1978–79 National Football League (Ireland)

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1978–79 National Football League
League details
Dates October 1978 – 13 May 1979
League champions
Winners Roscommon (1st win)
Captain Danny Murray
Manager Tom Heneghan
League runners-up
Runners-up Cork

The 1978–79 National Football League was the 48th staging of the National Football League (NFL), an annual Gaelic football tournament for the Gaelic Athletic Association county teams of Ireland.

Roscommon won their first and only NFL title with a win over Cork in the final.[1][2][3][4]

Format

Knockout stage qualifiers

  • Division One (North): top 3 teams
  • Division One (South): top 3 teams
  • Division Two (North): winners
  • Division Two (South): winners

Group stage

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Division One (South)

Table

Team Pld W D L Pts Notes
Colours of Cork.svg Cork 5 4 1 0 9 Qualified for Knockout Stages
20px Kerry 5 4 0 1 8
Colours of Kildare.svg Kildare 5 3 0 2 6
Colours of Galway.svg Galway 5 1 2 2 4
20px Dublin 5 1 1 3 3
Colours of Laois.svg Laois 5 0 0 5 0

[5]

Division Two (North) Final

Division Two (South) Final

Knockout stage

Quarter-Finals

1 April 1979
Offaly 3-12 – 1-4 Tyrone

1 April 1979
Roscommon 1-12 – 1-11 Kerry

8 April 1979
Kildare 0-11 – 0-7 Down
Croke Park, Dublin
Attendance: 12,654

8 April 1979
Cork 1-8 – 0-7 Armagh
Croke Park, Dublin[7]
Attendance: 12,654
Referee: K. Campbell Meath

Semi-Finals

15 April 1979
Roscommon 1-14 – 0-13 Offaly

22 April 1979
Cork 2-9 – 0-4 Kildare

Finals

13 May 1979
Final
Roscommon 0-15 – 1-3 Cork
Croke Park, Dublin
Attendance: 29,245[9]
Referee: Hugh Duggan (Armagh)[10]

References

  1. ↑ GAA Final Teams
  2. ↑ GAA Archive 1979
  3. ↑ [1]
  4. ↑ Photo of Danny Murray with cup
  5. ↑ "How They Stand", Irish Independent, 11/12/1978, p. 16
  6. ↑ http://www.terracetalk.com/kerry-football/year/1979/League
  7. ↑ "Missed chances so costly for Armagh", Irish Independent, 8 April 1979, p. 14
  8. ↑ Puirseal, Padraig, "Roscommon are spot on", Irish Press, 15 April 1979, p. 16
  9. ↑ "For The Record, A History of the National Football and Hurling League Finals", Tom Morrison, Collins Press, 2002, ISBN 9781903464151
  10. ↑ "For The Record, A History of the National Football and Hurling League Finals", Tom Morrison, Collins Press, 2002, ISBN 9781903464151

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