1933 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

The 1933 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 47th staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Cavan won their first title.^[1][2][3] Were also the first county from the province of Ulster to win. They ended Kerry's 4 year period in the All Ireland semi-final as All Ireland champions.

1933 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

All-Ireland Champions
Winning team	Cavan (1st win)
Captain	Jim Smith
All-Ireland Finalists
Losing team	Galway
Captain	Michael Donnellan
Provincial Champions
Munster	Kerry
Leinster	Dublin
Ulster	Cavan
Connacht	Galway
Championship statistics
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Results

Connacht Senior Football Championship

Galway	2-10 – 0-0	Roscommon

28 May 1933
Quarter-Final

Tuam

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Mayo	4-10 – 1-0	Leitrim

11 June 1933
Semi-Final

Tubbercurry

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Galway	4-8 – 0-4	Sligo

2 July 1933
Semi-Final

Castlerea

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Galway	1-7 – 1-5	Mayo
		G Ormsby (0-1) & G Courell (1-2).

23 July 1933
Final

Castlerea

Leinster Senior Football Championship

Offaly	1-3 – 4-4	Wexford

7 May 1933
Quarter-Final

Croke Park, Dublin

Referee: J Curran

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Louth	4-7 – 1-6	Westmeath

28 May 1933
Quarter-Final

Navan

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Kildare	1-9 – 2-6	Laois
P.Pringle 1-1, P.Byrne 0-3, T.Keogh, P.Martin 0-2, P.Matthews 0-1.

28 May 1933
Quarter-Final

Nowlan Park, Kilkenny

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Dublin	1-8 – 1-4	Meath

11 June 1933
Quarter-Final

Drogheda Park, Drogheda

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Kildare	2-11 – 1-5	Laois
P.Byrne 1-4, T.Keogh 1-2, P.Martin 0-2, H.Burke, M.Behan, J.Higgins 0-1.

11 June 1933
Quarter-Final

Nowlan Park, Kilkenny

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Dublin	3-6 – 1-3	Louth

25 June 1933
Semi-Final

Navan

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Kildare	1-8 – 2-8	Wexford
P.Byrne 0-5, T.Keogh 1-0, P.Pringle, P.Martin, H.Burke 0-1.

2 July 1933
Semi-Final

Croke Park, Dublin

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Dublin	0-9 – 1-4	Wexford
Murt Kelly 0-3f, Joe Fitzgerald and Peter Synott 0-2 each, Billy Dowling and Paddy Perry 0-1 each		Martin O'Neill 1-2, Jack Fane (0-1f) and Davy Morris 0-1 each

30 July 1933
Final

Croke Park, Dublin

Attendance: 16,000

Referee: J.V. Kelly (Longford)

Munster Senior Football Championship

Tipperary	1-11 – 1-2	Clare

14 May 1933
Quarter-Final

Gaelic Grounds, Limerick

Referee: W. Hough (L)

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Cork	4-4 – 4-4	Waterford
D. McCarthy (0-1), J. McKenna (1-2), D. O'Sullivan (2-0) & J. O'Regan (1-0).

14 May 1933
Quarter-Final

Mitchelstown

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Cork	2-7 – 0-1	Waterford
J. Cummins (0-1), W. Lynch (0-3), D. O'Sullivan (1-0), J. McKenna (0-3) & J. O'Regan (1-0).

2 July 1933
Quarter-Final Replay

Fraher Field, Dungarvan

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Tipperary	2-9 – 2-2	Cork
		J. McKenna (1-1) & J. O'Regan (1-0).

23 July 1933
Semi-Final

Ned Hall Park, Clonmel

Referee: S. Moynihan (K)

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Kerry	2-8 – 1-4	Tipperary
Paul Russell (1-1), Johnny Walsh (0-1), Martin Regan (0-1), Tim Landers (1-0), Jackie Ryan (0-4) & Charlie O'Sullivan (0-1).

13 August 1933
Final

Ned Hall Park, Clonmel

Referee: P. O'Donnell (W)

Ulster Senior Football Championship

Antrim	0-3 – 0-3	Tyrone

11 June 1933
Quarter-Final

Coalisland

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Armagh	2-1 – 1-3	Down

18 June 1933
Quarter-Final

Warrenpoint

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Antrim	3-5 – 3-5 A.E.T.	Tyrone

25 June 1933
Quarter-Final Replay

Corrigan Park, Belfast

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Fermanagh	2-3 – 0-3	Monaghan

25 June 1933
Quarter-Final

Belturbet

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Antrim	1-2 – 1-8	Tyrone

9 July 1933
Quarter-Final, 2nd Replay

Omagh

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Armagh	0-2 – 1-8	Cavan

2 July 1933
Semi-Final

Breffni Park, Cavan

Attendance: 2,500

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Fermanagh	1-3 – 1-4	Tyrone

16 July 1933
Semi-Final

Bundoran

Attendance: 6,000

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Cavan	6-13 – 1-2	Tyrone

6 August 1933
Final

Breffni Park, Cavan

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

Galway	0-8 – 1-4	Dublin

20 August 1933
Semi-Final

Cusack Park, Mullingar

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Cavan	1-5 – 0-5	Kerry
		Jackie Ryan 0-3, Paul Russell 0-1, Miko Doyle 0-1

27 August 1933
Semi-Final

Breffni Park, Cavan

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Cavan	2-5 – 1-4	Galway

24 September 1933
Final

Croke Park, Dublin

Attendance: 45,188

Referee: Martin O'Neill (Wexford)

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

• Mullingar's Grounds becomes known as Cusack Park, in Mullingar after Michael Cusack.
• Kerry are denied a five-in-a-row by losing the All-Ireland semi-final to Cavan; they would later be denied a five-in-a-row after losing the 1982 final.
• Cavan becomes the first Ulster team to win the All Ireland title.

References

1. "Football results 1887-1910". GAA. Archived from the original on 21 March 2012. Retrieved 21 July 2011.
2. "All-Ireland Senior Football Championship 1887-2010". HoganStand. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 21 July 2011.
3. "Leinster Senior Football Champions" (PDF). Leinster GAA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 28 September 2011.