All-Ireland Senior Football Championship 1925

Infobox Football All-Ireland


year=1925
team=Galway
titles=1st
captain=
manager=
munster=Kerry
leinster=Wexford
ulster=Cavan
connacht=Galway
matches=|

The 1925 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was one of the notable championships in GAA history due to huge amount of confusion and chaos that ended in Galway winning their first All-Ireland title

All-Ireland Championship

Everything proceeded as normal from the beginning. In Munster, Kerry claimed another Munster title with 5-05 to 0-00 victory against Clare. Kerry scored an amazing 11-14 in 3 games. In Leinster, perennial power Kildare was seen off in the decider against Wexford, 2-07 to 0-03. In Ulster, Cavan enjoyed a similar dominance that Kerry enjoyed in Munster, crashing in a total of 10-11 on their way to the Ulster title. They enjoyed a 14 point victory against Donegal in the final.

However it was in Connacht, that the real drama took place, defining the Championship. A total of seven replays, many as a result of objections, took place. It was a real saga between Roscommon and Sligo, meeting six times before Sligo prevailed in the final encounter, 2-03 to 0-02. Galway and Leitrim drew twice before Galway decided the affair, 1-05 to 0-04.

From here on, confusion reigned. Mayo defeated Wexford in the All-Ireland semi-final before beating Sligo in the provincial semi-final. The other semi-final saw both Kerry and Cavan disqualified after an objection and a counter-objection. This left Mayo and Galway the only undefeated teams left in the Championship.

The amount of replays had delayed the Connacht final for a long period, by which time Mayo had already beaten Wexford in the semi-final. The final was played at Tuam and Galway defeated Mayo by a scoreline of 1-05 to 1-03. They were later declared All-Ireland Champions for the first time in their history. They would later win the title proper in 1934.

It is has to be said that 1925 was not oone of Gaelic Football's best years.

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