The 1900 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 14th staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. The Leinster Quarter Final Wexford end Dublin's 3 year All Ireland title. Tipperary were the winners.
Format 1900 saw the introduction of a new All-Ireland format. The four provincial championships would be played as usual. The four champions play in the "Home" championship, with the winners of the Home final going on to face London in the All-Ireland final.
Results
Connacht Connacht Senior Football Championship
Galway were the only entrants, so they received a bye to the Home semi-final.
Leinster Leinster Senior Football Championship
1 Pat Crowley (gk)2 Dan Maher3 Dick Purcell (c)4 Dan Harney5 John O'Shea6 James Cooney7 William Morrissey8 Tom Phelan9 Martin Bowers10 Pat Wall11 Mick Tobin12 Jim Dwyer13 Jim Burke14 Jack O'Neill15 Pat Conway16 Bill O'Toole17 John Hyland 1 Paddy Cluskey (gk)2 Jim Harrison3 Paddy McDonnell (c)4 Jack Clarke5 Dick Murray6 Bill Sherry7 Joe Mooney8 Jim Hughes9 Jimmy Quinn10 Jimmy Martin11 John Gregory12 Johnny Gerrard13 Peter L'Estrange14 Jim Murray15 Chris McCann16 Nick O'Neill17 Eddie Dempsey Kilkenny fielded the Slate Quarry Miners side that won the 1900 Kilkenny Senior Football Championship. Louth were represented by Drogheda Independents, the outgoing Louth county champions.
Munster Munster Senior Football Championship
Ulster Ulster Senior Football Championship
Antrim were the only entrants, so they received a bye to the Home semi-final.
Semi-finals
Tipperary made an objection and were awarded the game.
Final
Statistics
Miscellaneous Connacht and Munster back for the first time since 1892. London become part of the All Ireland Series. Tipperary won the double in football and hurling for the like 5 years before hand in 1895 the last time that it happened until Cork in 1990.
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