2012 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

2012 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Championship details
Dates6 May – 23 September 2012
Teams33
All-Ireland Champions
Winning teamDonegal (2nd win)
CaptainMichael Murphy
ManagerJim McGuinness
All-Ireland Finalists
Losing teamMayo
CaptainDavid Clarke
ManagerJames Horan
Provincial Champions
MunsterCork
LeinsterDublin
UlsterDonegal
ConnachtMayo
Championship statistics
No. matches played36
Goals total48 (1.33 per game)
Points total904 (25.11 per game)
Top Scorer Colm McFadden (4-32)
Player of the Year Karl Lacey
2011
2013
Quarter-final, 5 August 2012, Croke Park; Cork v. Kildare
Semi-final, 26 August 2012, Croke Park; Cork v. Donegal

The 2012 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 126th edition of the GAA's premier inter-county Gaelic football tournament, played between 31 counties of Ireland (excluding Kilkenny who only take part in the hurling championship), London and New York.[1]

The 2012 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final took place at Croke Park on 23 September 2012, with Donegal emerging victorious. Having reclaimed the Ulster Senior Football Championship with wins over Cavan, Derry, Tyrone and Down, they met and bet Kerry in the All-Ireland quarter-final, in what was widely considered the game of the Championship.[2] They then overcame Cork in the semi-final and Mayo in the final in Jim McGuinness's second season in charge, allowing team captain Michael Murphy to hold the Sam Maguire Cup aloft.

Colm McFadden finished as the competition's top scorer and Karl Lacey was named the competition's best player.

  1. ^ "All-Ireland Senior Football Championship 2012 (Inter County)". Archived from the original on 30 July 2012. Retrieved 20 September 2011.
  2. ^ Clerkin, Malachy (27 December 2012). "Donegal take a listing vessel and refloat it on a wave of thrilling proportions". The Irish Times. Retrieved 27 December 2012.

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