The 1972 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the 85th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1972 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.

Mick O'Dwyer brought the sides level to force a replay.

[4] Paddy Devlin from Tyrone, who later took charge of the 1974 final, oversaw the replay.

Tony McTague scored sixteen points in the two games.

[5] It was also the last time Micks O'Connell and O'Dwyer played at Croke Park.