Dates: | 4 May – 21 September 2003 |
Teams: | 33 |
Year: | 2003 |
Leinster: | Laois |
Munster: | Kerry |
Ulster: | Tyrone |
Connacht: | Galway |
Team: | Tyrone |
Titles: | 1st |
Team2: | Armagh |
Topscorer: | Peter Canavan (1-48) |
Matches: | 65 |
Totalgoals: | 97 (1.49 per game) |
Totalpoints: | 1478 (22.73 per game) |
Next: | 2004 |
The 2003 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 117th staging of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county Gaelic football tournament. The championship began on 4 May 2003 and ended on 28 September 2003.
Armagh entered the championship as the defending champions.[1]
On 28 September 2003, Tyrone won the championship following a 0-12 to 0-9 defeat of Armagh in the All-Ireland final. This was their first All-Ireland title.[2]
Tyrone's Peter Canavan was the championship's top scorer with 1-48. Armagh forward Steven McDonnell was the choice for the Vodafone Footballer of the Year award.
The provincial championships in Munster, Leinster, Ulster and Connacht were run as usual on a "knock-out" basis. These provincial games were then followed by the "Qualifier" system:
The All-Ireland Quarter-finals: Each of the four Provincial Champions played one of the four winners from Round 4. The All-Ireland Semi-finals were played on a Provincial rota basis, initially determined by the Central Council. If a Provincial Championship winning team was defeated in its Quarter-final, the team that defeated it took its place in the semi-final.
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final
Quarter-finals
Semi-final
Final
Preliminary round
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Finals
First round
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final
The provincial champions and the winners of round 4 contested the quarter-finals. The quarter final matches would be between a provincial champion and a round 4 winner.
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final
See main article: article and 2003 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final.
Rank | Player | County | Tally | Total | Matches | Average |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Peter Canavan | Tyrone | 1-48 | 51 | 8 | 6.37 |
2 | Frankie Dolan | Roscommon | 1-38 | 41 | 6 | 6.83 |
Adrian Sweeney | Donegal | 0-41 | 41 | 8 | 5.12 | |
4 | Steven McDonnell | Armagh | 5-25 | 40 | 8 | 5.00 |
Declan Browne | Tipperary | 2-34 | 40 | 4 | 10.00 | |
6 | Oisín McConville | Armagh | 2-33 | 39 | 8 | 4.87 |
7 | Muiris Gavin | Limerick | 0-27 | 27 | 4 | 6.75 |
8 | Brian McDonald | Laois | 2-19 | 25 | 6 | 4.16 |
Paul Finlay | Monaghan | 0-25 | 25 | 4 | 6.25 | |
Colm Quinn | Offaly | 0-25 | 25 | 5 | 5.00 |
Rank | Player | County | Tally | Total | Opposition |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Steven McDonnell | Armagh | 3-4 | 13 | Limerick |
Frankie Dolan | Roscommon | 0-13 | 13 | Kildare | |
3 | Declan Browne | Tipperary | 1-9 | 12 | Carlow |
Frankie Dolan | Roscommon | 0-12 | 12 | Kildare | |
5 | Declan Browne | Tipperary | 0-11 | 11 | Waterford |
Peter Canavan | Tyrone | 0-11 | 11 | Down | |
7 | Dessie Dolan | Westmeath | 1-7 | 10 | Meath |
Oisín McConville | Armagh | 1-7 | 10 | Waterford | |
9 | Ciaran McManus | Offaly | 3-0 | 9 | London |
Mark Stanfield | Louth | 2-3 | 9 | Wicklow | |
J. P. Rooney | Louth | 2-3 | 9 | Wicklow | |
Dara Ó Cinnéide | Kerry | 1-6 | 9 | Limerick | |
Paddy Bradley | Derry | 1-6 | 9 | Tyrone | |
Peter Canavan | Tyrone | 1-6 | 9 | Down | |
Muiris Gavin | Limerick | 0-9 | 9 | Cork | |
Kevin Madden | Antrim | 0-9 | 9 | Armagh | |
Declan Browne | Tipperary | 0-9 | 9 | Donegal | |
Muiris Gavin | Limerick | 0-9 | 9 | Armagh |