1898 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
{{Short description|Men's Gaelic football inter-county competition}}
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|year=1898
|team=Dublin
|titles=5th
|captain=Matt Rea
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|team2=Waterford
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|leinster=Dublin
|munster=Waterford
|ulster=Not played
|connacht=Not played
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|previous=1897
|next=1899
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The 1898 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 12th staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Dublin were the winners.{{Cite web |url=http://gaaweb.sitesuite.cn/page/football_results_1887_1910.html |title=Football Results 1887 - 1910 | the Official Website of the GAA |access-date=2011-07-04 |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=Archived copy |access-date=2011-07-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716104405/http://hoganstand.com/general/champs/honoursf.aspx |archive-date=2011-07-16 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://leinster.gaa.ie/archive/pdf/P130_134_Senior_FootChamp.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2011-09-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928061017/http://leinster.gaa.ie/archive/pdf/P130_134_Senior_FootChamp.pdf |archive-date=2011-09-28 }}
Results
=Leinster=
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|date= 1898
Round 1
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|team1 = Meath
|score = 2-6 – 0-6
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|team2 = Offaly
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|stadium = Jones's Road, Dublin
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|date=11 July 1898
Round 2
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|team1 = Wexford
|score = 2-24 – 0-5
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|team2 = Carlow
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|date=1898
Round 3
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|team1 = Louth
|score = 1-7 – 0-3
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|team2 = Meath
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|date=19 March 1899
Round 4
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|team1 = Offaly
|score = 2-6 – 1-3
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|team2 = Wicklow
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|stadium = Jones's Road, Dublin
|attendance =
|referee = Charles Brady
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|date=19 November 1899
Quarter-Final
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|team1 = Offaly
|score = 0-4 – 1-11
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|team2 = Wexford
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|stadium = Jones's Road, Dublin
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|date= 1898
Quarter-Final
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|team1 = Dublin
|score = 2-6 – 0-6
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|team2 = Laois
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|stadium = Jones's Road, Dublin
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|date= 1900
Semi-Final
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|team1 = Dublin
|score = 1-16 – 0-1
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|team2 = Kilkenny
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|stadium = Jones's Road, Dublin
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|date= 1900
Semi-Final
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|team1 = Wexford
|score = 3-10 – 0-3
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|team2 = Wicklow
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|stadium = Jones's Road, Dublin
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|date=4 February 1900
Final
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|team1 = Dublin
|score = 2-6 – 0-0
Unfinished
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|team2 = Wexford
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|stadium = Jones's Road, Dublin
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Dublin were awarded the game.
=Munster=
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|date=10 September 1899
Quarter-Final
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|team1 = Limerick
|score = scr. – scr.
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|team2 = Clare
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|stadium = Tipperary"Meeting of the Central Council", Nenagh News, 23 September 1899, p.3
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|date= 1899
Semi-Final
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|team1 = Waterford
|score = 0-9 – 0-0
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|team2 = Tipperary
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|stadium = Waterford
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|date=24 September 1899
Final
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|team1 = Waterford
|score = 1-3 – 0-4
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|team2 = Cork
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|stadium = Lismore
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=Final=
Statistics
- Waterford won an only ever Munster SFC final.
- Waterford were represented by Erin's Hope, with a few representatives from Lismore Blackwater Ramblers.
- Limerick and Clare were thrown out because they refused to play their tie at Tipperary."Gaelic Notes", Evening Herald, 23 September 1899, p.7
- It was Dublin's second two-in-a-row as All-Ireland champions.