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1972 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final

Field	Value
title	1972 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final
event	[1972 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship](1972-all-ireland-senior-football-championship)
team1	Offaly
team1association	[[File:Colours of Offaly.svg	40px]]
team1score	1–13
(16)
team2	Kerry
team2association	[[File:Colours of Kerry.svg	40px]]
team2score	1–13
(16)
date	24 September 1972
stadium	Croke Park
city	Dublin
referee	Fintan Tierney (Cavan)
attendance	72,032
previous	[1971](1971-all-ireland-senior-football-championship-final)

(16) (16) (22) (13) The 1972 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the 85th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1972 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.

Match 1

Summary

Mick O'Dwyer brought the sides level to force a replay.

Details

Match 2

Summary

Paddy Devlin from Tyrone, who later took charge of the 1974 final, oversaw the replay.

Offaly won the replay.

Tony McTague scored sixteen points in the two games.

Paddy Fenning scored Offaly's goal.

This was Kerry's biggest ever defeat in an All-Ireland final.

It was also the last time Micks O'Connell and O'Dwyer played at Croke Park.

Details

Offaly (is this the replay or the drawn game?)

1 M. Furlong
2 M. Ryan
3 P. McCormack
4 L. Coughlan
5 E. Mulligan
6 S. Lowry
7 M. Heavey
8 W. Bryan
9 S. Evans
10 S. Cooney
11 K. Kilmurray
12 T. McTague (c)
13 S. Darby
14 J. Smith
15 P. Fenning

;Subs used : 17 M. Connor for S. Cooney : 22 N. Clavin for E. Mulligan : 18 M. Wright for L. Coughlan

;Subs not used : 16 N. Kinnarney : 19 L. Hanlon : 20 J. Gunning : 21 S. Kilroy

Kerry

1 É. Fitzgerald
2 D. O'Sullivan
3 P. O'Donoghue
4 S. Mac Gearailt
5 T. Prendergast (c)
6 M. Ó Sé
7 P. Lynch
8 M. O'Connell
9 J. O'Keeffe
10 B. Lynch
11 D. Kavanagh
12 É. O'Donoghue
13 M. Gleeson
14 L. Higgins
15 M. O'Dwyer

;Subs used in drawn game and replay : 17 D. Crowley for S. Mac Gearailt : 16 P. Griffin for M. Gleeson : 18 J. Walsh for B. Lynch

;Subs not used : 19 J. Saunders : 20 M. O'Sullivan : 21 G. Power : 22 J. Coffey

;Trainer : J. Culloty

References

Fitzpatrick, Paul. (31 August 2011). "No show like a Joe show as McQuillan gets All Ireland". The Anglo-Celt.
(11 January 2008). "Death of former All-Ireland referee Fintan Tierney". Hogan Stand.
Keys, Colm. (13 September 2019). "Scoring the equaliser proves great leveller". [[Independent News & Media]].
(13 July 2022). "An Galbhaile Cumann na Piarsaigh Clubman Sean Hurson to Referee 2022 All Ireland Football Final".
Barry, Stephen. (15 May 2020). "Offaly All-Ireland winner Paddy Fenning passes away after illness". Irish Examiner.
Fogarty, John. (12 September 2019). "Replay readings suggest this will be tight, with a busy referee". [[Irish Examiner]].

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