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| Event | 1933 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship | ||||||
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| Date | 24 September 1933 | ||||||
| Venue | Croke Park, Dublin | ||||||
| Referee | Martin O'Neill (Wexford) | ||||||
| Attendance | 45,188 | ||||||
| Weather | Rain | ||||||
The 1933 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the 46th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1933 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.
Kerry were the reigning champions, having completed the second senior four-in-a-row in 1932, following the Wexford team of 1915–1918. However, Kerry did not qualify for the 1933 decider, having been knocked out of the competition at the semi-final stage. [1]
Cavan became the first Ulster county to win an All-Ireland SFC, with first-half goals by Louis Blessing and "Son" Magee. A record crowd attended the game, with about 5,000 more locked out. [2]
Galway may have lost but they were regarded as a force for the future; this proved true as the following year they won their second All-Ireland SFC title and took the Sam Maguire Cup back to the west for the first time. [3]
| 24 September 1933 Final | Cavan | 2–5 – 2–4 | Galway | Croke Park, Dublin Attendance: 45,188 Referee: Martin O'Neill (Wexford) |
       Cavan |    Galway |
In 1933 Cavan beat Galway in the final by 2 – 5 to 1 – 4, but in defeat the Galway team were hailed as a major force for the future, a prediction that turned out to be accurate as they beat Dublin the following year by 3 – 5 to 1 – 9, the first Galway team to wear the maroon and white colours and the first Galway team to bring the Sam Maguire west. The crowd at the game numbered 36,143.
