1943 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final

Football match

Event

1943 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

Roscommon	Cavan

1-6 (9)	1-6 (9)

Date

26 September 1943

Venue

Croke Park, Dublin

Referee

Patrick McKenna (Limerick)

Attendance

68,023

← 1942

Football match

1943 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final replay

Roscommon	Cavan

2-7 (13)	2-2 (8)

Date

10 October 1943

Venue

Croke Park, Dublin

Referee

P O Miotain (Wexford)

Attendance

47,193

1944 →

The 1943 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the 56th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1943 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.

Roscommon defeated Cavan after a replay to win their first title.^[1]

Cavan finished the replay with fourteen men after Joe Stafford was dismissed with fifteen minutes remaining.^[2]

References

^ "The story of the 1943 All-Ireland football rescued from a fire". RTÉ Sport. 11 November 2022. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
^ Kelly, Tom (3 February 2010). "A football life less ordinary". The Anglo-Celt. Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. In 1943 [Mick Higgins] was left-half forward on the team that lost to Roscommon in the replayed All-Ireland final. Cavan had finished that game with fourteen players when Joe Stafford had been ordered off with fifteen minutes left.

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

Pre-1928

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Beginning of
Sam Maguire

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Associated competitions

Provincial Championships
Tailteann Cup
Tommy Murphy Cup (formerly)
Minor Championship (final formerly held on same day)

Statistics and awards

v t e Cavan county football team matches
All-Ireland SFC finals	1925 1928 1937 1943 1945 1949 1952

v t e Roscommon county football team matches
All-Ireland SFC finals	1943 1944 1946 1962 1980
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