1941 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

The 1941 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 55th staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Kerry won their fifteenth title, moving ahead of in the all-time standings.

Foot-and-mouth disease
There was major disruption to the format of the 1941 championship due to a serious outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in many parts of Munster and south Leinster. The championship was run on a knockout provincial basis as usual; however, there was a certain amount of tweaking required to cope with the situation. Dublin, for instance, did not contest the All-Ireland semi-final as Leinster champions; they were nominated to play the game and their Leinster final against Carlow (which Dublin won) was postponed until November.

Munster Championship format change
Kerry, were a bye team to the Munster final, Cork a bye team to the Munster semi-final, A Preliminary Round game was contested between Tipperary and Waterford - the winners were awarded the Quarter-final against Clare. Limerick refused to take part in the Championship. It was also used in the 1939 championship but this format did not exist again until 1980.

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
The 1941 semi-final replay, held in Tralee, was the last All-Ireland semi-final replay to be held outside Croke Park until the 1983 replay between Cork and Dublin in Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

Miscellaneous

 * Some games were affected by foot and mouth problems. It meant that the Tipperary vs Clare game awarded to Clare without being played & only at least 25 instead of the usual 31-32 teams took part in the championship.
 * Kerry won their second ever three in a row as All Ireland Champions giving a total of 15 titles the most for a year.