The 1938 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 52nd staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Galway won their third title ending Kerry's year.[1][2][3]
Format
The All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was run on a provincial basis as usual, with a rotation system of every 3rd season from this year onwards meaning for with the four winners from Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster advancing to the All-Ireland semi-finals. The draw for these games was as follows:
The Preliminary Round of the Leinster football championship saw 2 draws and replays, They were the matches between Carlow vs Wicklow and Offaly vs Wexford.
Laois become the last team until Offaly (1971-1973) to complete a triple of Leinster titles.
The All Ireland semi finals become Rotation of every 3 years from this years on words between the champions of each province.
The All-Ireland final for the only time in history ends in a draw and goes to a replay for the 2nd year in a row.
Roll of Honour
Dublin - 14 (1923)
Kerry - 12 (1937)
Wexford - 5 (1918)
Kildare - 4 (1928)
Tipperary - 4 (1920)
Galway - 3 (1938)
Cavan - 2 (1935)
Limerick - 2 (1896)
Cork - 2 (1911)
Louth - 2 (1912)
Mayo - 1 (1936)
References
^"Football Results 1911 - 1940 | the Official Website of the GAA". Archived from the original on 21 March 2012. Retrieved 22 July 2011.
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^"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)