1940–41 National Football League (Ireland)
| League details | |
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| Dates | October 1940 – 27 April 1941 |
| League champions | |
| Winners | Mayo (7th win) |
| Captain | Henry Kenny |
| League runners-up | |
| Runners-up | Dublin |
| Captain | P. Holly |
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1945–46 →
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The 1940–41 National Football League was the 14th staging of the National Football League, an annual Gaelic football tournament for the Gaelic Athletic Association county teams of Ireland.
Mayo returned to the league and won a seventh title. Petrol rationing (due to The Emergency / Second World War) made the playing of the NFL prohibitively expensive and difficult and the tournament was suspended until the end of the war.
22 counties competed in the league.
There were four divisions – Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western. Division winners played off for the NFL title.
Down won, from Fermanagh, Tyrone, Derry, Antrim.
Kerry won, ahead of Kildare, Galway, Laois, Offaly, Wexford and Cork.
Dublin won, from Westmeath, Louth, Meath, Longford.
Mayo won, ahead of Cavan, Roscommon, Donegal and Sligo.
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