The 1889 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the third staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. 1887 All Ireland champions Limerick were not part of the Munster championship. Tipperary were the champions.
Format Only two provincial championship were played: Leinster and Munster. The winners met in the All-Ireland final.
Representative clubs
From 1887 until 1891 the club champions represented the whole county.
County Club Cork Midleton Kerry Laune Rangers Louth Newtown Blues Laois (Queen's County) Maryborough Tipperary Bohercrowe
Results
Leinster
The Wicklow–Laois game was later ordered to be played again, and so the final had to be played again as well.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18192021 1 Jack Rooney (gk)2 James Mooney (c)3 Eugene Clifford4 James Kelly5 Patrick Byrne6 F. Farrell7 Bernard Woods8 Joe Carroll9 James McCann10 John Hughes11 Peter Allen12 Peter Hickey13 J. Dillon14 Robert Allen15 Francis Carroll16 Nick Tiernan17 Paddy Rooney18 Joe Connor19 Pat Finegan20 Thomas Heaney21 Jack Louth
Munster
Final
Statistics Tipperary win the first All-Ireland title.
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