Captain P. Holly | ||
Dates October 1940 – 27 April 1941 | ||
The 1940–41 National Football League was the 14th staging of the National Football League, an annual Gaelic football tournament for the Gaelic Athletic Association county teams of Ireland.
Contents
- Format
- Northern Division
- Group B Southern Division
- Group C Eastern Division
- Group A Western Division
- References
Mayo returned to the league and won a seventh title. Petrol rationing (due to The Emergency / Second World War) made the playing of the NFL prohibitively expensive and difficult and the tournament was suspended until the end of the war.
22 counties competed in the league.
Format
There were four divisions – Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western. Division winners played off for the NFL title.
Northern Division
Down won, from Fermanagh, Tyrone, Derry, Antrim.
Group B, Southern Division
Kerry won, ahead of Kildare, Galway, Laois, Offaly, Wexford and Cork.
Group C, Eastern Division
Dublin won, from Westmeath, Louth, Meath, Longford.
Group A, Western Division
Mayo won, ahead of Cavan, Roscommon, Donegal and Sligo.