fallon Joe Bergin Derek Savage Pádraic Joyce Tommy Joyce Substitutes: Padraig Lally (GK) Michael Comer Tomás Meehan Micheál Ó Callaráin Seán Ó Dómhnaill Alan Kerins Matthew Clancy Kieran Comer John Donnellan	Half-time: 0-06 - 0-06 Competition: All-Ireland Senior Football Championship (Final) Date: 15.30 BST Sunday, 23 September 2001 Venue: Croke Park, Dublin Attendance: 70,842 Referee: Michael Collins (Corcaigh) Match rules: 70 minutes. Replay if scores still level. Maximum of 3 substitutions.	Manager: Sean Boylan Team: Cormac Sullivan (GK) Mark O'Reilly Darren Fay Cormac Murphy Donal Curtis Nigel Nestor Hank Traynor Nigel Crawford John McDermott Evan Kelly Trevor Giles (Capt.) Richie Kealy Ollie Murphy Graham Geraghty Ray Magee Substitutes: David Gallagher(GK) Paddy Reynolds Paul Shankey John Cullinane Niall Kelly Dermot Kealy Adrian Kenny Mick O'Dowd Jody Devine

Statistics

Top scorers

Player	County	Tally	Total	Matches	Average
Pádraic Joyce	Galway	3-45	54	8	6.75
Ger Heavin	Westmeath	2-32	38	8	4.75
Joe Fallon	Westmeath	0-29	29	8	3.67
Dara Ó Cinnéide	Kerry	1-24	27	6	4.5
Johnny Crowley	Kerry	3-15	24	6	4
Trevor Giles	Meath	1-21	24	7	3.41

Individual feats

Player	County	Tally	Opposition
Pádraic Joyce	Galway	3-03	Leitrim
Leigh O'Brien	Wexford	0-11	Westmeath
Pádraic Joyce	Galway	0-10	Meath
Dara Ó Cinnéide	Kerry	0-09	Cork
Colin Corkery	Cork	0-08	Kerry
Dessie Sloyan	Sligo	0-08	Kildare

References

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