1889 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

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.

1889 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

All-Ireland Champions
Winning team	Tipperary (1st win)
Captain	Gil Cavanagh
All-Ireland Finalists
Losing team	Laois
Provincial Champions
Munster	Tipperary
Leinster	Laois
Ulster	Not played
Connacht	Not played
Championship statistics
← 1888 1890 →

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

25 August 1889
Quarter-final

Louth	2–7 – 0–6	Dublin

Drogheda

Attendance: 8,000

Referee: PR Cleary

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15 September 1889
Semi-final

Louth	w/o – scr.	Kilkenny

Dublin

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15 September 1889
Semi-final

Wicklow	w/o - scr.	Laois

Dublin

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15 September 1889
Final

Louth	1–7 – 1–4	Wicklow

Dublin

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

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13 October 1889
Semi-final, Refixed

Laois	0–9 – 0–4	Wicklow

Inchicore

Attendance: 2,000

Referee: P Brown

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13 October 1889
Final, Refixed

Laois	0-3 – 0–2	Louth

Inchicore

Attendance: 2,000

Referee: JJ Reilly

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21

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

29 March 1889
Quarter-final

Tipperary	w/o – scr.	Clare

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29 March 1889
Semi-final

Tipperary	W - L	Waterford

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28 July 1889
Semi-final

Cork	0-2 – 0-1	Kerry

Mallow

Referee: T. R. Cleary

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6 October 1889
Final

Tipperary	1-2 – 0-3	Cork

Mallow

Referee: E Moynihan

All-Ireland final

Main article: 1889 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final

20 October 1889

Tipperary	3-6 - 0-0	Laois

Inchicore

Attendance: 1,500

Referee: M. O'Driscoll

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

• Tipperary win the first All Ireland title.