Kerry GAA honours

Kerry are by far the most successful team in the history of Gaelic football. They have won 39 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship and have appeared in countless other All-Ireland Football Finals. Kerry footballers have been garlanded with countless awards and hold numerous individual records in the sport. Pat Spillane received nine All Stars during a glittering career, a feat matched by no other Gaelic footballer, while Tadhg Kennelly is the only holder of both an AFL Premiership medallion and a Senior All-Ireland Championship medal, the highest possible achievement in the sports of Australian rules football and Gaelic football. Here are Kerry's honours.

Gaelic football

All Irelands (94)

• All-Ireland Senior Football Championships: 39
  • 1903, 1904, 1909, 1913, 1914, 1924, 1926, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1946, 1953, 1955, 1959, 1962, 1969, 1970, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1997, 2000, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2014, 2022,2025
• All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championships: 10
  • 1964, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1990, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2008
• All-Ireland Minor Football Championships: 16
  • 1931, 1932, 1933, 1946, 1950, 1962, 1963, 1975, 1980, 1988, 1994, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
• All-Ireland Junior Football Championships: 20
  • 1913, 1915, 1924, 1928, 1930, 1941, 1949, 1954, 1963, 1967, 1983, 1991, 1994, 2006, 2012, 2015, ^[1] 2016, ^[2] 2017, 2018, ^[3] 2019
• All-Ireland Vocational Schools Championships: 9
  • 1973, 1977, 1978, 1986, 1987, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1997

League Titles (23)

• National Football Leagues: 23
  • 1928, 1929, 1931, 1932, 1959, 1961, 1963, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1977, 1982, 1984, 1997, 2004, 2006, 2009, 2017, 2020, 2021, 2022
• National Football Leagues Div 2: 1
  • 2002

Regional

Provincials (216)

• Munster Senior Football Championships: 86
  • 1892, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1919, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1944, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1991, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
• Munster Under-21/Under-20 Football Championships: 28 (Under 20 since 2018)
  • 1962, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1983, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2008, 2017, 2018, 2020
• Munster Minor Football Championships: 49
  • 1931, 1932, 1933, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1954, 1957, 1958, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1970, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2015, ^[4] 2016, ^[5] 2017, ^[6] 2018, 2019, 2020
• Munster Junior Football Championships: 46
  • 1913, 1914, 1915, 1924, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1930, 1931, 1934, 1936, 1938, 1941, 1946, 1947, 1949, 1954, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1963, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1983, 1985, 1991, 1994, 1995, 1997, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, ^[7] 2015, ^[8] 2016, 2017, ^[9] 2018, 2019
• Munster Football League: 1
  • 1926 ^[10]
• McGrath Cup: 6
  • 1996, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2017, 2022
• Dr Croke Cup: 1
  • 1906 ^[11]
• Croke Memorial Tournament: 1
  • 1913 ^[12]
• Railway Cup Football: 2
  • 1927 (all Kerry players), 1931 (all Kerry players)

(Note that the Railway Cup is contested by provincial sides - these are years in which the Munster team consisted entirely of Kerry players).

Individual

Players who won eight All-Ireland SFC medals (5)

• Pat Spillane
• Mikey Sheehy
• Páidí Ó Sé
• Denis "Ogie" Moran
• Ger Power

GAA All Stars Awards (148)

