1962–63 National Football League (Ireland)

The 1962–63 National Football League was the 32nd staging of the National Football League (NFL), an annual Gaelic football tournament for the Gaelic Athletic Association county teams of Ireland.

New York again got a bye to the final. Kerry beat them by 8 points.^[1]^[2]

Results

31 March 1963

Kerry	0-11 – 0-3	Clare

Team	Pld	W	D	L	Pts	Status
Kerry	4	3	1	0	7	Advance to Knockout Phase
Kildare	4	2	2	0	6
Carlow	4	2	0	2	4
Cork	4	1	1	2	3
Wexford	4	0	0	4	0

Team	Pld	W	D	L	Pts
Clare	4	3	1	0	7
Limerick	4	3	0	1	6
Tipperary	4	1	1	2	3
Kilkenny	4	1	0	3	2
Waterford	4	1	0	3	2

12 May 1963
Home Final

Kerry	0-9 – 1-5	Down
Tom Long, Bernie O'Callaghan 0-3 each; Willie Doran, Mick O'Connell, Mick O'Dwyer 0-1 each

Attendance: 57,180^[5]

Referee: P McArdle (Louth)^[5]

21 October 1963
Final

Kerry	1-18 – 1-10	New York
Mick O'Dwyer 0-7; Tomo Burke 1-1; Bernie O'Callaghan 0-3; Derry O'Shea, Denis O'Sullivan 0-2 each; Pat Aherne, JD O'Connor, Mick Fleming 0-1 each

Referee: Tom Frawley (New York)^[5]

↑ GAA Final Teams
↑ Terrace Talk 1963
↑ http://www.terracetalk.com/kerry-football/year/1963/League
↑ "National League Placings", Irish Press, 5 March 1963, p.11
1 2 3 "For The Record, A History of the National Football and Hurling League Finals", Tom Morrison, Collins Press, 2002, ISBN 978-1-903464-15-1

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