Kerry–Tyrone Gaelic football rivalry

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Kerry-Tyrone
Location County Kerry
County Tyrone
Teams Kerry
Tyrone
First meetingKerry 2-15 - 1-10 Tyrone
1986 All-Ireland final
(21 September 1986)
Latest meetingKerry 2-18 - 0-12 Tyrone
2023 All-Ireland quarter-final
(1 July 2023)
Statistics
Meetings total9
All-time seriesTyrone 4-5 Kerry
Largest victoryKerry 2-18 - 0-12 Tyrone
2023 All Ireland Quarter Final
(1 July 2023)

The Kerry-Tyrone rivalry is a Gaelic football rivalry between Irish county teams Kerry and Tyrone, who first played each other in 1986. It is considered to be one of the biggest rivalries in modern Gaelic games. [1] Kerry's home ground is Fitzgerald Stadium and Tyrone's home ground is Healy Park, however, all but one of their championship meetings have been held at neutral venues, usually Croke Park.

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While Kerry have the highest number of Munster titles and Tyrone are third on the roll of honour in Ulster, they have also enjoyed success in the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, having won 40 championship titles between them to date.

All-time results

Legend

Kerry win
Tyrone win
Match was a draw

Senior

No.DateWinnersScoreRunners-upVenueStage
1.21 September 1986Kerry2-15 - 1-10Tyrone Croke Park All Ireland final
2.24 August 2003Tyrone0-13 - 0-6Kerry Croke Park All Ireland semi-final
3.25 September 2005Tyrone1-16 - 2-10Kerry Croke Park All Ireland final
4.21 September 2008Tyrone1-15 - 0-14Kerry Croke Park All Ireland final
5.21 July 2012Kerry1-16 - 1-6Tyrone Fitzgerald Stadium All Ireland qualifier round 3
6.23 August 2015Kerry0-18 - 1-11Tyrone Croke Park All Ireland semi-final
7.11 August 2019Kerry1-18 - 0-18Tyrone Croke Park All Ireland semi-final
8.28 August 2021Tyrone3-14 - 0-22Kerry Croke Park All Ireland semi-final
7.1 July 2023Kerry2-18 - 0-12Tyrone Croke Park All Quarter-final

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References

  1. McMahon, James (23 August 2015). "Kerry v Tyrone: A football rivalry". RTÉ Sport. Retrieved 21 March 2016.