2014 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final
The 2014 All-Ireland Football Final, the culmination of the 2014 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, was played at Croke Park in Dublin on 21 September 2014. Ulster champions Donegal, last champions in 2012 took on Munster champions Kerry, last champions in 2009.
| Event | 2014 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship | ||||||
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| Date | 21 September 2014 | ||||||
| Venue | Croke Park, Dublin | ||||||
| Man of the Match | Paul Murphy | ||||||
| Referee | Eddie Kinsella (Laois) | ||||||
| Weather | Partly cloudy 17 °C (63 °F) | ||||||
Both sides defeated the previous year's finalists Dublin and Mayo in their semi-finals to set up this match between "the two great football outposts of the west-coast extremities". This was their first encounter on All-Ireland final day, and only the second in 127 years of Championship history, Donegal having defeated Kerry in their previous encounter at the 2012 quarter-final stage. Kerry narrowly won a close game which ended with a scoreline of 2-9 to 0-12.
The game was televised nationally on RTÉ2 as part of The Sunday Game live programme, presented by Michael Lyster from Croke Park, with studio analysis from Joe Brolly, Ciarán Whelan and Colm O'Rourke — the last time until 2019 that the Brolly-O'Rourke-Pat Spillane axis was broken up for live coverage of an All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final.