1976 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final

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1976 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final
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Event 1976 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Dublin Kerry
Colours of Dublin.svg Colours of Kerry.svg
3–8
(17)		0–10
(10)
Date26 September 1976
Venue Croke Park, Dublin
Referee Paddy Collins (Westmeath)
Attendance73,588
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The 1976 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the 89th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1976 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.

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This was one of six All-Ireland SFC finals contested by both Dublin and Kerry between 1974 and 1986, a period when one of either team always contested the decider. [1]

Match

Summary

Dublin won the second of the famous Kerry–Dublin 1970s duels with a seven-point win, goals coming from John McCarthy, Jimmy Keaveney, and Brian Mullins. [2] It was Dublin's first championship win over Kerry since 1934. [3] [4]

Dublin manager Kevin Heffernan declared: "I've waited 21 years for this". [3]

Kerry blamed a cancelled training session. The players asked for this because of "fatigue" though they also wished to take up a Beamish and Crawford invitation to the Tralee Races. [3]

Details

26 September 1976
Final		 Dublin 3–8 – 0–10 Kerry Croke Park, Dublin
Attendance: 73,588
Referee: Paddy Collins (Westmeath)
J Keaveney 1–2, J McCarthy 1–1, B Mullins 1–1, B Brogan 0–1, A O'Toole 0–1, T Hanahoe 0–1, D Hickey 0–1M Sheehy 0–3, P Spillane 0–2, D Moran 0–2, M O'Sullivan 0–1, B Lynch 0–1, J Egan 0–1

Dublin

Subs used
19 F. Ryder for T. Hanahoe
20 P. Gogarty for B. Doyle
Subs not used
16 J. Brogan
17 P. O'Reilly
18 P. Pocock
21 L. Deegan
Manager
K. Heffernan

Kerry

Subs used
21 C. Nelligan for P. O'Mahony
16 S. Walsh for P. McCarthy
17 G. O'Driscoll for M. O'Sullivan
Subs not used
18 J. Long
19 A. O'Keeffe
20 J. Walsh
22 V. O'Connor
23 B. Walsh
Manager
M. O'Dwyer

References

  1. ↑ Crowe, Dermot (30 March 2025). "Marching on together". Sunday Independent . From 1974 to 1986, every final had Kerry or Dublin in it and in six of those they were the final pairing. They shared every All-Ireland going in that time save for Offaly's famous heist of 1982.
  2. ↑ High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
  3. 1 2 3 Hogan, Vincent (31 August 2019). "Kingdom's appetite for mischief can still spook the finest Dublin has to offer". Irish Independent . Independent News & Media . Retrieved 31 August 2019.
  4. ↑ "Flashback - 1976 All-Ireland SFC Final: Dublin v Kerry". GAA.ie. 6 April 2020. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
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