2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
| Event | 2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship | ||||||
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| Date | 19 September 2010 | ||||||
| Venue | Croke Park, Dublin | ||||||
| Man of the Match | Daniel Goulding | ||||||
| Referee | David Coldrick (Meath) | ||||||
| Attendance | 81,604 | ||||||
| Weather | Mostly Cloudy 17 °C (63 °F) |
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The 2010 All-Ireland Football Final was the 123rd event of its kind. The last football match of the 2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, it was played between Cork and Down on 19 September 2010 in Croke Park, Dublin.
Cork were victorious, achieving their first All-Ireland Senior Football Championship title since 1990. It was their seventh title in total. This made them the sixth team in two decades to win both the league and championship in the same season. It was the first time since the 2002 final – when Armagh won their first ever title – that a team other than Kerry or Tyrone were declared champions.
This was the last occasion on which iconic broadcaster Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh commentated on a final to a global audience, having announced his retirement days earlier after a six-decade career.
The game was watched by the highest television audience for an All-Ireland Football Final in five years.
This was the first meeting between the sides in an All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final. The one previous All-Ireland Senior Football Championship match between the two sides was a semi-final in 1994 which Down won. They had not met in the National Football League for more than a decade.
2010 was Cork's fifth appearance in the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final since 1993, the most recent of these being 2007 and 2009. They last won the title in 1990.
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