All-Ireland Senior Football Championship records and statistics

Most successful teams

By county

Counties

By decade

• 1890s: 6 for Dublin
• 1900s: 5 for Dublin
• 1910s: 4 for Wexford
• 1920s: 3 each for Dublin and Kerry
• 1930s: 5 for Kerry
• 1940s: 3 for Kerry
• 1950s: 3 for Kerry
• 1960s: 3 each for Down and Galway
• 1970s: 4 for Kerry
• 1980s: 5 for Kerry
• 1990s: 2 each for Down and Meath
• 2000s: 5 for Kerry
• 2010s: 7 for Dublin

  Consecutive Wins

Quintuple

• Dublin

  Quadruple

• Wexford
• Kerry
• Kerry

  Treble

• Dublin
• Dublin
• Dublin
• Kerry
• Galway
• Kerry

  Double

• Dublin
• Dublin
• Kerry
• Kerry
• Kildare
• Roscommon
• Cavan
• Mayo
• Down
• Kerry
• Offaly
• Dublin
• Meath
• Cork
• Kerry

  By semi-final appearances

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.

• Total = Appearances in an All-Ireland Final

  Provinces with highest number of different winning counties

Finals featuring two teams from the same province

• Ulster: Tyrone vs Armagh
• Munster: Kerry vs Cork
• Munster: Kerry vs Cork

  Least successful counties

Final records and statistics

Success rates

• One county currently have a 100% record in their All-Ireland Final appearances.
• * Limerick
• ** Note: 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.
• Historic 100% success rates are:
• * Tipperary
• * Dublin
• * Kildare
• * Roscommon
• * Down
• * Donegal

• On the opposite end of the scale, three counties have appeared in the All-Ireland Final on only one occasion. All three lost.
• * Waterford
• * Clare
• * Monaghan
• Three counties have appeared in the final more than once and lost on each occasion:
• * Laois
• * Antrim
• * London
• ** Note: 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.

  Losing Counties

• Kerry, Cork, Dublin, Galway and Mayo have lost the most All-Ireland Finals.
• * Kerry have lost 23 finals;
• * Cork have lost 16 finals;
• * Dublin have lost 13 finals;
• * Galway have lost 13 finals;
• * Mayo have lost 13 finals.

  Biggest All-Ireland final winning margins

• The five most one sided All-Ireland Finals and their margins of victory:
• * 19 points – 1911: Cork 6-06 – 1-02 Antrim
• * 18 points – 1936: Mayo 4-11 – 0-05 Laois
• * 18 points - 1930: Kerry 3-11 - 0-2 Monaghhan
• * 17 points – 1978: Kerry 5-11 – 0-09 Dublin
• * 14 points – 1900: Tipperary 3-07 – 0-02 London

  Semi final Winning Margins

• The five most one sided All-Ireland Semi-Finals and their margins of victory:
• * 27 points – 1901: Cork 4-16 – 0-01 Mayo
• * 22 points – 1979: Kerry 5-14 – 0-07 Monaghan
• * 21 points - 1904: Kerry 4-10 - 0-01 Cavan
• * 20 points – 1993: Cork 5-15 – 0-10 Mayo
• * 19 points – 1902: Dublin 4-16 – 1-06 Armagh

  Quarter final winning margins

• The five most one sided All-Ireland Quarter-Finals and their margins of victory:
• * 27 points – 2015: Kerry 7-16 – 0-10 Kildare
• * 22 points – 2017: Mayo 4-19 – 0-09 Roscommon
• * 19 points - 2003: Tyrone 1-21 - 0-05 Fermanagh
• * 18 points – 2017: Tyrone 3-17 – 0-08 Armagh
• * 18 points – 2018: Tyrone 4-24 – 2-12 Roscommon

  Munster final winning margins

• The five most one sided Munster Finals and their margins of victory:
• * 23 points – 1919: Kerry 6-11 – 2-00 Clare
• * 21 points – 1931: Kerry 5-08 – 0-02 Tipperary
• * 20 points - 1925: Kerry 5-05 - 0-00 Clare
• * 20 points – 1938: Kerry 4-14 – 0-06 Cork
• * 19 points – 2002: Cork 1-23 – 0-07 Tipperary

