1943 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final explained

1943 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final
Event:	1943 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Team1score:	1-6 (9)
Team2score:	1-6 (9)
Date:	26 September 1943
Stadium:	Croke Park
City:	Dublin
Referee:	Peter McKenna (Limerick)
Attendance:	68,023
Previous:	1942

1943 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final replay
Team1score:	2-7 (13)
Team2score:	2-2 (8)
Date:	10 October 1943
Stadium:	Croke Park
City:	Dublin
Referee:	P O Miotain (Wexford)
Attendance:	47,193
Next:	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.^[1]

Cavan finished the replay with fourteen men after Joe Stafford was dismissed with fifteen minutes remaining.^[2]

Notes and References

1. Web site: The story of the 1943 All-Ireland football rescued from a fire. 11 November 2022. RTÉ Sport. 10 November 2022.
2. News: Tom. Kelly. A football life less ordinary. https://web.archive.org/web/20110721121928/http://www.anglocelt.ie/sport/localgaa/articles/2010/02/03/3994540-a-football-life-less-ordinary/. dead. 21 July 2011. The Anglo-Celt. 3 February 2010. In 1943 [Mick Higgins] 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..