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All-Ireland Senior Football Championship records and statistics

This article contains records and statistics related to the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, which has run since 1887.

General performances

Performance by county

a. London received a bye to the final in five seasons.

Performance by province

Provincial titles

Counties

Consecutive wins

Sextuple

  • Dublin (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020)

Quadruple

  • Wexford (1915, 1916, 1917, 1918)
  • Kerry (1929, 1930, 1931, 1932)
  • Kerry (1978, 1979, 1980, 1981)

Treble

Double

Single

  • Kerry (1909, 1924, 1926, 1937, 1946, 1953, 1955, 1959, 1962, 1975, 1997, 2000, 2004, 2009, 2014, 2022)
  • Dublin (1894, 1942, 1958, 1963, 1974, 1983, 1995, 2011, 2013, 2023)
  • Galway (1925, 1934, 1938, 1956, 1998, 2001)
  • Cork (1890, 1911, 1945, 1973, 2010)
  • Meath (1949, 1954, 1967, 1996, 1999)
  • Tipperary (1889, 1895, 1900, 1920)
  • Tyrone (2003, 2005, 2008, 2021)
  • Louth (1910, 1912, 1957)
  • Cavan (1933, 1935, 1952)
  • Down (1968, 1991, 1994)
  • Limerick (1887, 1896)
  • Kildare (1905, 1919)
  • Donegal (1992, 2012)
  • Armagh (2002, 2024)
  • Wexford (1893)
  • Mayo (1936)
  • Offaly (1982)
  • Derry (1993)

Consecutive All-Ireland Stoppers

Teams that ended All-Ireland winning streaks in the final of the championship.

5-in-a-row

  • Offaly (1982) defeated Kerry

4-in-a-row

Kerry (1924) defeated Dublin

3-in-a-row

Kildare (1905) defeated Kerry

Wexford (1915) defeated Kerry

Kerry (1929, 1978) defeated Kildare in 1929, Dublin in 1978

Meath (1949) defeated Cavan

Tyrone (2008) defeated Kerry

2-in-a-row

Dublin (1891, 1976, 2015, 2023) defeated Cork in 1891 and Kerry in 1976, 2015 and 2023)

Louth (1910) defeated Kerry

Kildare (1927) defeated Kerry

Galway (1938) defeated Kerry

Cavan (1947) defeated Kerry

Meath (1954) defeated Kerry

Down (1960) defeated Kerry

Kerry (1975, 1984) defeated Dublin in 1975 and 1984

Tyrone (2003, 2005) defeated Armagh in 2003 and Kerry in 2005

By semi-final appearances

As of 30 June 2024.

Semi-final appearances (2001–present)

  • Highlighted years indicate the semi final win

By province

Most successful provinces

  • Cavan and Down are the Ulster teams with the most All-Ireland titles.
  • Dublin are the Leinster team with the most All-Ireland titles.
  • Galway are the Connacht team with the most All-Ireland titles.
  • Kerry are the Munster team with the most All-Ireland titles.

Provinces with highest number of different winning counties

The provinces providing the highest number of different winning counties are Leinster and Ulster, with six each. Dublin, Meath, Wexford, Kildare, Offaly and Louth from Leinster have won the title, while Cavan, Down, Tyrone, Donegal, Armagh and Derry are the successful Ulster sides. For Leinster's 12 counties, this represents a success rate of 50%, while Ulster's nine counties gives them a success rate of 67%. Four of Munster's six counties have won the title, giving an identical success rate to Ulster, while three of Connacht's five counties have been successful, a success rate of 60%.

Least successful counties

There are eight counties that have never been represented in a Senior All-Ireland Final. These are Carlow, Fermanagh, Leitrim, Sligo, Westmeath, Wicklow, Longford, and New York. Four of these counties have never competed in a semi-final: Waterford, Westmeath, Wicklow, and New York.

