The 1994 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the 107th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1994 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.
Match This year's final was played on 18 September.
Summary James McCartan Jnr scored the winning goal to complete an unprecedented Ulster four-in-a-row, and to extend Down's unbeaten final record to five wins out of five.High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998. Down maintained this remarkable record in All-Ireland finals until their sixth appearance in 2010, when Cork defeated them by a score of 0–16 to 0–15.
Down's second All-Ireland football title of the decade following their success in 1991, they were joint "team of the decade" for the 1990s with Meath who won two titles in 1996 and 1999.
This was the last occasion on which a team from Ulster won an All-Ireland SFC until Armagh won the 2002 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final.
Details
Down 1 N. Collins 2 M. Magill 3 B.Burns 4 P. Higgins 5 É. Burns 6 B. Breen 7 D. J. Kane 8 G. McCartan 9 C. Deegan 10 R. Carr 11 G. Blaney 12 J. McCartan 13 M. Linden 14 A. Farrell 15 G. Mason
Sub used 17 G. Colgan for C. Deegan
Subs not used 16 E. Connolly 18 G. Deegan 19 P. Withnell 20 J. Kelly 21 R. Starkey 22 C. McCabe 23 B. Hynes 24 R. Sharvin
Manager P. McGrath
Dublin 1 J. O'Leary 2 P. Moran 3 D. Deasy 4 P. Curran 5 P. Clarke 6 K. Barr 7 M. Deegan 8 B. Stynes 9 J. Sheedy 10 P. Gilroy 11 V. Murphy 12 N. Guiden 13 C. Redmond 14 M. Galvin 15 D. Farrell
Subs used 19 P. Bealin for P. Gilroy 20 S. Cahill for M. Galvin 21 J. Barr for N. Guiden
Subs not used 16 M. Pender 17 L. Walsh 18 G. Regan 22 T. Carr 23 J. Gavin 24 J. Calvert
Manager P. O'Neill
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