The 1945–46 National Football League was the 15th staging of the
National Football League, an annual
Gaelic football
Gaelic football ( ga, Peil Ghaelach; short name '), commonly known as simply Gaelic, GAA or Football is an Irish team sport. It is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch. The objective of the sport is to score by kic ...
tournament for the
Gaelic Athletic Association county teams of
Ireland.
The NFL returned after the four-year gap due to
The Emergency /
Second World War. Meath won, beating Wexford in the final.
Format
There were four divisions – Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western. Division winners played off for the NFL title.
League-phase results and tables
Group one (
Dr Lagan Cup
The Dr Lagan Cup was an inter-county Gaelic football competition in the province of Ulster. The competition was discontinued in 1967 when Donegal won the competition. The Lagan Cup was the trophy for a Senior Football League, which at the time wa ...
)
Down, Tyrone, Armagh, Derry, Antrim
Group two
Table
["National Football League", Meath Chronicle, 09/03/1946, p. 3]
Group three
won, from , and
Group four
won, from Leitrim, Sligo, Mayo, Roscommon
Group five
Results
Table
Group Six
Dublin won, from Kildare, Laois, Wicklow, Offaly
Knockout phase
Inter-group play-offs
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Semi-final
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Final
References
National Football League
National Football League
National Football League (Ireland) seasons
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