  Leinster final winning margins

• The five most one sided Leinster Finals and their margins of victory:
• * 23 points – 2008: Dublin 3-23 – 0-09 Wexford
• * 20 points – 1955: Dublin 5-12 – 0-07 Meath *this is the biggest ever defeat of a reigning All Ireland champion team .
• * 18 points - 1951: 4-09 - 0-03 Laois
• * 18 points – 2018: Dublin 1-25 – 0-10 Laois
• * 16 points – 2014: Dublin 3-20 – 1-10 Meath
• * 16 points – 2019: Dublin 1-17 – 0-04 Meath

  Connacht final winning margins

• The five most one sided Connacht Finals and their margins of victory:
• * 26 points – 2015: Mayo 6-25 – 2-11 Sligo
• * 20 points – 1967: Mayo 4-15 – 0-07 Leitrim
• * 17 points - 1907: Mayo 3-09 - 0-01 Galway
• * 16 points – 1956: Galway 4-08 – 0-04 Leitrim
• * 16 points – 2013: Mayo 5-11 – 0-10 London

  Ulster final winning margins

• The five most one sided Ulster Finals and their margins of victory:
• * 26 points – 1933: Cavan 6-13 – 1-02 Tyrone
• * 21 points – 1923: Cavan 5-10 – 1-01 Monaghan
• * 20 points - 1942: Cavan 5-11 - 1-03 Down
• * 19 points – 1919: Cavan 5-06 – 0-02 Antrim
• * 15 points – 2003: Tyrone 0-23 – 1-05 Down

  Longest gap between successive All-Ireland titles

• Counties that waited more than two decades between winning the All-Ireland.
• * 45 years: Louth
• * 34 years: Cork
• * 32 years: Galway
• * 28 years: Cork
• * 23 years: Down
• * 22 years: Wexford
• * 21 years: Cork
• * 20 years: Donegal

  Longest gap between All-Ireland final appearances

• Counties that waited more than two decades between appearances in the All-Ireland Final.
• * 63 years: Kildare
• * 47 years: Laois
• * 44 years: Meath
• * 38 years: Louth
• * 38 years: Mayo
• * 35 years: Derry
• * 34 years: Cork
• * 25 years: Armagh
• * 24 years: Armagh
• * 23 years: Down

  Disciplinary

Fastest goals

• 35 seconds - Garry McMahon
• 35 seconds - Johnny O'Connor
• 49 seconds - Paul Geaney
• 1 minute - Con O'Callaghan
• 3 minutes - Michael Murphy
• 4 minutes - Alan Dillon
• 5 minutes - Joe Kavanagh
• 6 minutes - Dara Ó Cinnéide

  Players

All-time top scorers

All-time appearances

Other records

Most wins

• Five players have won eight All-Ireland medals on the field of play:
• *Pat Spillane of Kerry: 1975, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1984, 1985, 1986
• *Páidí Ó Sé of Kerry: 1975, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1984, 1985, 1986
• *Mikey Sheehy of Kerry: 1975, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1984, 1985, 1986
• *Denis "Ógie" Moran of Kerry: 1975, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1984, 1985, 1986
• *Ger Power of Kerry: 1975, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1984, 1985, 1986

  Team results table

Legend

• — All-Ireland champions
• — Runners-up
• — All-Ireland semi-finals
• — All-Ireland "Super 8" quarter-final groups
• — All-Ireland qualifiers, round 4
• — All-Ireland qualifiers, round 3
• — All-Ireland qualifiers, round 2
• q1 — All-Ireland qualifiers, round 1
• ♦ — provincial champions

• — All-Ireland quarter-finals

• — All-Ireland qualifiers, round 3
• — All-Ireland qualifiers, round 2
• — All-Ireland qualifiers, round 1
• TM1 — Tommy Murphy Cup winners
• TM2 — Tommy Murphy Cup finalists
• TMsf — Tommy Murphy Cup semi-finalists
• TMqf — Tommy Murphy Cup quarter-finalists

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