1962 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

1962 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Championship details
Dates29 April - 23 September 1962
Teams31
All-Ireland Champions
Winning teamKerry (20th win)
CaptainSeán Óg Sheehy
All-Ireland Finalists
Losing teamRoscommon
CaptainGerry O'Malley
Provincial Champions
MunsterKerry
LeinsterDublin
UlsterCavan
ConnachtRoscommon
Championship statistics
No. matches played31
1961
1963

The 1962 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 76th staging of All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county Gaelic football tournament. The championship began on 29 April 1962 and ended on 23 September 1962.

Games were shown on television for the first time ever.

Down entered the championship as the defending champions, however, they were defeated by Cavan in the Ulster final.

Kerry won their twentieth All-Ireland title.[1][2][3]

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