The 1938 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 52nd staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Galway won their third title ending Kerry's year.
Format
The All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was run on a provincial basis as usual, with a rotation system of every 3rd season from this year onwards meaning for with the four winners from Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster advancing to the All-Ireland semi-finals. The draw for these games was as follows:
- Connacht V. Ulster
- Munster V. Leinster
Results
Connacht Senior Football Championship
Leinster Senior Football Championship
Munster Senior Football Championship
Ulster Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Championship statistics
Miscellaneous
- The Preliminary Round of the Leinster football championship saw 2 draws and replays, They were the matches between Carlow vs Wicklow and Offaly vs Wexford.
- Laois become the last team until Offaly (1971-1973) to complete a triple of Leinster titles.
- The All Ireland semi finals become Rotation of every 3 years from this years on words between the champions of each province.
- The All-Ireland final for the only time in history ends in a draw and goes to a replay for the 2nd year in a row.
Roll of Honour
- Dublin - 14 (1923)
- Kerry - 12 (1937)
- Wexford - 5 (1918)
- Kildare - 4 (1928)
- Tipperary - 4 (1920)
- Galway - 3 (1938)
- Cavan - 2 (1935)
- Limerick - 2 (1896)
- Cork - 2 (1911)
- Louth - 2 (1912)
- Mayo - 1 (1936)
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