Winners Mayo (8th win) Runners-up Louth | Captain Tommy Byrne | |
Dates October 1948 – 10 April 1949 | ||
The 1948–49 National Football League was the 18th staging of the National Football League, an annual Gaelic football tournament for the Gaelic Athletic Association county teams of Ireland.
Contents
Mayo won the NFL with a narrow defeat of Louth in the final.
Format
Instead of geographic groupings, teams are placed into Divisions I, II, III and IV. The top team in each division reaches the semi-finals.
Group A
Westmeath, Cavan, Meath
Group B
Louth, Dublin, Longford
Group A
Limerick, Tipperary, Clare
Section B
Wexford, Wicklow, Carlow
Section C
Offaly, Kildare, Laois, Cork
References
1948–49 National Football League (Ireland) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA