Great rivals, Cork and Kerry will turn the 2007 Bank of Ireland Football Championship Final into an all-Munster affair when they meet on a historic occasion in Croke Park on September 16.

The counties have clashed dozens of times in the Munster championship and have also met three times in All-Ireland semi-finals (2002-2005-2006) but this the first time they have qualified for the final in the same year.

Defending champions, Kerry stayed on course to retain their title with a 1-15 to 0-16 win over Dublin in the second semi-final last Sunday and are now in line to become the first team to win the two-in-a-row since 1990. Ironically, Cork were the last team to win the double and they are now in a position to thwart Kerry's ambitions of achieving a similar ambition. Current Cork manager, Billy Morgan was also in charge of Cork when they won the two-in-a-row seventeen years ago.

Incredibly, the final will be 7th championship meeting between the sides in three seasons. They met twice in 2005 with Kerry winning both the Munster final and All-Ireland semi-final. They clashed three times in 2006 when the Munster final finished level before Cork won the replay. However, Kerry gained revenge in the All-Ireland semi-final. Kerry also won this year's Munster final by two points so the scene is set for a cracking final.

Cork have maintained the trend of reaching the All-Ireland final, via the qualifiers, having re-launched their bid after losing to Kerry in the Munster final. Galway (2001), Kerry (2002 and 2006), Armagh (2003) and Tyrone (2005) all reached the final via the qualifiers with Galway (2001), Tyrone (2005) and Kerry (2006) winning the title.

The only year (since the introduction of the qualifying system in 2001) that two provincial champions reached the final was in 2004 when Kerry and Mayo got through.

Kerry will be appearing in the final for the fourth successive year and for the sixth season this decade while Cork are back in the final for the first time since 1999 and are seeking their first title since 1990.

Bank of Ireland has launched an exciting new nationwide competition. Inviting the public to choose their most extraordinary football 'dream team' of the last 15 years, the 'Extraordinary Fifteen' competition is set to create debate up and down the country as self acclaimed pundits compete for the prize of €15,000 and a VIP trip to the Bank of Ireland Football Championship All-Ireland Final on the 16th September 2007.

The competition will run in The Irish Independent and on local radio stations across Ireland. The Irish Independent GAA correspondents will create a dream team of players over the last 15 years. Readers and listeners will then be asked to create their very own dream team and if it matches the pundits' team they could win the fantastic prize.

Entry forms will appear from the 13th to the 27th August 2007 with information also being distributed to GAA clubs across the country. The closing date for the competition is the 31st August 2007.