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1991 All Ireland Senior Football Championship

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Winning team
  
Down (4th win)

Manager
  
Pete McGrath

Leinster
  
Meath

Captain
  
Paddy O'Rourke

Munster
  
Kerry

Ulster
  
Down

The 1991 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was played from May to September 1990. Down defeated Meath in the final by a scoreline of 1-16 to 1-14. The Ulster county's victory was to be the start of four consecutive All-Ireland titles for the province. For Meath, it was their second consecutive defeat in a final, having lost to Cork in the 1990 final.

Contents

The Championship was noted for the tie between Dublin and Meath that took three replays to decide.

Connacht Senior Football Championship

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Finals

Leinster Senior Football Championship

Preliminary round

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Munster Senior Football Championship

In 1991 for the first time in years the Munster Championship gets rid of its seeded draw system and moves to an open draw.

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Ulster Senior Football Championship

Preliminary round

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

Semi-finals

Final

Scoring

Overall
Single game

Miscellaneous

  • Fermanagh's 3-12 to 1-8 defeat of Antrim in the Ulster quarter-final is their first victory in the championship since 1983.
  • The 1991 championship became famous for the four-game saga between Meath and Dublin in the preliminary round of the Leinster Championship. The four games comprised three draws, with two still ending level even after extra time. Meath eventually triumphed by a single point. A combined total of just under 237,000 people attended the four games in what was a major windfall for the Leinster Council.
  • Down win the All Ireland final for the 1st time in 23 years and were 1st Ulster county since 1968 to win and also 1st not from Munster/Leinster of course .

    • References

    1991 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Wikipedia
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