1890 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

{{Short description|Football championship}}

{{use dmy dates|date=June 2021}}

{{more citations needed|date=July 2011}}

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|year=1890

|team=Cork

|titles=1st

|captain=Jim Power

|manager=

|team2=Wexford

|captain2=

|manager2=

|top scorer=

|leinster=Wexford

|munster=Cork

|ulster= Armagh

|connacht= Galway

|poty=

|matches=

|previous=1889

|next=1891

|}}

The 1890 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the fourth staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Previous years All Ireland champions Tipperary didn't take part in the Munster championship cancelled game against Clare. Cork were the champions.{{Cite web |url=http://gaaweb.sitesuite.cn/page/football_results_1887_1910.html |title=FOOTBALL RESULTS 1887 - 1910 |access-date=2011-07-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120321030258/http://gaaweb.sitesuite.cn/page/football_results_1887_1910.html |archive-date=2012-03-21 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |url=http://www.hoganstand.com/general/champs/honoursf.aspx |title=All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Results 1887-2010 |access-date=2011-07-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716104405/http://hoganstand.com/general/champs/honoursf.aspx |archive-date=2011-07-16 |url-status=dead }}

Representative clubs

From 1887 until 1891 the club champions represented the whole county.

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! County

! Club

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| Armagh

| Armagh Harps

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| Cork

| Midleton

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| Dublin

|Isle of the Sea

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| Galway

|

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|Kerry

| Laune Rangers GAA

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|Limerick

| St. Patricks {{cite web |title=Laune Ranger 1890 |url=http://history.launerangers.ie/?p=1056 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200821031712/http://history.launerangers.ie/?p=1056 |archive-date=21 August 2020 |date=3 February 2014 |url-status=dead}}

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| Tyrone

|

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| Wexford

| Blues & Whites

Results

=Connacht=

Galway were the only entrants, so they received a bye to the All-Ireland semi-final.

=Munster=

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|date=3 August 1890
Quarter-Final

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|team1 = Clare

|score = 0-0 - 0-0

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|team2 = Tipperary

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|stadium = Limerick

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|date=3 August 1890
Quarter-Final

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|team1 = Kerry

|score = 0-9 - 0-0

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|team2 = Limerick

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|stadium = Tralee

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|date=17 August 1890
Semi-Final

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|team1 = Cork

|score = 0-6 - 0-0

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|team2 = Waterford

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|goals2 =

|stadium = Youghal

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|referee =

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|date=14 September 1890
Semi-Final

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|team1 = Kerry

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|team2 = Clare

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|stadium = Market's Field

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|date=28 September 1890
Final

|time =

|team1 = Cork

|score = 0-0 - 0-0
Unfinished. The ball burst after 57mins of play Irish Examiner 1841-current, Monday, September 29, 1890; Page: 3

|report =

|team2 = Kerry

|goals1 =

|goals2 =

|stadium = Raheen, Limerick"The Munster Championships", The Kerry Sentinel, 1 October 1890, p.3

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|date=19 October 1890
Final Replay

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|team1 = Cork

|score = 1-4 - 0-1

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|team2 = Kerry

|goals1 =

|goals2 =

|stadium = Banteer"The Football Championship of Munster", The Kerry Sentinel, 22 October 1890, p.3

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=Leinster=

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|date= 1890
Quarter-Final

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|team1 = Dublin

|score = 6-11 - 0-2

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|team2 = Westmeath

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|stadium = Clonturk

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|referee =

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|date= 1890
Quarter-Final

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|team1 = Wexford

|score = 0-2 - 0-2

|report =

|team2 = Kilkenny

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|stadium = Waterford

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|referee =

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|date= 1890
Quarter-Final Replay

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|team1 = Wexford

|score = 0-0 - 0-0

|report =

|team2 = Kildare

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|goals2 =

|stadium = Clonturk

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|date=9 November 1890
Quarter-Final

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|team1 = Laois

|score = 0-5 - 0-0

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|team2 = Kildare

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|stadium = Clonturk

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|date=19 October 1890
Semi-Final

|time =

|team1 = Laois

|score = 0-1 - 2-8

|report =

|team2 = Dublin

|goals1 =

|goals2 =

|stadium = Clonturk

|attendance =

|referee = T Lee (Dublin)

}}

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{{footballbox

|date=19 October 1890
Semi-Final

|time =

|team1 = Wexford

|score = 0-3 - 0-2

|report =

|team2 = Louth

|goals1 =

|goals2 =

|stadium = Clonturk

|attendance =

|referee =

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{{footballbox

|date=2 November 1890
Final

|time =

|team1 = Wexford

|score = 1-3 - 1-2

|report =

|team2 = Dublin

|goals1 =

|goals2 =

|stadium = Clonturk

|attendance =

|referee =

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=Ulster=

{{footballbox

|date=17 August 1890
Semi-final

|time =

|team1 = Armagh

|score = 3-7 - 0-1

|report =

|team2 = Antrim

|goals1 =

|goals2 =

|stadium = Armagh

|attendance =

|referee = James Weldon

}}

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{{footballbox

|date=12 October 1890
Final

|time =

|team1 = Armagh

|score = 2-8 - 1-2

|report =

|team2 = Tyrone

|goals1 =

|goals2 =

|stadium = Blaris, Lisburn

|attendance =

|referee =

}}

=Semi-finals=

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|date=16 November 1890
Semi-Final

|time =

|team1 = Cork

|score = 1-15 - 0-0

|report =

|team2 = Armagh

|goals1 =

|goals2 =

|stadium = Clonturk

|attendance =

|referee =

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{{footballbox

|date=1890
Semi-Final

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|team1 = Wexford

|score = w/o - scr.

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|team2 = Galway

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=Final=

{{main|1890 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final}}

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|date=26 June 1892

|time =

|team1 = Cork

|score = 2-4 - 0-1

|report =

|team2 = Wexford

|goals1 =

|goals2 =

|stadium = Clonturk

|attendance = 1,000

|referee = J. J. Kenny (Dublin)

}}

Statistics

  • Cork won both the Munster and All-Ireland titles for the first time. The county was Double All-Ireland champion in both football and hurling; it happened again 100 years later, in 1990.

References

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{{All-Ireland Senior Football Championship}}