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.

County	Club
Cork	Midleton
Kerry	Laune Rangers
Louth	Newtown Blues
Laois (Queen's County)	Maryborough
Tipperary	Bohercrowe

Results

Leinster

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	1	Jack Rooney (gk)
	2	James Mooney (c)
	3	Eugene Clifford
	4	James Kelly
	5	Patrick Byrne
	6	F. Farrell
	7	Bernard Woods
	8	Joe Carroll
	9	James McCann
	10	John Hughes
	11	Peter Allen
	12	Peter Hickey
	13	J. Dillon
	14	Robert Allen
	15	Francis Carroll
	16	Nick Tiernan
	17	Paddy Rooney
	18	Joe Connor
	19	Pat Finegan
	20	Thomas Heaney
	21	Jack Louth

Munster

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All-Ireland final

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

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

Tipperary win the first All Ireland title.