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1943 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final

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

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.

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

References

1. "The story of the 1943 All-Ireland football rescued from a fire". RTÉ Sport. 11 November 2022. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
2. Kelly, Tom (3 February 2010). "A football life less ordinary". The Anglo-Celt. Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. In 1943 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.

• 1943 in Gaelic football
• 1940s in Dublin (city)
• All-Ireland Senior Football Championship finals
• Cavan county football team matches
• Roscommon county football team matches