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1993 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final

Field	Value
title	1993 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final
event	[1993 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship](1993-all-ireland-senior-football-championship)
team1	Derry
team1association	[[File:Colours of Derry.svg	40px]]
team1score	1-14
(17)
team2	Cork
team2association	[[File:Colours of Cork.svg	40px]]
team2score	2-8
(14)
date	19 September 1993
stadium	Croke Park
city	Dublin
man_of_the_match1a	Johnny McGurk
referee	Tommy Howard (Kildare)
attendance	64,500
previous	[1992](1992-all-ireland-senior-football-championship-final)
next	[1994](1994-all-ireland-senior-football-championship-final)

(17) (14) The 1993 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the 106th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1993 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship. The match was played in Croke Park in Dublin on 19 September 1993.

Ulster champions Derry took on Munster champions Cork, in what was their first ever meeting in a final. Cork's last title had come in 1990, while Derry had never won the competition, and last contested a final in 1958. Derry won the match by 1–14 to 2–8 to win the Sam Maguire Cup for the first time.

Match summary

Derry won their first and only All-Ireland with a Seamus Downey goal. Cork's Tony Davis was sent off harshly.

Henry Downey captained the victorious Derry team.

Match details

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Billy Morgan

Aftermath

Derry's manager that day was Eamonn Coleman. When Coleman died in 2007, the All-Ireland winning squad formed a guard of honour at his funeral.

Cork player Joe Kavanagh, who also played in their 1999 defeat to Meath, described 1999 as being as bad as 1993.

References

(28 September 2003). "Someone had to walk". [[Sunday Independent (Ireland).
''High Ball'' magazine, issue 6, 1998
(15 April 2020). "Flashback: 1993 All-Ireland SFC Final - Derry v Cork". GAA.ie.
Campbell, John. (14 August 2012). "Derry reach D-day over Brennan's future". Belfast Telegraph.
(14 June 2007). "Big turnout at Coleman's funeral". BBC Sport.
(12 June 2012). "Former Derry manager Coleman dies after long illness". Independent.ie.
Larkin, Brendan. (January 2018). "Gutted Kavanagh says they simply under-achieved". Irish Examiner.

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