1972 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final
Football match
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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.
Date24 September 1972
VenueCroke Park, Dublin
| Event | 1972 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship | ||||||
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| Date | 24 September 1972 | ||||||
| Venue | Croke Park, Dublin | ||||||
| Referee | Fintan Tierney (Cavan)[1][2] | ||||||
| Attendance | 72,032 | ||||||
Match 1
Summary
Mick O'Dwyer brought the sides level to force a replay.[4]
Details
Final
Match 2
Summary
Paddy Devlin from Tyrone, who later took charge of the 1974 final, oversaw the replay.[3]
Offaly won the replay.
Tony McTague scored sixteen points in the two games.
Paddy Fenning scored Offaly's goal.[5]
This was Kerry's biggest ever defeat in an All-Ireland final.[5]
It was also the last time Micks O'Connell and O'Dwyer played at Croke Park.[6]
Details
Final replay
        Offaly
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Kerry
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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 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