The 1920 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 34th staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition.[1][2][3]
| All-Ireland Champions | |
|---|---|
| Winning team | Tipperary (4th win) |
| Captain | Jerry Shelly |
| All-Ireland Finalists | |
| Losing team | Dublin |
| Captain | P McDonnell |
| Provincial Champions | |
| Munster | Tipperary |
| Leinster | Dublin |
| Ulster | Cavan |
| Connacht | Mayo |
| Championship statistics | |
← 1919 1921 → | |
In the Leinster final Dublin ended Kildare's period as All Ireland champions.
The championship was disrupted by the ongoing Irish War of Independence, including the events of Bloody Sunday in November 1920, when British forces killed fourteen people at a match between Dublin and Tipperary at Croke Park in Dublin.[4] Because Dublin and Tipperary were the eventual finalists, it is often incorrectly assumed that this was the All-Ireland final, but it was actually a challenge match held to raise funds for the Republican Prisoners Dependents Fund.[5] In fact, Tipperary did not play their semi-final match until 1922, 19 months after Dublin won the first semi-final.[4]
The Final was played in June 1922. Tipperary beat Dublin by 1-6 to 1-2.[4]
100 years later, the same four teams appeared in the semi-finals, with Cavan also playing Dublin and Mayo also playing Tipperary, confirmed on the weekend of the centenary of Bloody Sunday with the championship delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic.[6]
Provincial championships
edit| Dublin | 1-3 – 0-3 | Kildare |
|---|---|---|
| Paddy Carey 1-0, Bill Robbins (0-1f), Frank Burke, Stephen Synott 0-1 each | Joyce Conlan 0-2 and Albert O'Neill 0-1f |
All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
editBracket
edit| Semi-Finals | Final | ||||||||
 Dublin
| 3-06 | ||||||||
 Cavan
| 1-03 | ||||||||
| Dublin
| 1-02 | ||||||||
 Tipperary
| 1-06 | ||||||||
| Tipperary
| 1-05 | ||||||||
 Mayo
| 1-00 | ||||||||
References
edit- ^ a b c d "Football Results 1911 - 1940". Gaelic Athletic Association. Archived from the original on 21 March 2012. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
- ^ a b c d "All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Results 1887-2010". HoganStand.com. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
- ^ a b "Leinster Senior Football Champions" (PDF). Leinster GAA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
- ^ a b c Doyle, Siobhán (19 November 2020). "The story of Bloody Sunday and Tipperary football's rise and fall". RTÉ.
- ^ Doyle, Siobhán (18 November 1920). "Debunking some of the myths around Bloody Sunday". RTÉ.
- ^ "Repeat of 1920 All-Ireland semi-finals confirmed on weekend of Bloody Sunday commemoration". The42. 22 November 2020. Retrieved 22 November 2020.