1898 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

The 1898 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 12th staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Dublin were the winners.^[1][2][3]

1898 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

All-Ireland Champions
Winning team	Dublin (5th win)
Captain	Matt Rea
All-Ireland Finalists
Losing team	Waterford
Provincial Champions
Munster	Waterford
Leinster	Dublin
Ulster	Not played
Connacht	Not played
Championship statistics
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Results

Leinster

1898
Round 1

Meath	2-6 – 0-6	Offaly

Jones's Road, Dublin

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11 July 1898
Round 2

Wexford	2-24 – 0-5	Carlow

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1898
Round 3

Louth	1-7 – 0-3	Meath

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19 March 1899
Round 4

Offaly	2-6 – 1-3	Wicklow

Jones's Road, Dublin

Referee: Charles Brady

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19 November 1899
Quarter-Final

Offaly	0-4 – 1-11	Wexford

Jones's Road, Dublin

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1898
Quarter-Final

Dublin	2-6 – 0-6	Laois

Jones's Road, Dublin

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1900
Semi-Final

Dublin	1-16 – 0-1	Kilkenny

Jones's Road, Dublin

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1900
Semi-Final

Wexford	3-10 – 0-3	Wicklow

Jones's Road, Dublin

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4 February 1900
Final

Dublin	2-6 – 0-0 Unfinished	Wexford

Jones's Road, Dublin

Dublin were awarded the game.

Munster

10 September 1899
Quarter-Final

Limerick	scr. – scr.	Clare

Tipperary^[4]

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1899
Semi-Final

Waterford	0-9 – 0-0	Tipperary

Waterford

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24 September 1899
Final

Waterford	1-3 – 0-4	Cork

Lismore

Final

Main article: 1898 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final

8 April 1900

Dublin	2-8 – 0-4	Waterford

Tipperary

Attendance: 1,000

Referee: J McCarthy (Kilkenny)

Statistics

• Waterford won an only ever Munster SFC final.
• Waterford were represented by Erin's Hope, with a few representatives from Lismore Blackwater Ramblers.
• Limerick and Clare were thrown out because they refused to play their tie at Tipperary.^[5]
• It was Dublin's second two-in-a-row as All-Ireland champions.