1962–63 National Football League (Ireland)

1962–63 National Football League
League details
Dates	October 1962 – 21 October 1963
League champions
Winners	Kerry (7th win)
Captain	Niall Sheehy
League runners-up
Runners-up	New York
← 1961–62 1963–64 →

The 1962–63 National Football League was the 32nd staging of the National Football League (NFL), an annual Gaelic football tournament for the Gaelic Athletic Association county teams of Ireland.

New York again got a bye to the final. Kerry beat them by 8 points.^[1]^[2]

Results

Division IV

Final

Kerry v Clare

31 March 1963

Kerry	0-11 – 0-3	Clare

Askeaton^[3]

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	Pts	Status
Kerry	4	3	1	0	7	Advance to Knockout Phase
Kildare	4	2	2	0	6
Carlow	4	2	0	2	4
Cork	4	1	1	2	3
Wexford	4	0	0	4	0

^[4]

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	Pts
Clare	4	3	1	0	7
Limerick	4	3	0	1	6
Tipperary	4	1	1	2	3
Kilkenny	4	1	0	3	2
Waterford	4	1	0	3	2

Knockout Stage

Finals

Kerry v Down

12 May 1963
Home Final

Kerry	0-9 – 1-5	Down
Tom Long, Bernie O'Callaghan 0-3 each; Willie Doran, Mick O'Connell, Mick O'Dwyer 0-1 each

Croke Park, Dublin
Attendance: 57,180^[5]
Referee: P McArdle (Louth)^[5]

Kerry v New York

21 October 1963
Final

Kerry	1-18 – 1-10	New York
Mick O'Dwyer 0-7; Tomo Burke 1-1; Bernie O'Callaghan 0-3; Derry O'Shea, Denis O'Sullivan 0-2 each; Pat Aherne, JD O'Connor, Mick Fleming 0-1 each

Croke Park, Dublin
Referee: Tom Frawley (New York)^[5]

References

↑ GAA Final Teams
↑ Terrace Talk 1963
↑ http://www.terracetalk.com/kerry-football/year/1963/League
↑ "National League Placings", Irish Press, 5 March 1963, p.11
1 2 3 "For The Record, A History of the National Football and Hurling League Finals", Tom Morrison, Collins Press, 2002, ISBN 978-1-903464-15-1

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Finals Records and statistics Winning players

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