1938 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

The 1938 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 52nd staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Galway won their third title ending Kerry's year.

Format
The All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was run on a provincial basis as usual, with a rotation system of every 3rd season from this year onwards meaning for with the four winners from Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster advancing to the All-Ireland semi-finals. The draw for these games was as follows:
 * Connacht V. Ulster
 * Munster V. Leinster

Miscellaneous

 * The Preliminary Round of the Leinster football championship saw 2 draws and replays, They were the matches between Carlow vs Wicklow and Offaly vs Wexford.
 * Laois become the last team until Offaly (1971-1973) to complete a triple of Leinster titles.
 * The All Ireland semi finals become Rotation of every 3 years from this years on words between the champions of each province.
 * The All-Ireland final for the only time in history ends in a draw and goes to a replay for the 2nd year in a row.

Roll of Honour

 * Dublin - 14 (1923)
 * Kerry - 12 (1937)
 * Wexford - 5 (1918)
 * Kildare - 4 (1928)
 * Tipperary - 4 (1920)
 * Galway - 3 (1938)
 * Cavan - 2 (1935)
 * Limerick - 2 (1896)
 * Cork - 2 (1911)
 * Louth - 2 (1912)
 * Mayo - 1 (1936)