1993 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final

1993 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final

Event	1993 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Derry Cork 1-14 (17) 2-8 (14)
Date	19 September 1993
Venue	Croke Park, Dublin
Man of the Match	Johnny McGurk
Referee	Tommy Howard (Kildare) [1]
Attendance	64,500
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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 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

19 September 1993

15:30 IST (UTC+1)

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 0-1		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

Croke Park , Dublin

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  HT' 13 Joe Brolly 14 Seamus Downey  58' 15 Enda Gormley Substitutes: 16 Don Kelly 17 Danny Quinn 18 Dermot McNicholl  HT' 19 Karl Diamond 20 Éamonn Burns  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 SO35' 8 Shea Fahy 9 Teddy McCarthy  HT' 10 Don Davis 11 Joe Kavanagh 12 Barry Coffey 13 Colin Corkery  66' 14 John O'Driscoll 15 Mick McCarthy (c)  63' Substitutes: 16 Kevin O'Dwyer 17 Mark Farr 18 Conor Counihan  66' 19 Danny Culloty  HT' 20 Liam Honohan 21 John Cleary  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]

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 ]}

External links

• Match Highlights
• Front Page of Irish Independent 20 September 1993
• My Greatest Game: 1993 All-Ireland winning Derry hero Enda Gormley