Kilkenny currently do not compete in the All-Ireland Championship, having won three Leinster Senior Football Championships in the past, with the county instead prominent in the sport of hurling but have won the Junior All Ireland in 2022. Carlow also compete in hurling and have won an All-Ireland Senior B Hurling Championship. Westmeath have enjoyed considerable success in hurling in recent years, winning a number of All-Ireland Senior B Hurling Championships and Christy Ring Cups, and their Gaelic football team won the 2004 Leinster Football Championship and the inaugural Tailteann Cup in 2022.

Fermanagh came their closest in 2004, reaching a semi-final replay having defeated 1999 Champions Meath, 2002 Munster Champions Cork, 2003 All-Ireland semi-finalists Donegal and 2002 Champions Armagh. Wicklow's most notable recent achievement was winning the 2012 NFL Division 4 final.

Levels

In the last few years, counties can be divided into four levels or tiers, based on results: Tier 1 counties are consistent participants in the latter stage of the All-Ireland. Tier 2 counties usually compete in the All-Ireland championship or the Tailteann Cup. Tier 3 counties are consistent participants in the Tailteann Cup. Tier 4 counties usually compete in the All-Ireland Junior Football Championship. There is a big gap between Tier 1, 2 and 3 counties and Tier 4 counties. Tier 4 counties also do not participate in the provincial championships.

Tier 1 counties (12): Armagh, Cork, Derry, Donegal, Dublin, Galway, Kerry, Kildare, Mayo, Monaghan, Roscommon, Tyrone

Tier 2 counties (11): Cavan, Clare, Down, Limerick, Longford, Louth, Meath, Offaly, Sligo, Tipperary, Westmeath

Tier 3 counties (10): Antrim, Carlow, Fermanagh, Laois, Leitrim, London, New York, Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow

Tier 4 counties (7): Gloucestershire, Hertfordshire, Lancashire, Kilkenny, Scotland, Warwickshire, Yorkshire

Team participation

Debut of counties

List of All-Ireland SFC counties

The following teams have competed in the All-Ireland SFC for at least one season.

Other records

By decade

The most successful team of each decade, judged by number of All-Ireland titles, is as follows:

  • 1890s: 6 for Dublin (1891, 1892, 1894, 1897, 1898, 1899)
  • 1900s: 5 for Dublin (1901, 1902, 1906, 1907, 1908)
  • 1910s: 4 for Wexford (1915, 1916, 1917, 1918)
  • 1920s: 3 each for Dublin (1921, 1922, 1923) and Kerry (1924, 1926, 1929)
  • 1930s: 5 for Kerry (1930, 1931, 1932, 1937, 1939)
  • 1940s: 3 for Kerry (1940, 1941, 1946)
  • 1950s: 3 for Kerry (1953, 1955, 1959)
  • 1960s: 3 each for Down (1960, 1961, 1968) and Galway (1964, 1965, 1966)
  • 1970s: 4 for Kerry (1970, 1975, 1978, 1979)
  • 1980s: 5 for Kerry (1980, 1981, 1984, 1985, 1986)
  • 1990s: 2 each for Down (1991, 1994) and Meath (1996, 1999)
  • 2000s: 5 for Kerry (2000, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009)
  • 2010s: 7 for Dublin (2011, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)
  • 2020s: 2 each for Dublin (2020, 2023)

and Kerry (2022, 2025)

Finishing positions

  • Most quarter-final finishes
  • 7, Tyrone (2001, 2004, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2016, 2023)
  • 7, Galway (2002, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2014, 2016, 2017)
  • 7, Armagh (2004, 2006, 2008, 2014, 2017, 2022, 2023)

Unbeaten sides

  • 132 teams have won the All-Ireland SFC unbeaten out of a possible 136.

Beaten sides

The introduction of the qualifier system in 2001 has resulted in 4 'back-door' All-Ireland champions:

  • Galway (2001) were beaten by Roscommon in the Connacht semi-finals.
  • Tyrone (2005) were beaten by Armagh in the Ulster final.
  • Kerry (2006) were beaten by Cork in the Munster final.
  • Cork (2010) were beaten by Kerry in the Munster semi-finals.

