1962 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

1962 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning team Kerry (20th win)
Captain Seán Óg Sheehy
Provincial Champions
Munster Kerry
Leinster Dublin
Ulster Cavan
Connacht Roscommon
Championship statistics
No. matches played 31
1961
1963

The 1962 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 76th staging of All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county Gaelic football tournament. The championship began on 29 April 1962 and ended on 23 September 1962.

Games were shown on television for the first time ever.

Kerry won their twentieth All-Ireland title.[1][2][3]


Results

Connacht Senior Football Championship

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Leinster Senior Football Championship

First round

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Munster Senior Football Championship

Quarter-final

Semi-finals

Final

Ulster Senior Football Championship

Preliminary round

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

Semi-finals

Final

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

  • Sligo beat Mayo for the first time since 1947.
  • Football matches were shown on Television for the first time ever.
  • Garry McMahon of Kerry scored the fastest goal ever in an All-Ireland final when he found the net after just 34 seconds against Roscommon.[4]
  • The All-Ireland final between Kerry and Roscommon becomes the first championship game to be broadcast live on Telefís Éireann.

Scorers

Overall
Rank Player County Tally Total Matches Average


Single game
Rank Player County Tally Total Opposition

References

  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-03-21. Retrieved 2011-07-23.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2011-07-23.
  3. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-09-28. Retrieved 2011-09-28.
  4. Fitzgibbon, Gerard (10 September 2011). "Garry McMahon weekend to take place in Abbeyfeale in November". Limerick Leader. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
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