1954–55 National Football League (Ireland)

The 1954–55 National Football League was the 24th staging of the National Football League (NFL), an annual Gaelic football tournament for the Gaelic Athletic Association county teams of Ireland.

Dublin beat Meath in the first all-Leinster final.^[1]^[2]^[3]

League Tables

19 December 1954

Armagh	1-5 – 1-1	Donegal

Coalisland^[4]
Referee: S.Deignan Cavan

Team	Pld	W	D	L	Pts	Status
Meath	6	6	0	0	12	Qualified for knockout stage
Cavan	6	4	0	2	8
Mayo	4	3	0	1	6
Westmeath	6	3	0	3	6
Longford	6	1	1	4	3
Leitrim	4	0	1	3	1
Sligo	4	0	0	4	0

Team	Pld	W	D	L	Pts	Status
Dublin	6	5	1	0	11	Qualified for knockout stage
Wicklow	6	5	0	1	10
Louth	6	4	0	2	8
Galway	6	3	1	2	7
Offaly	6	2	0	4	4
Laois	5	0	0	5	0
Roscommon	5	0	0	5	0

Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	Status
Kildare	6	5	1	10	Qualified for play-off
Cork	6	5	1	10	Qualified for play-off
Kerry	6	4	2	8
Wexford	6	3	3	6
Carlow	5	2	3	4
Tipperary	6	1	5	2
Waterford	5	0	5	0

3 March 1955

Cork	1-5 – 0-6	Kildare

Cork advance to knockout stages

24 April 1955

Meath	1-9 – 1-8	Armagh

17 April 1955

Dublin	0-12 – 0-9	Cork

8 May 1955
3:15 p.m.

Dublin	2-12 – 1-3	Meath

Croke Park, Dublin
Attendance: 42,916^[11]
Referee: Seán Cleary (Tipperary)^[12]

↑ Mayo results archive, 1954
↑ GAA Final Teams
↑ GAA Archive
↑ "Unpleasant incidents in poor game at Coalisland", Irish Independent, 20 December 1954, p.9
↑ "National League Placings", Irish Press, 31/03/1955, p. 9
↑ "National League Placings", Irish Press, 14/03/1955, p. 8
↑ "National League Placings", Irish Press, 14/03/1955, p. 8
↑ "Cork Take Honours as Kildare miss chances", Irish Independent, 4 March 1955, p.11
↑ "Thrills galore as Meath reach League final", Irish Independent, 25 April 1955, p. 9
↑ "Summary of GAA Results", Irish Independent, 18 April 1955, p. 11
↑ "For The Record, A History of the National Football and Hurling League Finals", Tom Morrison, Collins Press, 2002, ISBN 9781903464151
↑ "For The Record, A History of the National Football and Hurling League Finals", Tom Morrison, Collins Press, 2002, ISBN 9781903464151

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