1998 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
| Championship details | |
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| Dates | 3 May 1998 – 27 September 1998 |
| Teams | 32 |
| All-Ireland Champions | |
| Winning team | Galway (8th win) |
| Captain | Ray Silke |
| Manager | John O'Mahony |
| All-Ireland Finalists | |
| Losing team | Kildare |
| Captain | Glenn Ryan |
| Manager | Mick O'Dwyer |
| Provincial Champions | |
| Munster | Kerry |
| Leinster | Kildare |
| Ulster | Derry |
| Connacht | Galway |
| Championship statistics | |
| No. matches played | 36 |
| Goals total | 61 (1.69 per game) |
| Points total | 860 (23.89 per game) |
| Player of the Year | Michael Donnellan |
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The 1998 Bank of Ireland All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 112th edition of the GAA's premier Gaelic football competition. The championship began on 3 May 1998 and ended on 27 September 1998.
Galway's 1-14 to 1-10 victory over Kildare in the All-Ireland final meant that the Sam Maguire Cup returned to the county and the province of Connacht for the first time since 1966. This was Galway's eighth All-Ireland triumph in all. Kildare, managed by Mick O'Dwyer, had defeated the 1995 champions Dublin and the 1996 champions Meath to win their first Leinster title since 1956, before defeating the 1997 champions Kerry in the All-Ireland semi-final.
The Ulster, Munster and Connacht championships were conducted as straight knock-out competitions. The Munster football championship for the 2nd year running had Kerry, Cork and Clare as byes to the semi-finals while Limerick, Tipperary and Waterford played a lone-first round game with the bye team in a lone quarter final. The Leinster championship consisted of a round robin format between Westmeath, Wexford, Longford and Carlow to determine the 8th team to play in the Leinster quarter finals. The winners of each provincial competition went on to play in the All Ireland semi-finals.
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