| Type: | Junior |
| Year: | 1989 |
| Dates: | 3 May – 10 September 1989 |
| Teams: | 13 |
| Munster: | Cork |
| Leinster: | Kildare |
| Matches: | 12 |
| Team: | Cork |
| Titles: | 8th |
| Captain: | Diarmuid McCarthy |
| Manager: | Seán Ryan |
| Team2: | Warwickshire |
| Totalgoals: | 14 (1.16 per game) |
| Totalpoints: | 203 (16.91 per game) |
| Topscorer: | Noel Twomey (1-16) |
| Previous: | 1988 |
| Next: | 1990 |
The 1989 All-Ireland Junior Football Championship was the 59th staging of the All-Ireland Junior Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's second tier Gaelic football championship.
Meath entered the championship as the defending champions, however, they were beaten by Kildare in the Leinster quarter-final.[1]
The All-Ireland final was played on 10 September 1989 in Coventry, between Cork and Warwickshire, in what was their first meeting in the final in two years. Cork won the match by 0–18 to 0–03 to claim their eighth championship title overall and a first title since 1987.[2] [3]
Cork's Noel Twomey was the championship's top scorer with 1-16.
| Rank | Player | Club | Tally | Total | Matches | Average | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Noel Twomey | Cork | 1-16 | 19 | 4 | 4.75 | |
| 2 | William O'Riordan | Cork | 0-16 | 16 | 4 | 4.00 | |
| 3 | Syl Merrins | Kildare | 1-11 | 14 | 4 | 3.50 | |
| 4 | Sean Geaney | Kerry | 2-03 | 9 | 2 | 4.50 | |
| 5 | John Lowry | Kildare | 2-02 | 8 | 4 | 2.00 |
| Rank | Player | Club | Tally | Total | Opposition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sean Geaney | Kerry | 2-02 | 8 | Waterford |
| 2 | Noel Twomey | Cork | 1-04 | 7 | Kildare |
| William O'Riordan | Cork | 0-07 | 7 | Warwickshire | |
| 4 | Syl Merrins | Kildare | 1-03 | 6 | Meath |
| Noel Twomey | Cork | 0-06 | 6 | Warwickshire | |
| Liam O'Brien | Waterford | 0-06 | 6 | Limerick | |
| 7 | Alan O'Connor | Louth | 1-02 | 5 | Carlow |
| Donal McCarthy | Louth | 1-02 | 5 | Kildare | |
| Séamus Dillon | Kildare | 0-05 | 5 | Kilkenny | |
| Johnny O'Gorman | Clare | 0-05 | 5 | Tipperary |