1958–59 National Football League (Ireland)

Gaelic football competition

The 1958–59 National Football League was the 28th staging of the National Football League (NFL), an annual Gaelic football tournament for the Gaelic Athletic Association county teams of Ireland.

Leitrim reached their first and only NFL semi-final, and Derry reached their first final, where they lost to Kerry.

Format

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22 March 1959 Final

Kerry

5-15 — 1-2

Waterford

Clonmel

Team	Pld	W	D	L	Pts	Status
Kerry	4	3	1	0	7	Advance to knockout phase
Carlow	4	2	2	0	6
Cork	4	2	0	2	4
Kildare	4	1	1	2	3
Wexford	4	0	0	4	0

Team	Pld	W	L	Pts
Waterford	3	3	0	6
Clare	3	2	1	4
Tipperary	3	1	2	2
Kilkenny	3	0	3	0

12 April 1959

Derry	3-7 – 1-6	Leitrim

19 April 1959

Kerry	3-8 – 0-5	Offaly

10 May 1959

Kerry	2-8 – 1-8	Derry
Jim Brosnan 1-1; Tom Long 1-0; Dan McAuliffe 0-3; Paudie Sheehy 0-2; Dave Geaney, John Dowling 0-1 each

Croke Park, DublinAttendance: 32,405Referee: M McArdle (Louth)

"For The Record, A History of the National Football and Hurling League Finals", Tom Morrison, Collins Press, 2002, ISBN 9781903464151
GAA Final Teams
Terrace talk 1959
"Terrace Talk :: Kerry Football :: 1959 League".
"Placings in Football League", Irish Independent, 2 March 1959, p.11
"Derry's easy passage to final", Irish Independent, 13 April 1959, p. 13
"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

v t e Kerry – 1959 National Football League Champions (5th title)
1 J. Culloty 2 J. O'Shea 3 Jack Dowling 4 T. Lyons 5 Seán Murphy 6 K. Coffey 7 M. O'Dwyer 8 Mick O'Connell (c) 9 Séamus Murphy 10 D. McAuliffe 11 T. Long 12 P. Sheehy 13 D. Geaney 14 John Dowling 15 T. Lyne

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