1993 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final

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1993 All-Ireland Senior Football Final
Event 1993 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Date19 September 1993
Venue Croke Park, Dublin
Man of the Match Johnny McGurk
Referee Tommy Howard (Kildare) [1]
Attendance64,500
1992
1994

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.

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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. [2] [3]

Henry Downey captained the victorious Derry team. [4]

Match details

Derry 1-14 – 2-8 Cork
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 0-1Colin Corkery 0-5 (0-4f), Joe Kavanagh 1-1 (0-1f), John O'Driscoll 1-0, Tony Davis 0-1, Shea Fahy 0-1
Croke Park , Dublin
Attendance: 64,500
Referee: Tommy Howard (Kildare)
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Derry
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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 Sub off.svg HT'
13 Joe Brolly
14 Seamus Downey Sub off.svg 58'
15 Enda Gormley
Substitutes:
16Don Kelly
17Danny Quinn
18 Dermot McNicholl Sub on.svg HT'
19Karl Diamond
20 Éamonn Burns Sub on.svg 58'
21Declan Bateson
22Brian McCormick
23Richard Ferris
24Stephen 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 SO35'
8 Shea Fahy
9 Teddy McCarthy Sub off.svg HT'
10 Don Davis
11 Joe Kavanagh
12 Barry Coffey
13 Colin Corkery Sub off.svg 66'
14 John O'Driscoll
15 Mick McCarthy (c)Sub off.svg 63'
Substitutes:
16 Kevin O'Dwyer
17 Mark Farr
18 Conor Counihan Sub on.svg 66'
19 Danny Culloty Sub on.svg HT'
20 Liam Honohan
21 John Cleary Sub on.svg 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 Joe Kavanagh, who also played in their 1999 defeat to Meath, described 1999 as being as bad as 1993. [7]

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  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
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