1973 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

1973 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning team Cork (4th win)
Captain Billy Morgan
Manager Donie O'Donovan
Provincial Champions
Munster Cork
Leinster Offaly
Ulster Tyrone
Connacht Galway
Championship statistics
Player of the Year Billy Morgan (Cork)
1972
1974

The All-Ireland Senior Football Championship of 1973 was the 87th edition of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knockout competition. The championship ran from June to September of that year, culminating with the All-Ireland final, held at Croke Park, Dublin on 23 September. The match was contested by Cork and Galway, with Cork taking the title by 3–17 to 2–13. It was Cork's first All-Ireland title since 1945.

Format

The All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was run on a provincial basis as usual, with the four winners from Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster advancing to the All-Ireland semi-finals. The draw for these games was as follows:

Results

Connacht Senior Football Championship

Leinster Senior Football Championship

Munster Senior Football Championship

Ulster Senior Football Championship

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

Top scorers

Overall
Rank Player County Tally Total Matches Average
1 Tony McTague Offaly 1-25 28 4 7.00
2 John Tobin Galway 0-21 21 4 5.25
3 Billy Field Cork 2-14 20 3 6.66
Jimmy Barrett Cork 4-8 20 4 5.00
5 Patsy Hetherington Tyrone 0-18 18 4 4.50
Ray Cummins Cork 0-18 18 4 4.50
7 Seán O'Neill Down 1-14 17 3 5.66
8 Mick O'Dwyer Kerry 1-12 15 2 7.50
9 Jimmy Barry-Murphy Cork 5-1 15 3 5.00
10 Damian Reid Louth 0-14 14 4 3.50
Single game
Rank Player County Tally Total Opposition
1 Billy Field Cork 1-8 11 Clare
Tony McTague Offaly 0-11 11 Meath
3 Willie McGee Mayo 3-0 9 Meath
Éamonn McPartland Fermanagh 3-0 9 Antrim
Gerry McCann Antrim 3-0 9 Fermanagh
Mick O'Dwyer Kerry 1-6 9 Tipperary
Billy Field Cork 1-6 9 Kerry
8 Tommy O'Malley Mayo 2-2 8 Antrim
John Cooney Offaly 2-2 8 Meath
Jimmy Barrett Cork 2-2 8 Kerry
Larry Kerins Armagh 2-2 8 Down
Tony McTague Offaly 0-8 8 Kildare
John Tobin Galway 0-8 8 Offaly
Ray Cummins Cork 0-8 8 Galway

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

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