1993 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final

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1993 All-Ireland Senior Football Final
Event1993 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Derry Cork
1-14
(17)		 2-8
(14)
Date19 September 1993
Venue
1994
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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

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.[2][3]

Henry Downey captained the victorious Derry team.[4]

Match details

Derry1-14 – 2-8Cork
Enda Gormley 0-6 (0-3f), Seamus Downey 1-0, Anthony Tohill 0-3 (0-2f), Johnny McGurk 0-2, Brian McGilligan 0-1, Joe Brolly 0-1, Dermot McNicholl 0-1 Colin Corkery 0-5 (0-4f), Joe Kavanagh 1-1 (0-1f), John O'Driscoll 1-0, Tony Davis 0-1, Shea Fahy 0-1
Attendance: 64,500
Referee: Tommy Howard (Kildare)
Derry
Cork
1 Damien McCusker
2 Kieran McKeever
3 Tony Scullion
4 Fergal McCusker
5 Johnny McGurk
6 Henry Downey (c)
7 Gary Coleman
8 Anthony Tohill
9 Brian McGilligan
10 Dermot Heaney
11 Damian Barton
12 Damian Cassidy downward-facing red arrow HT'
13 Joe Brolly
14 Seamus Downey downward-facing red arrow 58'
15 Enda Gormley
Substitutes:
16 Don Kelly
17 Danny Quinn
18 Dermot McNicholl upward-facing green arrow HT'
19 Karl Diamond
20 Éamonn Burns upward-facing green arrow 58'
21 Declan Bateson
22 Brian McCormick
23 Richard Ferris
24 Stephen Mulvenna

Manager:
Eamonn Coleman
1 John Kerins
2 Brian Corcoran
3 Mark O'Connor
4 Niall Cahalane
5 Ciarán O'Sullivan
6 Steven O'Brien
7 Tony Davis SO 35'
8 Shea Fahy
9 Teddy McCarthy downward-facing red arrow HT'
10 Don Davis
11 Joe Kavanagh
12 Barry Coffey
13 Colin Corkery downward-facing red arrow 66'
14 John O'Driscoll
15 Mick McCarthy (c) downward-facing red arrow 63'
Substitutes:
16 Kevin O'Dwyer
17 Mark Farr
18 Conor Counihan upward-facing green arrow 66'
19 Danny Culloty upward-facing green arrow HT'
20 Liam Honohan
21 John Cleary upward-facing green arrow 63'
22 Paul Coleman
23 Pat Hegarty
24 Brian Murphy

Manager:
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.[5][6]

Cork player

1999 defeat to Meath, described 1999 as being as bad as 1993.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Someone had to walk". Sunday Independent. 28 September 2003.
  2. ^ High Ball magazine, issue 6, 1998
  3. ^ "Flashback: 1993 All-Ireland SFC Final - Derry v Cork". GAA.ie. 15 April 2020. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
  4. ^ Campbell, John (14 August 2012). "Derry reach D-day over Brennan's future". Belfast Telegraph. Retrieved 14 August 2012. Lavey, managed by 1993 Derry All-Ireland winning skipper Henry Downey, looked as if they might take control as that goal kept them in touch at 1-5 to 1-4, but in the second-half Kilrea, with their forwards making the most of the scoring chances, ran away to win convincingly by 2-16 to 2-7
  5. ^ "Big turnout at Coleman's funeral". BBC Sport. 14 June 2007. Retrieved 14 June 2007.
  6. ^ "Former Derry manager Coleman dies after long illness". Independent.ie. 12 June 2012. Retrieved 12 June 2012.
  7. ^ Larkin, Brendan (1999). "Gutted Kavanagh says they simply under-achieved". Irish Examiner.[permanent dead link]

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