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Kerry has 159 All Stars, as of 2023. 64 different players have won, as of 2023. Pat Spillane won nine All Stars, Colm Cooper won eight and Mikey Sheehy won seven.   denotes that a player also won Footballer of the Year that season. 1971: Donie O'Sullivan 1972: Donie O'Sullivan2nd, Mick O'Connell 1973: John O'Keeffe 1974: Paudie Lynch 1975: Paudie O'Mahony, John O'Keeffe2nd, Ger Power, Mickey "Ned" O'Sullivan, John Egan 1976: Ger O'Keeffe, John O'Keeffe3rd, Ger Power2nd, Mikey Sheehy, Pat Spillane 1977: Pat Spillane2nd, John Egan2nd 1978: John O'Keeffe4th, Paudie Lynch2nd, Ger Power3rd, Pat Spillane3rd, Mikey Sheehy2nd, John Egan3rd 1979: John O'Keeffe5th, Tim Kennelly, Ger Power4th, Seán Walsh, Pat Spillane4th, Mikey Sheehy3rd 1980: Charlie Nelligan, Tim Kennelly2nd, Jack O'Shea, Ger Power5th, Pat Spillane5th, Eoin Liston, John Egan4th 1981: Jimmy Deenihan, Paudie Lynch3rd, Páidí Ó Sé, Jack O'Shea2nd, Seán Walsh2nd, Denis "Ogie" Moran, Pat Spillane6th, Mikey Sheehy4th, Eoin Liston2nd 1982: Páidí Ó Sé2nd, Jack O'Shea3rd, Mikey Sheehy5th, Eoin Liston3rd, John Egan5th 1983: Páidí Ó Sé3rd, Jack O'Shea4th 1984: Páidí Ó Sé4th, Tommy Doyle, Tom Spillane, Jack O'Shea5th, Eoin Liston4th, Pat Spillane7th, Mikey Sheehy6th 1985: Páidí Ó Sé5th, Mick Spillane, Tommy Doyle2nd, Jack O'Shea6th, Pat Spillane8th 1986: Charlie Nelligan2nd, Tommy Doyle3rd, Tom Spillane2nd, Pat Spillane9th, Mikey Sheehy7th, Ger Power6th 1987: Tom Spillane3rd, Ger Lynch 1988: Maurice Fitzgerald 1989: Connie Murphy 1996: Maurice Fitzgerald2nd 1997: Declan O'Keeffe, Séamus Moynihan, Eamonn Breen, Pa Laide,  Maurice Fitzgerald 3rd 2000: Declan O'Keeffe2nd,  Séamus Moynihan 2nd, Mike McCarthy, Darragh Ó Sé, Liam Hassett, Mike Frank Russell 2001: Johnny Crowley 2002: Darragh Ó Sé2nd, Colm Cooper 2004: Diarmuid Murphy, Tom O'Sullivan (Rathmore), Mike McCarthy2nd,   Tomás Ó Sé  , Paul Galvin, Colm Cooper2nd 2005: Diarmuid Murphy2nd, Mike McCarthy3rd, Tomás Ó Sé2nd, Colm Cooper3rd 2006: Marc Ó Sé, Séamus Moynihan3rd, Aidan O'Mahony, Darragh Ó Sé3rd, Paul Galvin2nd,   Kieran Donaghy   2007: Marc Ó Sé 2nd, Tomás Ó Sé3rd, Aidan O'Mahony2nd, Darragh Ó Sé4th, Declan O'Sullivan, Colm Cooper4th 2008: Tomás Ó Sé4th, Declan O'Sullivan2nd, Colm Cooper5th, Kieran Donaghy2nd 2009: Diarmuid Murphy3rd, Tom O'Sullivan (Rathmore)2nd, Tomás Ó Sé5th, Séamus Scanlon,  Paul Galvin 3rd, Tadhg Kennelly, Declan O'Sullivan3rd 2010: Colm Cooper6th 2011: Marc Ó Sé3rd, Bryan Sheehan, Darran O'Sullivan, Colm Cooper7th 2013: Colm Cooper8th, James O'Donoghue 2014: Paul Murphy, Peter Crowley, David Moran, Kieran Donaghy3rd, James O'Donoghue2nd 2015: Brendan Kealy, Shane Enright, Anthony Maher, Donnchadh Walsh 2016: Paul Geaney 2017: Paul Geaney2nd 2018: David Clifford 2019: Tom O'Sullivan (Dingle), David Moran2nd, Seán O'Shea, David Clifford2nd 2021: Tom O'Sullivan (Dingle)2nd, Paudie Clifford, David Clifford3rd 2022: Shane Ryan, Jason Foley, Tadhg Morley, Gavin White, Paudie Clifford2nd, Seán O'Shea2nd,  David Clifford 4th 2023: Tom O'Sullivan (Dingle)3rd, Paudie Clifford3rd, Seán O'Shea3rd,  David Clifford 5th

Texaco Footballer of the Year wins (18)

The following Kerry players were named Texaco Footballer of the Year:

1959: Seán Murphy
1962: Mick O'Connell
1969: Mick O'Dwyer
1979: Tom Prendergast
1975: John O'Keeffe
1978: Pat Spillane
1979': Mikey Sheehy
1980: Jack O'Shea
1981: Jack O'Shea^2nd
1984: Jack O'Shea^3rd
1985: Jack O'Shea^4th
1986: Pat Spillane^2nd
1997: Maurice Fitzgerald
2000: Seamus Moynihan
2004: Colm Cooper
2006: Kieran Donaghy
2007: Marc Ó Sé
2009: Paul Galvin
2014: James O'Donoghue ^[13]

Team of the Millennium (6)

The following Kerry players were among the fifteen selected for the Football Team of the Millennium: ^[14]

• Dan O'Keeffe (goalkeeper)
• Joe Keohane (full-back)
• Seán Murphy (right half-back)
• Mick O'Connell (midfielder)
• Pat Spillane (left half-forward)
• Mikey Sheehy (right corner-forward)

