1966 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

1966 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Championship details
Dates1 May - 25 September 1966
Teams31
All-Ireland Champions
Winning teamGalway (7th win)
CaptainEnda Colleran
ManagerJohn "Tull" Dunne
All-Ireland Finalists
Losing teamMeath
CaptainDave Carty
ManagerPeter McDermott
Provincial Champions
MunsterCork
LeinsterMeath
UlsterDown
ConnachtGalway
Championship statistics
No. matches played32
Top Scorer P. T. Treacy (4-12)
Player of the Year Mattie McDonagh
1965
1967

The 1966 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 80th staging of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county Gaelic football tournament. The championship began on 1 May 1966 and ended on 25 September 1966.

Galway entered the championship as the defending champions in search of a third successive championship title.

On 25 September 1966, Galway won the championship following a 1-10 to 0-7 defeat of Meath in the All-Ireland final.[1] This was their seventh All-Ireland title overall and their third championship in succession.

Fermanagh's P. T. Treacy was the championship's top scorer with 4-12. Galway's Mattie McDonagh was the choice for Texaco Footballer of the Year.

  1. ^ Breheny, Martin (17 September 2010). "1966: Galway power surge seals historic treble". Irish Independent. Retrieved 30 October 2016.