1974 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final

{{Infobox football match

| title = 1974 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final

| image = 1974 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final programme.jpg

| image_size =

| event = 1974 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

| team1 = {{GG|Dublin|football}}

| team1association = 40px

| team1score = 0–14
(14)

| team2 = {{GG|Galway|football}}

| team2association = 40px

| team2score = 1–6
(9)

| details =

| date = 22 September 1974

| stadium = Croke Park

| city = Dublin

| man_of_the_match1a =

| referee = Paddy Devlin (Tyrone)

| attendance = 71,898

| weather =

| previous = 1973

| next = 1975

}}

The 1974 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the 87th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1974 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.

Match

=Summary=

Galway led 1–4 to 0–5 at half-time, with a Michael Rooney goal. Paddy Cullen saved a penalty kick (placed 17th in RTÉ's 2005 series Top 20 GAA Moments) and Kevin Heffernan's Dublin staged a comeback to win by five points.High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998. The penalty save (Liam Sammon took it) occurred at the Canal End of Croke Park.{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/five-other-allireland-final-canal-end-penalty-misses-25967535.html|title=Five other All-Ireland final Canal End penalty 'misses'|newspaper=Irish Independent|publisher=Independent News & Media|date=23 September 2005}}

It was Galway's second consecutive appearance in an All-Ireland SFC final; they lost to Cork in 1973.{{cite news|first=Tom|last=Kenny|url=https://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/38701/the-men-who-first-brought-sam-to-galway|title=The men who first brought Sam to Galway|work=Galway Advertiser|date=14 April 2011|access-date=14 April 2011|quote=Offaly beat us in 1971 by 1 – 14 to 2 – 8, and in 1973, Cork beat us by 3 – 17 to 2 – 13. In 1974, the final score was Dublin 0 – 14 to Galway's 1 – 6, and in 1983 Dublin repeated the victory by 1 – 10 to our 1 – 8.}}

Paddy Devlin, who had previously taken charge of the 1972 replay, was the last Tyrone man to referee an All-Ireland SFC final until Sean Hurson took charge of the 2022 final.{{cite news|url=https://tyronegaa.ie/2022/07/an-galbhaile-cumann-na-piarsaigh-clubman-sean-hurson-to-referee-2022all-ireland-football-final/|title=An Galbhaile Cumann na Piarsaigh Clubman Sean Hurson to Referee 2022 All Ireland Football Final|date=13 July 2022|accessdate=13 July 2022}}

=Details=

{{GAA match

| date = 22 September 1974

| time =

| round = Final

| team1 = {{GG|Dublin|football}}

| score = 0–14 – 1–6

| report =

| team2 = {{GG|Galway|football}}

| goals1 = M Rooney 1–1, T Naughton 0–2, J Duggan 0–1, J Tobin 0–1, J Hughes 0–1

| goals2 = J Keaveney 0–8, B Mullins 0–2, D Hickey 0–2, A O'Toole 0–1, J McCarthy 0–1

| stadium = Croke Park, Dublin

| attendance = 71,898

| referee = Paddy Devlin (Tyrone)

| motm =

}}

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| pattern_so = _skytop

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| socks = 101a56

| title = Dublin

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| pattern_b = _collarwhite

| pattern_ra = _whiteborder

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