This article contains records and statistics related to the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, which has run since 1887.

General performances

Performance by county

a. London received a bye to the final in five seasons.

Performance by province

Provincial titles

Counties

Consecutive wins

Sextuple

Quadruple

Treble

Double

Single

Consecutive All-Ireland Stoppers

Teams that ended All-Ireland winning streaks in the final of the championship.

5-in-a-row

4-in-a-row

Kerry (1924) defeated Dublin

3-in-a-row

Kildare (1905) defeated Kerry Wexford (1915) defeated Kerry Kerry (1929, 1978) defeated Kildare in 1929, Dublin in 1978 Meath (1949) defeated Cavan Tyrone (2008) defeated Kerry

2-in-a-row

Dublin (1891, 1976, 2015, 2023) defeated Cork in 1891 and Kerry in 1976, 2015 and 2023) Louth (1910) defeated Kerry Kildare (1927) defeated Kerry Galway (1938) defeated Kerry Cavan (1947) defeated Kerry Meath (1954) defeated Kerry Down (1960) defeated Kerry Kerry (1975, 1984) defeated Dublin in 1975 and 1984 Tyrone (2003, 2005) defeated Armagh in 2003 and Kerry in 2005

By semi-final appearances

As of 30 June 2024.

Semi-final appearances (2001–present)

By province

Most successful provinces

Provinces with highest number of different winning counties

The provinces providing the highest number of different winning counties are Leinster and Ulster, with six each. Dublin, Meath, Wexford, Kildare, Offaly and Louth from Leinster have won the title, while Cavan, Down, Tyrone, Donegal, Armagh and Derry are the successful Ulster sides. For Leinster's 12 counties, this represents a success rate of 50%, while Ulster's nine counties gives them a success rate of 67%. Four of Munster's six counties have won the title, giving an identical success rate to Ulster, while three of Connacht's five counties have been successful, a success rate of 60%.

Least successful counties

There are eight counties that have never been represented in a Senior All-Ireland Final. These are Carlow, Fermanagh, Leitrim, Sligo, Westmeath, Wicklow, Longford, and New York. Four of these counties have never competed in a semi-final: Waterford, Westmeath, Wicklow, and New York. Kilkenny currently do not compete in the All-Ireland Championship, having won three Leinster Senior Football Championships in the past, with the county instead prominent in the sport of hurling but have won the Junior All Ireland in 2022. Carlow also compete in hurling and have won an All-Ireland Senior B Hurling Championship. Westmeath have enjoyed considerable success in hurling in recent years, winning a number of All-Ireland Senior B Hurling Championships and Christy Ring Cups, and their Gaelic football team won the 2004 Leinster Football Championship and the inaugural Tailteann Cup in 2022. Fermanagh came their closest in 2004, reaching a semi-final replay having defeated 1999 Champions Meath, 2002 Munster Champions Cork, 2003 All-Ireland semi-finalists Donegal and 2002 Champions Armagh. Wicklow's most notable recent achievement was winning the 2012 NFL Division 4 final.

Levels

In the last few years, counties can be divided into four levels or tiers, based on results: Tier 1 counties are consistent participants in the latter stage of the All-Ireland. Tier 2 counties usually compete in the All-Ireland championship or the Tailteann Cup. Tier 3 counties are consistent participants in the Tailteann Cup. Tier 4 counties usually compete in the All-Ireland Junior Football Championship. There is a big gap between Tier 1, 2 and 3 counties and Tier 4 counties. Tier 4 counties also do not participate in the provincial championships. Tier 1 counties (12): Armagh, Cork, Derry, Donegal, Dublin, Galway, Kerry, Kildare, Mayo, Monaghan, Roscommon, Tyrone Tier 2 counties (11): Cavan, Clare, Down, Limerick, Longford, Louth, Meath, Offaly, Sligo, Tipperary, Westmeath Tier 3 counties (10): Antrim, Carlow, Fermanagh, Laois, Leitrim, London, New York, Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow Tier 4 counties (7): Gloucestershire, Hertfordshire, Lancashire, Kilkenny, Scotland, Warwickshire, Yorkshire

Team participation

Debut of counties

List of All-Ireland SFC counties

The following teams have competed in the All-Ireland SFC for at least one season.

Other records

By decade

The most successful team of each decade, judged by number of All-Ireland titles, is as follows:

Finishing positions

Unbeaten sides

Beaten sides

The introduction of the qualifier system in 2001 has resulted in 4 'back-door' All-Ireland champions: On a number of occasions a team was defeated twice but have remained in the knockout championship:

Final success rate

Only 1 county have appeared in the final, being victorious on all occasions: On the opposite end of the scale, six counties have appeared in the All-Ireland final, losing on each occasion:

Consecutive participations

00 have the record number of consecutive participations in the All-Ireland SFC, taking part in the 0 seasons.

Winning other trophies

Although not an officially recognised achievement, a number of teams have achieved the distinction of winning the All-Ireland, their provincial championship and the National Football League all in the same season.

Biggest wins

Scoring Events (2018–present)

As of 27 June 2024.

Successful defending

Only 12 teams of the 19 who have won the All-Ireland championship have ever successfully defended the title. These are:

Gaps

Active gaps

Provinces

Counties in an All-Ireland final without a provincial title

Bold = Champions Note: The 1887, 2008 and 2010 finals featured two teams that had not won their provincial championship that year (There were no provincial championships in 1887).

All-Ireland final pairings

Longest undefeated run

Miscellaneous

In 2016 Galway became the first team to be knocked out of both Hurling and Football Championships by the same county (Tipperary)in the same season

Disciplinary

Fastest goals in Finals

Managers

Winning managers (2013–present)

Players

All-time top scorers

(Those who have accumulated over 166 points)

All-time appearances

Other records

Most wins

Individual scoring

Cillian O'Connor's four goals (accompanied by nine points) in the 2020 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship semi-final at Croke Park broke the 5–3 record set by Johnny Joyce of Dublin in 1960 and matched with 3–9 by Rory Gallagher of Fermanagh in 2002 and O'Connor himself having scored 3-9 vs Limerick in 2018 for the highest individual scorer in any championship football match.

Team results table

This section represents in colour-coded tabular format the results of GAA county teams in the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship since 2001. Prior to 2001, counties played in separate provincial championships, with only four provincial champions coming together in the All-Ireland semi-finals, and it is difficult to directly compare results across counties. Since 2001, beaten teams from the provincial championships play together in the All-Ireland qualifier series. However, it must be remembered that counties from the smaller provinces (Connacht with seven county teams and Munster with six) have a slight advantage over those from the larger provinces (Leinster with eleven county teams and Ulster with nine) — they may receive a bye to the provincial semi-final and thus enter the second round of the qualifiers without winning a game, while counties from the larger provinces have to defeat one or even two opponents to reach the provincial semi-final. The old single knockout format was reintroduced in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2022 a new competition was introduced, the Tailteann Cup, for teams that finished 17th–32nd in the National Football League and that did not reach their provincial final. These teams go straight into the Tailteann Cup and do not progress to the qualifiers.

Legend

These are the colour-codes used for 2020 and 2021. X stands for the first letter of the province, e.g. Lpr is Leinster preliminary round, Cf is Connacht final. Quarter-finals were played as single matches between 2001 and 2017. In 2007 and 2008, teams from Division 4 of the National Football League did not get to play in the qualifiers, instead going straight into the Tommy Murphy Cup, a secondary competition. In those years, there were only three rounds of qualifiers.

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