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2001 All Ireland Senior Football Championship

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Teams
  
32

Captain
  
Gary Fahey

Losing team
  
Meath

Winning team
  
Galway (9th win)

Manager
  
John O'Mahony

Dates
  
6 May 2001 - 23 September 2001

The 2001 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 115th staging of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county Gaelic football tournament. The championship began on 6 May 2001 and ended on 23 September 2001.

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The format of the championship saw the biggest change in over 100 years with the introduction of the All-Ireland qualifiers. This system saw teams who were defeated in the provincial championships enter a secondary championship and the chance to qualify for the All-Ireland series. The Leinster Championship abandoned its group stage and returned to a straight knockout system. London declined to field a team in the championship due to an outbreak of foot and mouth disease.

Kerry entered the championship as the defending champions, however, they were defeated by Meath in the All-Ireland semi-final.

On 23 September 2001, Galway won the championship following an 0-17 to 0-8 defeat of Meath in the All-Ireland final. This was their ninth All-Ireland title and their first in three championship seasons.

Galway's Pádraic Joyce was the championship's top scorer with 3-45. He was also named as the All-Stars Footballer of the Year, while Declan Meehan was chosen as the Texaco Footballer of the Year.

Format

The provincial championships in Munster, Leinster, Ulster and Connacht ran as usual on a "knock-out" basis. These provincial games were then followed by the "Qualifier" system:

  • Round 1 of the qualifiers included all the counties that did not qualify for the Provincial Semi-Finals, except for New York. An open draw was made to give eight pairings.
  • Round 2 consisted of the eight defeated teams in the Provincial Semi-Finals playing against the eight winners from Round 1. A draw was made to determine the eight pairings.
  • Round 3 consisted of the 8 winners from Round 2 playing each other in an open draw format.
  • Round 4 consisted of each of the four teams defeated in the Provincial Finals shall playing against the four winners from Round 3. A draw was made to determine the four pairings.

    • In the All-Ireland Quarter-Finals, each of the four Provincial Champions played one of the four winners from Round 4. The All-Ireland Semi-Finals were determined on a provincial rota basis, initially determined by the Central Council. If a Provincial Championship winning team was defeated in its Quarter-Final, the team that defeats it took its place in the Semi-Final.

    Connacht Senior Football Championship

    Due to an outbreak of foot and mouth disease in the UK, London took no part in the Connacht Senior Football Championship in 2001. The Connacht Council decided the cancel their home Quarter-final game against Mayo

    Quarter-finals

    Semi-finals

    Final

    Munster Senior Football Championship

    Quarter-finals

    Semi-finals

    Final

    Ulster Senior Football Championship

    Preliminary round

    Quarter-finals

    Semi-finals

    Final

    Leinster Senior Football Championship

    First round

    Quarter-finals

    Semi-finals

    Final

    All-Ireland qualifiers

    Round 1

    Round 2

    Round 3

    Round 4

    All-Ireland series

    The provincial champions and the winners of round 4 contested the quarter finals. The quarter final matches would be between a provincial champion and a round 4 winner.

    Quarter-finals

    Semi-finals

    Final

    Miscellaneous

  • In the old championship system the would have been a Tyrone vs Roscommon All Ireland semi final of course.
  • The foot and mouth disease caused London to withdraw from the Championship.

    • References

    2001 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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