Other Senior Football

This page captures other Longford Senior Football games from 1895 to 2025, including:

To filter by different types of Other games, type Tournament into the search field to show all tournament games or type Grounds to show games for opening or redevelopment of GAA Grounds or type Challenge to show other friendly games.

1895 Clarification: In the 1895 Silver Cup Tournament, Longford was represented by the Longford Commercials club while Westmeath was represented by the Mullingar Shamrocks club in the drawn game at Springfield. By the time of the replay at Rathowen, the Longford club had been renamed Longford Shamrocks. 

Croke Cup: Longford competed in Croke Cup competition in 1897 (delayed 1896 competition). The Croke Cups were the first cups used in GAA competition and were used across a number of competitions. In 1896-1897 the Croke Cups were used for the Croke Cup competition winners. from 1898-1901 they were used for All-Ireland Championship winners. In 1902-1903 they were awarded to Provincial Championship winners. In 1906-1908 they were awarded to Croke Cup competition winners. In 1909-1915 they were used for new competition between four beaten provincial finalists. In 1916 the cups were retired.

Gaelic Weekly Cup was organised by Central Council and ran from 1953 to 1967 and was sponsored by Gaelic Weekly magazine. Longford won the cup in 1965 in Croke Park. 

Grounds Tournament was organised by Central Council and ran from 1964 to 1973 and involved the All-Ireland semi-finalists in hurling and football playing the team they didn’t meet in their All-Ireland semi-final that year. Longford reached the final in 1968 in Croke Park. 

John Player Cup was organised by Central Council and ran in 1950’s & 1960’s as an invitational football tournament. Longford took part in 1969.

Centenary Cup was organised by Central Council as a one-off tournament sponsored by Ford, to mark the GAA’s centenary year in 1984. It was followed by the Ford Open Draw Cup in 1985 which was discontinued thereafter. 

Additional Clarifications:

• 1897 Croke Cup: Longford was represented by Longford Shamrocks club.
  
• 1904 Goodwyn & 1905 Croke Cup: Longford represented by Longford Leo Caseys.
  
• 1936 Challenge vs UCG saw Con McGovern (Drumlish) come on a sub for UCG.
  
• 1938 Challenge vs Galway was reffed by Daniel O’Rourke (T.D.) later President of GAA.
  
• 1967 vs St. Vincents (Dublin) abandoned after 45 mins (Longford had only 13 players).
  
• 1969 Glennon Cup final ended in a draw and winner was decided by coin toss.
  
• 1970 Challenge vs Clare saw Liam Mulvihill co-opted to play due to lack of 15 players.
  
• 1976 Opening of Dromard Grounds also 1st playing of Eugene ‘Stevie’ O’Reilly Cup.
  
• 1978 Opening of Kenagh Grounds also 1st playing of Billy Geraty Cup.
  
• 1979 vs Leitrim was supposed to be NFL game, but referee didn’t show up.
  
• 1980 Opening of Rathcline Grounds also 1st playing of John Harte Cup.
  
• 1981 Opening of Mostrim Grounds also 1st playing of McGovern Cup.
  
• 1982 McGovern Cup final was Seán Boylans 1st game in charge of Meath.
  
• 1989 vs Dublin in Croke Park had multiple referees via experimental rules.
  
• 1990 Opening of Legan Sarsfields Grounds played for the Jim McNulty Cup.
• 1991 Challenge vs Offaly was played in four quarters (experimental).
  
• 1991 Challenge vs Laois – No scoreline recorded. Longford lost by 1 point.
• 1993 Challenge in London was to celebrate the 50th anniversary of St. Marys club.
  
• 1995 Billy Geraty Cup final was Eamon Colemans 1st home game as Longford manager.
  
• 2003 Challenge vs Leitrim saw Declan Rowley (Killoe) managing the Leitrim team.
  
• 2004 Challenge vs Armagh was the first game played in newly re-developed Pearse Park.
  
• 2004 redevelopment of Longford Slashers grounds marked 50th Anniversary of the club.

Sources: All inter-county match and player records used on this website were researched by our team using newspaper records, and are not taken from any existing databases or datasets. Where gaps exist in past newspaper records, other published records from the era or related to the era are consulted to try and bridge any gaps. 

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