2001 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
| Championship details | |
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| Dates | 6 May 2001 – 23 September 2001 |
| Teams | 32 |
| All-Ireland Champions | |
| Winning team | Galway (9th win) |
| Captain | Gary Fahey |
| Manager | John O'Mahony |
| All-Ireland Finalists | |
| Losing team | Meath |
| Captain | Trevor Giles |
| Manager | Sean Boylan |
| Provincial Champions | |
| Munster | Kerry |
| Leinster | Meath |
| Ulster | Tyrone |
| Connacht | Roscommon |
| Championship statistics | |
| No. matches played | 63 |
| Goals total | 122 (1.94 per game) |
| Points total | 1490 (23.65 per game) |
| Top Scorer |
 Pádraic Joyce (3-45) |
| Player of the Year |
Pádraic Joyce Declan Meehan
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The 2001 Bank of Ireland All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 115th staging of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county Gaelic football tournament. The championship began on 6 May 2001 and ended on 23 September 2001.
The format of the championship saw the biggest change in over 100 years with the introduction of the All-Ireland qualifiers. This system saw teams who were defeated in the provincial championships enter a secondary championship and the chance to qualify for the All-Ireland series. The Leinster Championship abandoned its group stage and returned to a straight knockout system. London declined to field a team in the championship due to an outbreak of foot and mouth disease.
Kerry entered the championship as the defending champions, however, they were defeated by Meath in the All-Ireland semi-final.
On 23 September 2001, Galway won the championship following an 0-17 to 0-8 defeat of Meath in the All-Ireland final. This was their ninth All-Ireland title and their first in three championship seasons.
Galway's Pádraic Joyce was the championship's top scorer with 3-45. He was also named as the All-Stars Footballer of the Year, while Declan Meehan was chosen as the Texaco Footballer of the Year.
The provincial championships in Munster, Leinster, Ulster and Connacht ran as usual on a "knock-out" basis. These provincial games were then followed by the "Qualifier" system:
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