1896 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

Football championship April 2022 1896 Limerick 2nd Con Fitzgerald Dublin Dublin Limerick Not played Not played 1895 1897 The 1896 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the tenth staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. It was the first championship in which a goal was worth three points. Limerick won their second, and so far last, title. In the Munster final they beat Tipperary, the defending champions.http://gaaweb.sitesuite.cn/page/football_results_1887_1910.html Football results 1887–1910 GAA 2011-07-04 https://web.archive.org/web/20120321030258/http://gaaweb.sitesuite.cn/page/football_results_1887_1910.html 2012-03-21 dead http://www.hoganstand.com/general/champs/honoursf.aspx All-Ireland Senior Football Championship 1887–2010 HoganStand 2011-07-04 https://web.archive.org/web/20110716104405/http://hoganstand.com/general/champs/honoursf.aspx 2011-07-16 dead http://leinster.gaa.ie/archive/pdf/P130_134_Senior_FootChamp.pdf Leinster Senior Football Champions Leinster GAA 2011-09-28 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20110928061017/http://leinster.gaa.ie/archive/pdf/P130_134_Senior_FootChamp.pdf 2011-09-28 Results Leinster 1896Quarter-Final Dublin 0–12 – 1–3 Wicklow Jones's Road, Dublin 29 November 1896Quarter-Final Louth 1–6 – 0–2 Offaly Jones's Road, Dublin 6 December 1896Quarter-Final Kildare 0–6 – 02 Wexford Jones's Road, Dublin 30 May 1897Semi-Final Kildare 1–12 – 2–13 Dublin Jones's Road, Dublin 1897Semi-Final Kilkenny 0–4 – 1–10 Meath Jones's Road, Dublin 24 October 1897Final Dublin 2–4 – 1–5Unfinished Meath Jones's Road, Dublin The final was abandoned after 50 minutes of play. It was refixed on several occasions but never replayed. On 2 January 1898 Dublin were awarded the Leinster title. Munster 14 March 1897Quarter-final Limerick 1–2 – 1–1 Cork Tipperary 3 November 1897Semi-final Limerick 2–4 – 0–6 Tipperary Mallow D.Power 21 November 1897Final Limerick 0–4 – 0–1 Waterford Mallow"The Munster Football Championships", Munster Express, 27 November 1897, p.8 Final 1896 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final 6 January 1898 Limerick 1–5 – 0–7 Dublin Jones's Road, Dublin 3,500 Thomas Dooley (Cork) Statistics Limerick win a Munster SFC title and a second All-Ireland SFC title. References All-Ireland Senior Football Championship