1993 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final

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.

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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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 SO 35' 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]