1949 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

1949 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning teamMeath (1st win)
CaptainBrain Symth
All-Ireland Finalists
Losing teamCavan
CaptainJohn Joe O’Reilly
Provincial Champions
MunsterCork
LeinsterMeath
UlsterCavan
ConnachtMayo
Championship statistics
← 1948
1950 →

The 1949 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 63rd staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition.

Despite Leitrim reaching the Connacht final withdraw from the championship for the next 3 years.

Meath won their first title.[1][2][3] Ending Cavan's bid for 3 in a row.

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