On a number of occasions a team was defeated twice but have remained in the knockout championship:

  • Tyrone (2018) were beaten by Monaghan and Dublin but still qualified for the knockout stage.
  • Mayo (2019) were beaten by Roscommon and Kerry but still qualified for the knockout stage.
  • Tyrone (2019) were beaten by Donegal and Dublin but still qualified for the knockout stage.
  • Cork (2023) were beaten by Clare and Kerry but still qualified for the knockout stage.
  • Armagh (2023) were beaten by Derry and Tyrone but still qualified for the knockout stage.
  • Tyrone (2023) were beaten by Monaghan and Galway but still qualified for the knockout stage.
  • Roscommon (2023) were beaten by Galway and Kildare but still qualified for the knockout stage.
  • Kildare (2023) were beaten by Dublin twice but still qualified for the knockout stage.
  • Donegal (2023) were beaten by Down and Derry but still qualified for the knockout stage.
  • Monaghan (2023) were beaten by Derry and Donegal but still qualified for the knockout stage.

Final success rate

Only 1 county have appeared in the final, being victorious on all occasions:

  • Limerick (Limerick won the first ever All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final and its 100% success rate has only ever been threatened once - in 1896. It remained intact)

On the opposite end of the scale, six counties have appeared in the All-Ireland final, losing on each occasion:

  • Laois (1889, 1936)
  • Antrim (1911, 1912)
  • Waterford (1898)
  • Clare (1917)
  • Monaghan (1930)
  • London (1900, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1908). In each of London's first four appearances in the Final, they have been the beneficiaries of byes to that stage. From the 1900 Championship to the 1903 Championship, the GAA ran the competition between teams based in Ireland first, with the winners of the 'Home Final' going on to play London in the 'Grand Final'. In 1908 London qualified for the Final by winning the semi-final.

Consecutive participations

  • 0, 000 (0000–0000)

00 have the record number of consecutive participations in the All-Ireland SFC, taking part in the 0 seasons.

Winning other trophies

Although not an officially recognised achievement, a number of teams have achieved the distinction of winning the All-Ireland, their provincial championship and the National Football League all in the same season.

  • 10, Kerry (1929, 1931, 1932, 1959, 1969, 1984, 1997, 2004, 2022, 2025)
  • 6, Dublin (1958, 1976, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018)
  • 2, Down (1960, 1968)
  • 1, Mayo (1936)
  • 1, Cavan (1948)
  • 1, Galway (1965)
  • 1, Meath (1978)
  • 1, Cork (1989)
  • 1, Tyrone (2003)

Biggest wins

Scoring Events (2018–present)

As of 27 June 2024.

  • Most goals in a match:
  • 9 – 2022: Wicklow 5-15 - 4-12 Laois
  • Most points in a match:
  • 45 – 2018: London 1–19 – 2-26 Louth
  • Most goals by one team in a match:
  • 7 – 2020: Wicklow 0-07 - 7-14 Meath
  • Most points by one team in a match:
  • 32 – 2018: Kerry 0-32 - 0-10 Clare
  • Highest aggregate score:
  • 58 points – 2018: Dublin 4-24 - 2-16 Roscommon
  • Lowest aggregate score:
  • 17 points – 2019: Clare 0-09 - 0-08 Waterford

Successful defending

Only 12 teams of the 19 who have won the All-Ireland championship have ever successfully defended the title. These are:

Gaps

  • Longest gaps between successive titles:
  • 45 years: Louth (1912–1957)
  • 34 years: Cork (1911–1945)
  • 32 years: Galway (1966–1998)
  • 28 years: Cork (1945–1973)
  • 23 years: Down (1968–1991)
  • 22 years: Wexford (1893–1915)
  • 22 years: Armagh (2022–2024)
  • 21 years: Cork (1890–1911)
  • 20 years: Cork (1990–2010)
  • 20 years: Donegal (1992–2012)
  • Longest gaps between successive All-Ireland final appearances:
  • 63 years: Kildare (1935–1998)
  • 47 years: Laois (1889–1936)
  • 44 years: Meath (1895–1939)
  • 38 years: Louth (1912–1950)
  • 38 years: Mayo (1951–1989)
  • 35 years: Derry (1958–1993)
  • 34 years: Cork (1911–1945)
  • 25 years: Armagh (1977–2002)
  • 24 years: Armagh (1953–1977)
  • 23 years: Down (1968–1991)
  • Longest gap between successive championship appearances
  • 62 years: London (1913–1975)

