1931 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning teamKerry (10th win)
CaptainCon Brosnan
All-Ireland Finalists
Losing teamKildare
Provincial Champions
MunsterKerry
LeinsterKildare
UlsterCavan
ConnachtMayo
Championship statistics
← 1930
1932 →

The 1931 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 45th staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Kerry were the winners.[1][2][3]

Results

Connacht Senior Football Championship

Mayo1-8 – 1-3Sligo
J Culkin (0-4) & G Courell (1-3).
Roscommon5-6 – 0-1Leitrim
Mayo3-5 – 1-4Galway
J Culkin (1-2), G Courell (1-1), P Moclair (1-2).
Attendance: 6,000
Mayo2-10 – 3-2Roscommon
S O’Malley (0-1), J Forde (0-1), S O’Dwyer (0-1), M Moran (0-1); G Courell (2-3) & J Culkin (0-3).
Attendance: 6,000

Leinster Senior Football Championship

Preliminary Round
Louth2-2 – 1-3Meath
Quarter Final
Louth1-5 – 5-6Dublin
Quarter Final
Westmeath8-5 – 1-5Kilkenny
Ballyduff Park, Tullamore
Quarter Final
Kildare2-4 – 1-6Laois
J.P.Murphy 1-1, P.Loughlin 1-0, F.Malone, H.Burke, J.Higgins 0-1.
Quarter Final
Meath2-1 – 1-1Offaly
Referee: T Burke (Louth)
Quarter Final Replay
Meath0-8 – 0-3Offaly
Referee: A Rogers
Semi Final
Kildare1-4 – 1-4Meath
M.Mahon 1-0, P.Martin 0-2, P.Byrne, J.Higgins 0-1.
Semi Final
Westmeath2-4 – 1-4Dublin
Ballyduff Park, Tullamore
Semi Final Replay
Kildare1-5 – 0-5Meath
P.Doyle 1-2, P.Pringle, P.Waters 0-1.
Final
Kildare2-9 – 1-6Westmeath
Paul Doyle 1-5 (1-4f), Peter Pringle 1-0, Peter Waters, M Mahon, Paddy Martin, Dermot Bourke 0-1 each Paddy Doyle 1-2f, Jack Smith 0-2, Jim Byrne (0-1f) and Paddy Bracken 0-1 each
Attendance: 9,300
Referee: J. Donoghue (Wexford)

Munster Senior Football Championship

Preliminary Round
Tipperary4-4 – 0-1Limerick
Referee: P. McNamara (Clare)
Quarter-Final
Cork3-4 – 1-2Clare
M. Jackson (0-3), J. O'Regan (2-0) & J. Murphy (1-0).
Quarter-Final
Tipperary0-7 – 0-0Waterford
Referee: T. Keating (Tipperary)
Semi-Final
Cork3-1 – 2-11Tipperary
J. Murphy & J. Warren (1-0).
Referee: P. Whelan (W)
Final
Kerry5-8 – 0-2Tipperary
Tim Landers (1-0), Jackie Ryan (1-0) & Martin Regan (3-0).
Referee: S. Malone (Clare)

Ulster Senior Football Championship

Donegal2-4 – 0-1Antrim
Attendance: 1,000

An objection was made and the game awarded to Antrim.

Monaghan3-8 – 1-4Tyrone
Armagh0-6 – 0-2Down
Cavan2-5 – 1-2Fermanagh
Armagh1-9 – 0-4Monaghan
Attendance: 4,000
Cavan4-9 – 2-3Antrim
Cavan0-8 – 2-1Armagh

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

Semi-Final
Kerry1-6 – 1-4Mayo
J Ryan 1-1, P Whitty 0-3, B Stack, M Doyle 0-1 each S O’Dwyer (0-1), G Courell (0-2) & J Culkin (1-0).
Kildare0-10 – 1-5Cavan
P.Doyle 0-4, P.Byrne 0-3, P.Martin 0-2, P.Pringle 0-1.
Final
Kerry1-11 – 0-8Kildare
J Ryan 0-6, P Russell 1-0, P Whitty, J J Landers 0-2 each, M Doyle 0-1. Report P.Byrne, H.Burke 0-3, D.Bourke, P.Martin 0-1.
Attendance: 42,350
Referee: T. Keating (Tipperary)

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

  • Castlebar's pitch becomes known as McHale after John MacHale.
  • Kilkenny withdraw from Leinster Championship until 1943.
  • Westmeath beat Dublin for the first time ever.
  • Kerry become the first Munster team to be All Ireland champions for 3 years in a row.

References

  1. ↑ "Football Results 1911 - 1940 | the Official Website of the GAA". Archived from the original on 21 March 2012. Retrieved 9 July 2011.
  2. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 9 July 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 28 September 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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