The 2007–08 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship was the 38th staging of the

All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship The All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship is an annual Gaelic football tournament which began in season 1970–71. It is the top-tier competition for the senior football clubs of Ireland and London. The current champions are Cuala of D ...

since its establishment by the

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in 1970-71. The competition began on 14 October 2007 and ended on 17 March 2008.

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entered the competition as defending champion; however, the club was defeated by St Vincent's in the All-Ireland semi-final. On 17 March 2008, St Vincent's won the competition following a 1-11 to 0-13 defeat of

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in the All-Ireland final at

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. It was the club's second championship title overall, and a first title since

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of the St Vincent's club was the competition's top scorer with 3-22.

Connacht

Quarter-final

Semi-finals

Final

Leinster

First round

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Munster

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Ulster

Preliminary round

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Quarter-final

Semi-finals

Final

Statistics

Top scorers

;Overall ;In a single game

Miscellaneous

* Wexford champions

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forfeited home advantage in their preliminary round tie with Moorefield in order to get the game brought forward by a week to facilitate star player Paddy Colfer’s stag party in

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. * Wicklow champions

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did not compete this year due to the late finish of their county championships. * The Leinster Club SFC quarter-finals brought a bizarre refereeing gaffe which brought a premature end to the match between St Vincent's and Seneschalstown in

Parnell Park Parnell Park is a GAA stadium in Donnycarney, Dublin, Ireland with a capacity of 7,300. It is the home of the Dublin GAA hurling, football, camogie and ladies' football teams at all levels of competition. The ground is used mainly by the co ...

. The Dublin champions equalized in the final minute of normal time, before referee Eugene Murtagh blew for full-time shortly afterwards although extra-time had been scheduled. Both teams left the field and the spectators departed, and though a prominent refereeing official attempted to signal the mistake to Murtagh, the message wasn’t delivered in time. With the other quarter-final clash of Moorefield and Dromard at

St Conleth's Park Cedral St Conleth's Park () is a GAA stadium in Newbridge, County Kildare, Ireland. It is the county ground of Kildare's Gaelic football, hurling, and Ladies' Gaelic Football teams. It also served as the town's greyhound racing track from 1948 ...

going to extra-time, the error was accentuated. * After their Leinster Club SFC quarter-final second replay tie with Dromard, Moorefield were hit with three player bans and stripped of home advantage in their next two Leinster club matches for their part in a brawl which broke out on the pitch towards the end of their tie. The first of these two matches were against Tyrrellspass and the next was in 2010 against Portlaoise, the next time they qualified for the Leinster SFC.

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All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship