1889 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Explained

Year:1889
Team:Tipperary
Titles:1st
Team2:Laois
Leinster:Laois
Munster:Tipperary
Ulster:Not played
Connacht:Not played
Next:1890

The 1889 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the third staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. 1887 All Ireland champions Limerick were not part of the Munster championship. Tipperary were the champions.

Format

Only two provincial championship were played: Leinster and Munster. The winners met in the All-Ireland final.

Representative clubs

From 1887 until 1891 the club champions represented the whole county.

CountyClub
CorkMidleton
KerryLaune Rangers
LouthNewtown Blues
Laois (Queen's County)Maryborough
TipperaryBohercrowe

Results

Leinster

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The Wicklow–Laois game was later ordered to be played again, and so the final had to be played again as well.--------

Munster

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All-Ireland final

See main article: 1889 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final.

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous