Tyrone should have led by more than 0-5 to 0-3 at half-time and despite Oisin McConville's goal, recovered to lead by four with six minutes left.

However, Steven McDonnell hit a goal with two minutes left and seconds later Paul McGrane levelled for Armagh.

Stephen O'Neill hit 10 points for Tyrone. The replay will be at Croke Park on Saturday 23 July (1630 BST).

Tyrone will wonder how they failed to win the game.

Armagh seemed to have accepted defeat when Brian Dooher, unchallenged, was able to swing over a towering point with six minutes remaining.

And while the Orchard County had been denied a seemingly legitimate goal four minutes after half-time when Tyrone goalkeeper John Devine had appeared to carry the ball over his own goal-line, even the most passionate of Armagh fans would surely have acknowledged with five minutes to go that the Red Hands were on their way to a deserved win.

But with two minutes remaining, the previously outstanding Chris Lawn failed to deal with a high ball into the Tyrone defence and the hitherto subdued McDonnell stabbed the ball home from close range.

Amazingly within 30 seconds, Armagh were level with Paul McGrane, so often the unsung hero, coming up trumps again to fire over an equaliser.

At the finish, the Tyrone players looked shellshocked and captain Brian Dooher tried to rally his colleagues and they stood non-plussed on the Croke Park turf.

The first score of the day didn't come until the ninth minute when O'Neill pointed but the Red Hands had already put the Armagh defence under pressure.

Tyrone led by 0-2 to 0-0 when Sean Cavanagh missed a goal chance for the Red Hands with his shot going inches wide after a typical charge through the middle of the defence.

Oisin McConville finally opened Armagh's account in the 23rd with a score which cut Tyrone's lead to 0-4 to 0-1 and McDonnell's '45 further reduced the Red Hand lead in the 26th minute.

Armagh then suffered a blow when John Toal had to be stretchered off with a knee injury.

Tyrone, with O'Neill hitting all their points, should have been further ahead than 0-5 to 0-3 at the break.

Half-time saw the enforced withdrawal of Peter Canavan because of a rib injury and with Martin Penrose also going off, Owen Mulligan and Mark Harte were introduced.

The moment of controversy involving goalkeeper Devine came four minutes after the interval with the Tyrone custodian looking certain to have carried a miss-hit free from Aaron Kernan over his own goal-line.

An O'Neill point with 30 seconds only added to Armagh frustrations as they extended their lead to three points.

With O'Neill continuing his sequence of nothing all the Tyrone scores, the Red Hands led by 0-8 to 0-4 after 44 minutes.

However, McConville's goal got Armagh right back into the contest with the Crossmaglen firing home after McDonnell's close-range shot had been saved by Devine.

Replays suggested that McConville had picked the ball off the ground before blasting the ball to the net.

McDonnell levelled the game two minutes later but to their credit, Tyrone didn't lose their composure and by the 57th minute were ahead by three again after Dooher and Conor Gormley had finally joined O'Neill in the Red Hand scoring statistics.

The game looked over when Dooher extended Tyrone's lead to 0-14 to 1-7 with six minutes of normal time left.

But amazingly, Armagh summoned up a second wind to force the replay on 23 July.

Armagh: P Hearty, A Mallon, F Bellew, E McNulty, A Kernan (0-1), K McGeeney, A O'Rourke, J Toal, P McGrane (0-1), M O'Rourke, T McEntee, O McConville (1-1), S McDonnell (1-2), R Clarke (0-1), B Mallon (0-1). Subs: P McKeever for M O'Rourke 24 mins, P Loughran for J Toal 32, J McEntee (0-1) for T McEntee 50, M Mackin for B Mallon 65, C McKeever for A Kernan 65.

Tyrone: J Devine, R McMenamin, C Lawn, S Sweeney, D Harte, G Devlin, P Jordan, C Gormley (0-1), S Cavanagh (0-1), B Dooher (0-2), B McGuigan, M Penrose, P Canavan, S O'Neill (0-10), E McGinley. Subs: O Mulligan for Canavan (half-time), M Harte for Penrose (half-time), J McMahon for D Harte 60.

Sunday 10 July

Bank of Ireland Connacht SFC final
Galway 0-10 0-8 Mayo

Bank of Ireland Ulster SFC final
Armagh 2-8 0-14 Tyrone

Bank of Ireland Munster SFC final
Cork 0-11 1-11 Kerry

Guinness Liam McCarthy Cup Round Three Group B
Clare 4-14 0-21 Waterford