1966 All-Ireland Junior Football Championship

1966 All-Ireland Junior Football Championship
All Ireland Champions
Winners	London (2nd win)
Captain	Noel O'Reilly
All Ireland Runners-up
Runners-up	Cork
Captain	Bob Honohan
Provincial Champions
Munster	Cork
Leinster	Louth
Ulster	Down
Connacht	Galway
	← 1965 1967 →

The 1966 All-Ireland Junior Football Championship was the 45th staging of the All-Ireland Junior Championship since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1912.

Galway entered the championship as defending champions, however, they were beaten by Down in the All-Ireland semi-final.^[1]

The All-Ireland final was played on 23 October 1966 at the Gaelic Grounds in Limerick, between London and Cork, in what was their second ever meeting in the final. London won the match by 1–06 to 0–08 to claim their second championship title overall and a first tile in 28 years.^[2]^[3]

Results

Leinster Junior Football Championship

Final

(After Extra-Time)

10 August 1966^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]

Louth	3-14 - 3-12	Kildare
Lynch (1-6), Nugent (1-2), Duff (1-2), Judge (0-3), McCarthy (0-1)		J. Kane (1-9), Gleeson (1-2), Dillon (1-0), Conway (0-1)

Croke Park

Referee: K. Kenworthy (Dublin)


GK	1	Dickie Kieran (St Kevin's)
RCB	2	Dermot Drumgoole (St Joseph's)
FB	3	Séamus Kirk (St Bride's)
LCB	4	Jim Mooney (Naomh Máirtín)
RHB	5	Benny Grogan (St Kevin's)
CHB	6	Larry Geraghty (Mattock Rangers)
LHB	7	Joe Gogarty (Geraldines)
MF	8	Donal Matthews (Mattock Rangers)
MF	9	Ollie Geraghty (Mattock Rangers)
RHF	10	Harry McCarthy (Cooley Kickhams)
CHF	11	Kevin Lynch (Geraldines)
LHF	12	Peter Shevlin (Naomh Fionnbarra)
RCF	13	Danny Nugent (Newtown Blues)
FF	14	Jim Judge (Newtown Blues)
LCF	15	Patrick Duff (St Fechin's) (c)
Substitutes:
	16	Peter Donnelly (Stabannon Parnells) for Grogan
	17	Derry Maguire (St Bride's) for Shevlin
	18	Peter Shevlin for O. Geraghty
	19	Gerry McFadden (O'Connells) for Gogarty
	20	Liam Smith (Wolfe Tones) for Matthews
	21	Paddy McGlew (St Fechin's) for Mooney


GK	1	W. Hennessy
RCB	2	T. Kane
FB	3	T. Foley
LCB	4	W. Harris
RHB	5	J.J. Cahill
CHB	6	J. Murphy
LHB	7	S. Brennan
MF	8	J. Kane
MF	9	P. Brereton
RHF	10	J. Dalton
CHF	11	M. Nugent
LHF	12	J. Donoghue
RCF	13	O. Harrington
FF	14	J. Dillon
LCF	15	L. Gleeson
Substitute:
	16	P. Conway for Harrington

All-Ireland Junior Football Championship

All-Ireland semi-finals

14 August 1966^[8]	Cork	0-10 - 0-06	Louth	Cork Athletic Grounds
	T. Bourke (0-5), Sheehan (0-1), Kelleher (0-1), White (0-1), Evans (0-1), Roche (0-1)		Lynch (0-3), McCarthy (0-2), Nugent (0-1)


GK	1	G. McCarthy
RCB	2	J. O'Flynn
FB	3	T. Bermingham
LCB	4	M. Bourke
RHB	5	J. O'Leary
CHB	6	J. O'Halloran
LHB	7	M. Healy
MF	8	J. Downing
MF	9	D. Sheehan
RHF	10	T. Bourke
CHF	11	J. Murphy
LHF	12	C. Roche
RCF	13	C. Kelleher
FF	14	B. Honohan
LCF	15	J. White
Substitutes:
	16	D. McCarthy for Murphy
	17	B. Evans for Downing


GK	1	Dickie Kieran (St Kevin's)
RCB	2	Dermot Drumgoole (St Joseph's)
FB	3	Séamus Kirk (St Bride's)
LCB	4	Jim Mooney (Naomh Máirtin)
RHB	5	Peter Donnelly (Stabannon Parnells)
CHB	6	Larry Geraghty (Mattock Rangers)
LHB	7	Gerry McFadden (O'Connells)
MF	8	Benny Grogan (St Kevin's)
MF	9	Ollie Geraghty (Mattock Rangers)
RHF	10	Harry McCarthy (Cooley Kickhams)
CHF	11	Kevin Lynch (Geraldines)
LHF	12	Peter Shevlin (Naomh Fionnbarra)
RCF	13	Danny Nugent (Newtown Blues)
FF	14	Jim Judge (Newtown Blues)
LCF	15	Patrick Duff (St Fechin's) (c)
Substitutes:
	16	Danny Culligan (St Joseph's) for Kirk
	17	Gerry Kelly (St Bride's) for Drumgoole
	18	Donal Matthews (Mattock Rangers) for Grogan

14 August 1966

Down

0-10 - 1-04

Galway

Páirc Esler

All-Ireland home final

11 September 1966^[9] Home final

Cork

2-12 - 0-08

Down

Croke Park

All-Ireland final

23 October 1966 Final

London

1-06 - 0-08