The 1918 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the 31st All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1918 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.
![]() Wexford, champions | |||||||
Event | 1918 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship | ||||||
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Date | 16 February 1919 | ||||||
Venue | Croke Park, Dublin | ||||||
Referee | Pat Dunphy (Laois)[1] | ||||||
Attendance | 12,000 | ||||||
Weather | fine but bitterly cold | ||||||
Tipperary's preparations were severely hampered by military regulations following the Soloheadbeg ambush, not to mention the death of Davey Tobin by Spanish flu. A disallowed goal and a last-minute miss by Gus McCarthy were enough to allow Wexford to complete a four-in-a-row.[2] The match, played on 16 February 1919, had been postponed from the previous autumn due to the spread of the flu.[3]
It was the fourth of four All-Ireland football titles won by Wexford in the 1910s.[4] They have not since appeared in an All-Ireland football final.
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