1998 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

1998 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Championship details
Dates 3 May 1998 – 27 September 1998
Teams 32
All-Ireland Champions
Winning team Galway (8th win)
Captain Ray Silke
Manager John O'Mahony
All-Ireland Finalists
Losing team Kildare
Captain Glenn Ryan
Manager Mick O'Dwyer
Provincial Champions
Munster Kerry
Leinster Kildare
Ulster Derry
Connacht Galway
Championship statistics
No. matches played 36
Goals total 61 (1.69 per game)
Points total 860 (23.89 per game)
Player of the Year Michael Donnellan
1997
1999

The 1998 Bank of Ireland All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 112th edition of the GAA's premier Gaelic football competition. The championship began on 3 May 1998 and ended on 27 September 1998.

Galway's 1-14 to 1-10 victory over Kildare in the All-Ireland final meant that the Sam Maguire Cup returned to the county and the province of Connacht for the first time since 1966. This was Galway's eighth All-Ireland triumph in all. Kildare, managed by Mick O'Dwyer, had defeated the 1995 champions Dublin and the 1996 champions Meath to win their first Leinster title since 1956, before defeating the 1997 champions Kerry in the All-Ireland semi-final.

Format

The Ulster, Munster, Leinster and Connacht championships were conducted as straight knock-out competitions. The Munster football championship for the 2nd year running had Kerry, Cork and Clare as byes to the semi-finals while Limerick, Tipperary and Waterford played a lone-first round game with the bye team in a lone quarter final. The winners of each provincial competition went on to play in the All Ireland semi-finals.

Results

Connacht Senior Football Championship

Quarter Finals Semi Finals Final
Sligo 0-14  
London 1-07     Sligo 0-15  
        Roscommon 1-13  
          Roscommon 0-17
          Galway 1-17
        Leitrim 0-05
Mayo 2-06     Galway 1-16    
Galway 1-13  

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Finals

Leinster Senior Football Championship

First round Second round Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final
     
             
             
          Kildare 0-12  
        Dublin 1-8  
             
             
          Kildare 2-13  
        Laois 0-8  
             
             
        Laois 1-15
Westmeath 1-18     Westmeath 0-15  
Carlow 2-5     Westmeath 3-14  
Longford 0-16 (1-16)     Longford 1-13  
Wexford 2-17 (2-13)       Kildare 1-12
        Meath 0-10
           
             
        Louth 3-14
        Wicklow 1-11  
             
             
        Meath 0-15  
        Louth 1-11  
                 
                 
        Meath 3-10
        Offaly 0-7  
           
             
     

First round

Second round

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Munster Senior Football Championship

First round Quarter-final Semi-finals Final
     
             
             
          Clare 0-12  
          Tipperary 1-16  
        Waterford 0-07  
Tipperary 1-13     Tipperary 1-16  
Limerick 1-12       Tipperary 1-10
          Kerry 0-17
             
             
          Cork 1-11  
          Kerry 1-14  
                 
                 
     

First round

Quarter-final

Semi-finals

Final

Ulster Senior Football Championship

Preliminary Round Quarter Finals Semi Finals Final
     
        Monaghan 0-11  
        Derry 3-13  
          Derry 2-13  
Tyrone 2-07       Armagh 1-12  
Down 0-15     Down 0-11  
        Armagh 0-16  
          Derry 1-07
          Donegal 0-08
        Antrim 0-11  
        Donegal 1-11  
          Donegal 0-15  
          Cavan 0-13  
        Fermanagh 0-11      
        Cavan 0-13      
     

Preliminary round

Quarter-finals

Semi-final

Final

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

Semi-finals Final
      
Kildare 0-13
Kerry 1-09
Kildare 1-10
Galway 1-14
Galway 0-16
Derry 1-08

Semi-finals

Final

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

Top scorers

Overall
Rank Player County Tally Total Matches Average
1 Declan Browne Tipperary 2-29 35 4 8.75
2 Eddie Lohan Roscommon 1-27 30 4 7.50
3 Pádraic Joyce Galway 1-24 27 6 4.50
4 Pádraic Graven Kildare 1-20 23 6 3.83
5 Maurice Fitzgerald Kerry 1-18 21 3 7.00
Niall Finnegan Galway 1-18 21 6 3.50
7 Ger Heavin Westmeath 2-14 20 3 6.66
8 Dessie Barry Longford 1-16 19 3 6.33
9 Paul Taylor Sligo 0-17 17 3 5.66
10 Pádraic Davis Sligo 0-16 16 3 5.33
Jarlath Fallon Galway 0-16 16 6 2.66
Single game
Rank Player County Tally Total Opposition
1 Declan Browne Tipperary 1-07 10 Clare
Maurice Fitzgerald Kerry 0-10 10 Tipperary
3 Declan Browne Tipperary 1-06 9 Limerick
Eddie Lohan Roscommon 1-06 9 Sligo
Dessie Barry Longford 0-09 9 Wexford
Declan Browne Tipperary 0-09 9 Waterford
7 Ger Heavin Westmeath 1-05 8 Carlow
Declan Darcy Dublin 1-05 8 Kildare
Ger Heavin Westmeath 1-05 8 Longford
Colin Kelly Louth 1-05 8 Wicklow
Paul Taylor Sligo 0-08 8 Roscommon
Eddie Lohan Roscommon 0-08 8 Galway
Eddie Lohan Roscommon 0-08 8 Galway
Pádraic Davis Longford 0-08 8 Wexford
Declan Smyth Monaghan 0-08 8 Derry
Pádraic Joyce Galway 0-08 8 Derry
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