1933 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

The 1933 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 47th staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Cavan won their first title.^[1][2][3] Were also the first county from the province of Ulster to win. They ended Kerry's 4 year period in the All Ireland semi-final as All Ireland champions.

1933 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

All-Ireland Champions
Winning team	Cavan (1st win)
Captain	Jim Smith
All-Ireland Finalists
Losing team	Galway
Captain	Michael Donnellan
Provincial Champions
Munster	Kerry
Leinster	Dublin
Ulster	Cavan
Connacht	Galway
Championship statistics
← 1932 1934 →

Results

Connacht Senior Football Championship

28 May 1933
Quarter-Final

Galway	2-10 – 0-0	Roscommon

Tuam

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11 June 1933
Semi-Final

Mayo	4-10 – 1-0	Leitrim

Tubbercurry

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2 July 1933
Semi-Final

Galway	4-8 – 0-4	Sligo

Castlerea

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23 July 1933
Final

Galway	1-7 – 1-5	Mayo
		G Ormsby (0-1) & G Courell (1-2).

Castlerea

Leinster Senior Football Championship

7 May 1933
Quarter-Final

Offaly	1-3 – 4-4	Wexford

Croke Park, Dublin

Referee: J Curran

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28 May 1933
Quarter-Final

Louth	4-7 – 1-6	Westmeath

Navan

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28 May 1933
Quarter-Final

Kildare	1-9 – 2-6	Laois
P.Pringle 1-1, P.Byrne 0-3, T.Keogh, P.Martin 0-2, P.Matthews 0-1.

Nowlan Park, Kilkenny

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11 June 1933
Quarter-Final

Dublin	1-8 – 1-4	Meath

Drogheda Park, Drogheda

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11 June 1933
Quarter-Final

Kildare	2-11 – 1-5	Laois
P.Byrne 1-4, T.Keogh 1-2, P.Martin 0-2, H.Burke, M.Behan, J.Higgins 0-1.

Nowlan Park, Kilkenny

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25 June 1933
Semi-Final

Dublin	3-6 – 1-3	Louth

Navan

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2 July 1933
Semi-Final

Kildare	1-8 – 2-8	Wexford
P.Byrne 0-5, T.Keogh 1-0, P.Pringle, P.Martin, H.Burke 0-1.

Croke Park, Dublin

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30 July 1933
Final

Dublin	0-9 – 1-4	Wexford
Murt Kelly 0-3f, Joe Fitzgerald and Peter Synott 0-2 each, Billy Dowling and Paddy Perry 0-1 each		Martin O'Neill 1-2, Jack Fane (0-1f) and Davy Morris 0-1 each

Croke Park, Dublin

Attendance: 16,000

Referee: J.V. Kelly (Longford)

Munster Senior Football Championship

14 May 1933
Quarter-Final

Tipperary	1-11 – 1-2	Clare

Gaelic Grounds, Limerick

Referee: W. Hough (L)

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14 May 1933
Quarter-Final

Cork	4-4 – 4-4	Waterford
D. McCarthy (0-1), J. McKenna (1-2), D. O'Sullivan (2-0) & J. O'Regan (1-0).

Mitchelstown

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2 July 1933
Quarter-Final Replay

Cork	2-7 – 0-1	Waterford
J. Cummins (0-1), W. Lynch (0-3), D. O'Sullivan (1-0), J. McKenna (0-3) & J. O'Regan (1-0).

Fraher Field, Dungarvan

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23 July 1933
Semi-Final

Tipperary	2-9 – 2-2	Cork
		J. McKenna (1-1) & J. O'Regan (1-0).

Ned Hall Park, Clonmel

Referee: S. Moynihan (K)

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13 August 1933
Final

Kerry	2-8 – 1-4	Tipperary
Paul Russell (1-1), Johnny Walsh (0-1), Martin Regan (0-1), Tim Landers (1-0), Jackie Ryan (0-4) & Charlie O'Sullivan (0-1).

Ned Hall Park, Clonmel

Referee: P. O'Donnell (W)

Ulster Senior Football Championship

11 June 1933
Quarter-Final

Antrim	0-3 – 0-3	Tyrone

Coalisland

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18 June 1933
Quarter-Final

Armagh	2-1 – 1-3	Down

Warrenpoint

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25 June 1933
Quarter-Final Replay

Antrim	3-5 – 3-5 A.E.T.	Tyrone

Corrigan Park, Belfast

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25 June 1933
Quarter-Final

Fermanagh	2-3 – 0-3	Monaghan

Belturbet

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9 July 1933
Quarter-Final, 2nd Replay

Antrim	1-2 – 1-8	Tyrone

Omagh

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2 July 1933
Semi-Final

Armagh	0-2 – 1-8	Cavan

Breffni Park, Cavan

Attendance: 2,500

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16 July 1933
Semi-Final

Fermanagh	1-3 – 1-4	Tyrone

Bundoran

Attendance: 6,000

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6 August 1933
Final

Cavan	6-13 – 1-2	Tyrone

Breffni Park, Cavan

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

20 August 1933
Semi-Final

Galway	0-8 – 1-4	Dublin

Cusack Park, Mullingar

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27 August 1933
Semi-Final

Cavan	1-5 – 0-5	Kerry
		Jackie Ryan 0-3, Paul Russell 0-1, Miko Doyle 0-1

Breffni Park, Cavan

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24 September 1933
Final

Cavan	2-5 – 1-4	Galway

Croke Park, Dublin

Attendance: 45,188

Referee: Martin O'Neill (Wexford)

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

• Leitrim withdraw from Connacht championship until 1942.
• Mullingar's Grounds becomes known as Cusack Park, in Mullingar after Michael Cusack.
• Kerry are denied a five-in-a-row by losing the All-Ireland semi-final to Cavan; they would later be denied a five-in-a-row after losing the 1982 final.
• Cavan becomes the first Ulster team to win the All Ireland title.