Active gaps

  • Longest active gaps between since last title:
  • 128 years: Limerick (1896–)
  • 106 years: Wexford (1918–)
  • 104 years: Tipperary (1920–)
  • 96 years: Kildare (1928–)
  • 80 years: Roscommon (1944–)
  • 73 years: Mayo (1951–)
  • 72 years: Cavan (1952–)
  • 67 years: Louth (1957–)
  • 42 years: Offaly (1982–)
  • 31 years: Derry (1993–)
  • 30 years: Down (1994–)
  • 25 years: Meath (1999–)
  • 23 years: Galway (2001–)
  • 14 years: Cork (2010–)
  • 12 years: Donegal (2012–)
  • 3 years: Tyrone (2021–)
  • 2 years: Kerry (2022–)
  • 1 year: Dublin (2023–)
  • 0 years: Armagh (2024–)
  • Longest active gaps since last All-Ireland final appearance:
  • 128 years: Limerick (1896–)
  • 126 years: Waterford (1898–)
  • 116 years: London (1908–)
  • 112 years: Antrim (1912–)
  • 107 years: Clare (1917–)
  • 106 years: Wexford (1918–)
  • 104 years: Tipperary (1920–)
  • 94 years: Monaghan (1930–)
  • 88 years: Laois (1936–)
  • 72 years: Cavan (1952–)
  • 67 years: Louth (1957–)
  • 44 years: Roscommon (1980–)
  • 42 years: Offaly (1982–)
  • 31 years: Derry (1993–)
  • 26 years: Kildare (1998–)
  • 23 years: Meath (2001–)
  • 14 years: Cork (2010–)
  • 14 years: Down (2010–)
  • 10 years: Donegal (2014–)
  • 3 years: Mayo (2021–)
  • 3 years: Tyrone (2021–)
  • 1 year: Dublin (2023–)
  • 1 year: Kerry (2023–)
  • 0 years: Armagh (2024–)
  • 0 years: Galway (2024–)
  • Longest active gap since last championship appearance
  • 42 years: Kilkenny (1982–)

Provinces

Counties in an All-Ireland final without a provincial title

Bold = Champions

Note: The 1887, 2008 and 2010 finals featured two teams that had not won their provincial championship that year (There were no provincial championships in 1887).

All-Ireland final pairings

Longest undefeated run

  • 45 games - Dublin (2015–2021): The record for the longest unbeaten run stands at 45 games held by Dublin. It began with a 4–25 to 0–10 win against Longford in their opening game of the 2015 championship and finished with a 0–20 to 1–09 win against Kildare in the Leinster final of the 2021 championship. The 45-game unbeaten streak ended with a 0–17 to 0–14 loss after extra-time to Mayo in the 2021 All-Ireland semi-final.

Miscellaneous

  • Best finish by a debuting team
  • Champions, Limerick (1887)
  • Highest winning record in final (3 or more finals)
  • 83%, Down (5 wins in 6 matches)
  • Lowest winning record in final (3 or more finals)
  • 0%, London (0 wins in 5 matches)
  • Most played match
  • Cork vs Kerry

In 2016 Galway became the first team to be knocked out of both Hurling and Football Championships by the same county (Tipperary)in the same season

Disciplinary

  • Galway holds the record of losing a final to a team containing the fewest players, they were beaten by a Dublin team which had been reduced to just 12 players in the All-Ireland Final of 1983.

