High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2012 All-Ireland Football Final, the 125th event of its kind and the culmination of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship 2012, was played at Croke Park, Dublin on 23 September 2012. Donegal and Mayo, widely considered "one of the most novel final pairings of all time", met to decide the destination of the Sam Maguire Cup, with Donegal ultimately emerging victorious as Mayo were yet again undone by "the curse".