1890 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

The 1890 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the fourth staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Previous years All Ireland champions Tipperary didn't take part in the Munster championship cancelled game against Clare. Cork were the champions.^[1][2]

1890 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

All-Ireland Champions
Winning team	Cork (1st win)
Captain	Jim Power
All-Ireland Finalists
Losing team	Wexford
Provincial Champions
Munster	Cork
Leinster	Wexford
Ulster	Armagh
Connacht	Galway
Championship statistics
← 1889 1891 →

Representative clubs

From 1887 until 1891 the club champions represented the whole county.

County	Club
Armagh	Armagh Harps
Cork	Midleton
Dublin	Isle of the Sea
Galway
Kerry	Laune Rangers GAA
Limerick	St. Patricks [3]
Tyrone
Wexford	Blues & Whites

Results

Connacht

Galway were the only entrants, so they received a bye to the All-Ireland semi-final.

Munster

3 August 1890
Quarter-Final

Clare	0–0 – 0–0	Tipperary

Limerick

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3 August 1890
Quarter-Final

Kerry	0–9 – 0–0	Limerick

Tralee^[3]

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17 August 1890
Semi-Final

Cork	0–6 – 0–0	Waterford

Youghal

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14 September 1890
Semi-Final

Kerry	w/o – scr.	Clare

Market's Field

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28 September 1890
Final

Cork	0–0 – 0–0 Unfinished. The ball burst after 57mins of play [4]	Kerry

Raheen, Limerick^[5]

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19 October 1890
Final Replay

Cork	1–4 – 0–1	Kerry

Banteer^[6]

Leinster

1890
Quarter-Final

Dublin	6–11 – 0–2	Westmeath

Clonturk

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1890
Quarter-Final

Wexford	0–2 – 0–2	Kilkenny

Waterford

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1890
Quarter-Final Replay

Wexford	0–0 – 0–0	Kildare

Clonturk

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9 November 1890
Quarter-Final

Laois	0–5 – 0–0	Kildare

Clonturk

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19 October 1890
Semi-Final

Laois	0–1 – 2–8	Dublin

Clonturk

Referee: T Lee (Dublin)

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19 October 1890
Semi-Final

Wexford	0–3 – 0–2	Louth

Clonturk

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2 November 1890
Final

Wexford	1–3 – 1–2	Dublin

Clonturk

Ulster

17 August 1890
Semi-final

Armagh	3–7 – 0–1	Antrim

Armagh

Referee: James Weldon

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12 October 1890
Final

Armagh	2–8 – 1–2	Tyrone

Blaris, Lisburn

Semi-finals

16 November 1890
Semi-Final

Cork	1–15 – 0–0	Armagh

Clonturk

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1890
Semi-Final

Wexford	w/o – scr.	Galway

Final

Main article: 1890 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final

26 June 1892

Cork	2–4 – 0–1	Wexford

Clonturk

Attendance: 1,000

Referee: J. J. Kenny (Dublin)

Statistics

• Cork won both the Munster and All-Ireland titles for the first time. The county was Double All-Ireland champion in both football and hurling; it happened again 100 years later, in 1990.