Fastest goals in Finals

Managers

Winning managers (2002–present)

Players

All-time top scorers

<u>(Those who have accumulated over 166 points)</u>

As of match played 27 July 2025 (21:00)

All-time appearances

As of match played 13 July 2025

Other records

Most wins

Individual scoring

Cillian O'Connor's four goals (accompanied by nine points) in the 2020 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship semi-final at Croke Park broke the 5–3 record set by Johnny Joyce of Dublin in 1960 and matched with 3–9 by Rory Gallagher of Fermanagh in 2002 and O'Connor himself having scored 3-9 vs Limerick in 2018 for the highest individual scorer in any championship football match.

Team results table

This section represents in colour-coded tabular format the results of GAA county teams in the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship since 2001.

Prior to 2001, counties played in separate provincial championships, with only four provincial champions coming together in the All-Ireland semi-finals, and it is difficult to directly compare results across counties. Since 2001, beaten teams from the provincial championships play together in the All-Ireland qualifier series.

However, it must be remembered that counties from the smaller provinces (Connacht with seven county teams and Munster with six) have a slight advantage over those from the larger provinces (Leinster with eleven county teams and Ulster with nine). Under the 2001–19 system they received a bye to the provincial semi-final and thus entered the second round of the qualifiers without winning a game, while counties from the larger provinces have to defeat one or even two opponents to reach the provincial semi-final. In the modern (2023) system a team from a small province can reach the provincial final after winning 1 game, qualifying directly for the All-Ireland group stages, while a team from a large province may need to win 3 games to reach the provincial final.

The old single knockout format was reintroduced in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In 2022 a new competition was introduced, the Tailteann Cup, for teams that finished 17th–32nd in the National Football League and that did not reach their provincial final. These teams go straight into the Tailteann Cup and do not progress to the qualifiers.

Legend

Used in all seasons
  • ♦ — provincial champions
  • — All-Ireland champions
  • — Runners-up (2nd place)
  • — All-Ireland semi-finals (3rd–4th place)
2023–present
  • — All-Ireland quarter-finals (5th–8th place)
  • — All-Ireland preliminary quarter-finals (9th–12th place)
  • — All-Ireland group stage (13th–16th place)
  • — Tailteann Cup top 4 (17th–20th place)
  • TCx — Tailteann Cup, other place (21st–33rd place)
2022
  • — All-Ireland qualifiers, round 2 (9th–12th place)
  • — All-Ireland qualifiers, round 1 (13th–16th place)
2020–21

These are the colour-codes used for 2020 and 2021. X stands for the first letter of the province, e.g. Lpr is Leinster preliminary round, Cf is Connacht final.

  • — Provincial finalists (5th–8th place); Galway in 2020 are not counted as provincial finalists as they did not win any games prior
  • — teams that won two provincial games before being eliminated (9th place)
  • — teams that won one provincial game before being eliminated (8th–16th place)
  • — teams that lost their only game (16th–31st place)
2018–19
  • — All-Ireland "Super 8" quarter-final groups (5th–8th place)
  • — All-Ireland qualifiers, round 4 (9th–12th place)
  • — All-Ireland qualifiers, round 3 (13th–16th place)
  • — All-Ireland qualifiers, round 2 (17th–24th place)
  • q1 — All-Ireland qualifiers, round 1 (25th–32nd place)
2001–17

Quarter-finals were played as single matches between 2001 and 2017.

  • — All-Ireland quarter-finals (5th–8th place)

In 2007 and 2008, teams from Division 4 of the National Football League did not get to play in the qualifiers, instead going straight into the Tommy Murphy Cup, a secondary competition. In those years, there were only three rounds of qualifiers.

  • — All-Ireland qualifiers, round 3 (9th–12th place)
  • — All-Ireland qualifiers, round 2 (13th–16th place)
  • — All-Ireland qualifiers, round 1 (17th–24th place)
  • Cqf, Cqr — Connacht quarter-final or preliminary round (New York did not compete in the qualifiers)
  • TM1 — Tommy Murphy Cup winners (25th place)
  • TM2 — Tommy Murphy Cup finalists (26th place)
  • TMsf — Tommy Murphy Cup semi-finalists (27th–28th place)
  • TMqf — Tommy Murphy Cup quarter-finalists (29th–32nd place)

Table

See also

References