1946–47 National Football League (Ireland)

1946–47 National Football League
League details
Dates	November 1946 – April 1947
League champions
Winners	Derry (1st win)
Captain	Pat Keenan
Manager	"Master" John Fay
League runners-up
Runners-up	Clare
← 1945–46 1947–48 →

The 1946–47 National Football League was the 16th staging of the National Football League, an annual Gaelic football tournament for the Gaelic Athletic Association county teams of Ireland.

Due to the extremely harsh winter, so many games had to be called off that the NFL was played off as a four-team tournament with Derry, Longford, Wicklow and Clare competing. Derry won their first league title. Although they had traditionally worn red, they wore white jerseys with a red band in the final, and have kept those colours since.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Results

Semi-Final

Clare v Wicklow

30 March 1947

Clare	2-6 – 1-6	Wicklow

Ennis

Derry v Longford

30 March 1947

Derry	2-11 – 2-3	Longford

Derry

Final

Derry v Clare

7 April 1947^[5]

Derry	2-9 – 2-5	Clare

Croke Park, Dublin
Referee: F Brophy (Dublin)^[6]

References

↑ County colours
↑ Mayo results archive
↑ GAA Final Teams
↑ Derry players list
↑ "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

Derry – 1946–47 National Football League Champions (1st title)

1 C. Moran 2 S. Keenan 3 J. Convery 4 J. Hurley 5 J. Murphy 6 S. McCann 7 T.E. McCloskey 8 M. McNaught 9 R. Gribben 10 P. Keenan (captain) 11 F. Niblock 12 L. Higgins 13 P. McErlean 14 J. E. Mullan 15 J. Cassidy Subs P. Mahon L. Smith C. Mahon E. McErlean J. McElhone Manager J. Fay

(Team as 1946-47 NFL final versus Clare)

National Football Leagues

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Finals Records and statistics Winning players

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