The 1962 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the 75th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1962 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.

[1] Roscommon played Sligo in the 1962 Connacht SFC final and were behind for much of the match.

Sligo were blighted by a sudden string of injuries, missed a '50 while two points ahead in the final minute, and then gifted soon-to-be All-Ireland SFC finalists Roscommon a goal, allowing them to progress at Sligo's expense in what newspaper columnist Eamonn Sweeney described as "one of the great football tragedies in Connacht".

[3] McMahon's goal was the fastest in the history of All-Ireland SFC finals.

[4] Until Garristown man Dean Rock scored for Dublin against Mayo in the 2020 final.