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2007 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final

football match

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ4607871 ↗
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The 2007 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the 120th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 2007 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.

Match

Summary

This was only the second time in the GAA's history that two teams from the same province contested an All-Ireland SFC final (the first was in 2003).

Kerry won by 10 points.

Vincent Hogan wrote on two of the Kerry goals in the Irish Independent: "Cork gave them two beauties. It was like finding a burglar in your house and helping him to bring the boxes down the stairs"; in 2022, Martin Breheny listed it among "five of the worst" All-Ireland SFC finals since 1972.

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“2007 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final” enters the record as football match. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what All-Ireland, Senior and Football can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2007, 2003, 2022, 1972—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around All-Ireland, Senior and Football.
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This entry incorporates text from “2007 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.