1943 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final

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.

1943 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final

Event	1943 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Roscommon Cavan 1–6 (9) 1–6 (9)
Date	26 September 1943
Venue	Croke Park, Dublin
Referee	Patrick McKenna (Limerick)
Attendance	68,023
← 1942

1943 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final replay

Roscommon Cavan 2–7 (13) 2–2 (8)
Date	10 October 1943
Venue	Croke Park, Dublin
Referee	P O Miotain (Wexford)
Attendance	47,193
1944 →

The Roscommon team that won the competition

Matches

Summary

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]

Details

Roscommon (is the replay or the drawn game?)

• 1 F. Glynn
• 2 L. Cummins
• 3 J. P. O'Callaghan
• 4 B. Jackson
• 5 B. Lynch
• 6 B. Carlos
• 7 B. Heavey
• 8 E. Boland
• 9 L. Gilmartin
• 10 P. Murray
• 11 J Murray (c)
• 12 D. Keenan
• 13 D. McDermott
• 14 J. McQuillan
• 15 F. Kinlough

Trainer

T. Heneghan