Team of the Century (6)

The following Kerry players were among the fifteen selected for the Football Team of the Century in 1984: ^[15]

• Dan O'Keeffe (goalkeeper)
• Seán Murphy (right half-back)
• Jack O'Shea (midfielder)
• Mick O'Connell (midfielder)
• Pat Spillane (left half-forward)
• Mikey Sheehy (right corner-forward)

Ladies' football

• All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championships: 12
  • 1976, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1993, 2024
• All-Ireland Under-18 Ladies' Football Championship: 3
  • 1980, 1981, 1995
• All-Ireland Under-16 Ladies' Football Championship: 5
  • 1999, 2010, 2015, 2016, 2025
• All-Ireland Under-14 Ladies' Football Championship: 7
  • 1991, 1992, 1993, 1999, 2008, 2014, 2022,

Hurling

• All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championships: 1
  • 1891
• All-Ireland Senior B Hurling Championships : 3
  • 1976, 1983, 1986
• Christy Ring Cup: 2
  • 2011, 2015 ^[16]
• All-Ireland Under 21 B Hurling Championships: 9
  • 2001, 2002, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2017, 2018, 2019
• All Ireland Minor B Hurling Championships: 10
  • 1997, 2000, 2001, 2006, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
• All-Ireland Junior Hurling Championship: 2
  • 1961, 1972
• National Hurling Leagues Division 2: 7
  • 1957, 1962, 1967, 1968, 1979, 1998, 2001
• National Hurling Leagues Division 2A: 2
  • 2014, 2015
• National Hurling Leagues Division 3: 1
  • 1989
• National Hurling Leagues Division 3A: 1
  • 2010
• Munster Senior Hurling Championships: 1
  • 1891
• Munster Junior Hurling Championships: 1
  • 1956
• Munster Intermediate Hurling Championships: 2
  • 1970, 1973
• Leinster Minor B Hurling Championships: 2
  • 1987, 1988

Notable hurlers

Michael ‘Boxer’ Slattery Shane Brick Brendan O'Sullivan John Mike Dooley John Healy John Mahony Tom Collins Maurice Leahy Christy Walsh

Camogie

A selected Kerry team won divisional honours at Féile na nGael in 2008, 2009 and 2010. Notable players include Mary Geaney.

Other

Other notable achievements include:

• Pat Spillane, recipient of nine All Stars during a glittering career, a feat matched by no other Gaelic footballer.
• Tadhg Kennelly, the world's only holder of both an AFL Premiership medallion and a Senior All-Ireland Championship medal, the highest possible achievement in the sports of Australian rules football and Gaelic football.

References

1. "All-Ireland JFC final: Kerry crowned champions". Hogan Stand . 8 August 2015. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
2. "All-Ireland JFC final: back-to-back titles for Kerry". Hogan Stand . 6 August 2016. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
3. "Keane praises his crew after Kerry land 19th junior crown". Irish Independent . 23 July 2018. Retrieved 23 July 2018.
4. "Geaney turns on style for Kingdom". Irish Examiner . 6 July 2015. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
5. "No stopping Kerry minors' Munster dominance". Irish Examiner . 4 July 2016. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
6. "Clifford and O'Sullivan star as Kerry cruise to 24-point Munster minor final win". Irish Examiner . 2 July 2017. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
7. "Clinical Kerry's early scoring burst leaves Rebels reeling". Irish Examiner . 3 July 2014. Retrieved 3 July 2014.
8. "Munster JFC final: Kingdom down Rebels to retain title". Hogan Stand . 1 July 2015. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
9. "Munster JFC final: Kingdom retain title with dramatic win over Cork". Hogan Stand . 27 June 2017. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
10. The Kerryman, 19 June 1926, p.5
11. The Kerryman, 23 November 1907
12. The Ulster Herald, 5 July 1913
13. "GAA | Latest Gaelic Games News, Results & Fixtures | RTÉ Sport". RTÉ.ie . 24 October 2014.
14. "GAA". Archived from the original on 6 March 2012. Retrieved 18 July 2012. GAA website
15. Corry, Eoghan (2005). The GAA Book of Lists. Hodder Headline Ireland. p. 238.
16. "Nolan inspires Kingdom to Ring Cup final win over Derry". GAA.ie. 6 June 2015. Archived from the original on 2 July 2015. Retrieved 16 June 2015.

External links

• Vintage Kerry GAA Jerseys from Retro GAA
• Kerry on Hoganstand.com
• National and provincial titles won by Kerry teams
• Club championship winners
• Kerry GAA site
• Causeway GAA site Hurling club from North Kerry