2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
The 2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 124th edition of the GAA's premier inter-county Gaelic football tournament, played between 31 of the 32 counties of Ireland plus London and New York.
| Championship details | |
|---|---|
| Dates | 2 May – 19 September 2010 |
| Teams | 33 |
| All-Ireland Champions | |
| Winning team | Cork (7th win) |
| Captain | Graham Canty |
| Manager | Conor Counihan |
| All-Ireland Finalists | |
| Losing team | Down |
| Captain | Brendan Coulter and Ambrose Rogers |
| Manager | James McCartan Jnr |
| Provincial Champions | |
| Munster | Kerry |
| Leinster | Meath |
| Ulster | Tyrone |
| Connacht | Roscommon |
| Championship statistics | |
| No. matches played | 64 |
| Goals total | 107 (1.67 per game) |
| Points total | 1638 (25.59 per game) |
| Top Scorer | Johnny Doyle (1-49) |
| Player of the Year | Bernard Brogan |
← 2009 2011 → | |
The draw for the championship took place on 22 October 2009. The championship began on 2 May 2010 and concluded with the All-Ireland final at Croke Park on 19 September 2010. Cork defeated Down by 0-16 to 0-15 to win their seventh All-Ireland senior title, and their first since 1990.
The 2010 championship was unusual in that all four provincial champions (Kerry, Meath, Roscommon and Tyrone) were knocked out in the All-Ireland quarter-finals, and all four provincial runners-up (Limerick, Louth, Sligo and Monaghan) were eliminated in the fourth and final round of the All-Ireland qualifiers. Kerry and Sligo were defeated by Down, Meath and Monaghan by Kildare, Roscommon and Limerick by Cork, and Tyrone and Louth by Dublin. Cork then defeated Dublin in the first All-Ireland semi-final, before Down defeated Kildare in the second.