1951 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
| All-Ireland Champions | |
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| Winning team | Mayo (3rd win) |
| Provincial Champions | |
| Munster | Kerry |
| Leinster | Meath |
| Ulster | Antrim |
| Connacht | Mayo |
| Championship statistics | |
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The 1951 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 65th staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition.
Mayo won their second All-Ireland in a row.
Mayo have not won an All-Ireland football final since 1951. Legend has it that a priest became incensed when the Mayo team bus returning home from the 1951 final passed by a funeral without showing due respect as they celebrated their All-Ireland win. The priest supposedly cast a spell on Mayo, claiming they would not win another title until all of the team had died. As of August 2013, three of the team that took to the Croke Park pitch for Mayo in 1951 are still alive.
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