The 1972 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the 85th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1972 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.
Match 1 Summary Mick O'Dwyer brought the sides level to force a replay.
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Match 2 Summary Paddy Devlin from Tyrone, who later took charge of the 1974 final, oversaw the replay.
Offaly won the replay.
Tony McTague scored sixteen points in the two games.
Paddy Fenning scored Offaly's goal.
This was Kerry's biggest ever defeat in an All-Ireland final.
It was also the last time Micks O'Connell and O'Dwyer played at Croke Park.
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Offaly (is this the replay or the drawn game?) 1 M. Furlong 2 M. Ryan 3 P. McCormack 4 L. Coughlan 5 E. Mulligan 6 S. Lowry 7 M. Heavey 8 W. Bryan 9 S. Evans 10 S. Cooney 11 K. Kilmurray 12 T. McTague (c) 13 S. Darby 14 J. Smith 15 P. Fenning
Subs used 17 M. Connor for S. Cooney 22 N. Clavin for E. Mulligan 18 M. Wright for L. Coughlan
Subs not used 16 N. Kinnarney 19 L. Hanlon 20 J. Gunning 21 S. Kilroy
Kerry 1 É. Fitzgerald 2 D. O'Sullivan 3 P. O'Donoghue 4 S. Mac Gearailt 5 T. Prendergast (c) 6 M. Ó Sé 7 P. Lynch 8 M. O'Connell 9 J. O'Keeffe 10 B. Lynch 11 D. Kavanagh 12 É. O'Donoghue 13 M. Gleeson 14 L. Higgins 15 M. O'Dwyer
Subs used in drawn game and replay 17 D. Crowley for S. Mac Gearailt 16 P. Griffin for M. Gleeson 18 J. Walsh for B. Lynch
Subs not used 19 J. Saunders 20 M. O'Sullivan 21 G. Power 22 J. Coffey
Trainer J. Culloty
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