1998-99 National Football League (Ireland)
| League details | |
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| Dates | 1 November 1998 – 9 May 1999 |
| Teams | 33 |
| League champions | |
| Winners | Cork (5th win) |
| Captain | Philip Clifford |
| Manager | Larry Tompkins |
| League runners-up | |
| Runners-up | Dublin |
| Captain | Dessie Farrell |
| Manager | Tommy Carr |
| Other division winners | |
| Division 2A | Kerry |
| Division 2B | Sligo |
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The 1998–99 National Football League, known for sponsorship reasons as the Church & General National Football League, was the 68th staging of the National Football League (NFL), an annual Gaelic football tournament for the Gaelic Athletic Association county teams of Ireland.
Cork beat Dublin in the final. The tournament introduced yellow and red cards to Gaelic football for the first time. It also had an experimental rule forbidding goalkeepers from handpassing the ball — this latter rule was not continued.
The top 16 teams are drawn into sections 1A and 1B. The other 17 teams are drawn into sections 2A and 2B. Each team plays all the other teams in its section once: either home or away. Teams earn 2 points for a win and 1 for a draw.
Teams in both divisions competed for the National Football League title.
Eight teams qualify for the NFL quarter-finals:
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