1976 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final

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.

1976 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final

Event	1976 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Dublin Kerry 3–8 (17) 0–10 (10)
Date	26 September 1976
Venue	Croke Park, Dublin
Referee	Paddy Collins (Westmeath)
Attendance	73,588
← 1975 1977 →

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 0–1		M Sheehy 0–3, P Spillane 0–2, D Moran 0–2, M O'Sullivan 0–1, B Lynch 0–1, J Egan 0–1

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Dublin

Kerry

Dublin

• 1 P. Cullen
• 2 G. O'Driscoll
• 3 S. Doherty
• 4 R. Kelleher
• 5 T. Drumm
• 6 K. Moran
• 7 P. O'Neill
• 8 B. Mullins
• 9 B. Brogan
• 10 A. O'Toole
• 11 T. Hanahoe (c)
• 12 D. Hickey
• 13 B. Doyle
• 14 J. Keaveney
• 15 J. McCarthy

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

• 1 P. O'Mahony
• 2 G. O'Keeffe
• 3 J. O'Keeffe (c)
• 4 J. Deenihan
• 5 P. Ó Sé
• 6 T. Kennelly
• 7 G. Power
• 8 P. Lynch
• 9 P. McCarthy
• 10 D. Moran
• 11 M. Sheehy
• 12 M. O'Sullivan
• 13 B. Lynch
• 14 J. Egan
• 15 P. Spillane

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