List of All-Ireland Senior Football Championship winning managers

This is a list of All-Ireland Senior Football Championship winning managers since 1986. The term manager (or coach) only came into widespread use in the 1970s. Up until then football teams were usually run by selection panels. Sometimes they contained up to ten members, resulting in self-interest coming to the fore more often than not. All this changed with the appointment of a strong manager, surrounded by a small group of selectors.

By year

Mick O'Dwyer holds the record for most titles won as manager (8). The last title dates from 1986.

Jack O'Connor won five titles in three different spells as Kerry manager.

Mickey Harte won three titles as Tyrone manager in the 2000s.

Billy Morgan won consecutive titles as Cork manager in 1989 and 1990.

Year	Winning coach(es)	Team	Score	Opponent	Losing coach(es)	Sources
1981	Mick O'Dwyer (5)	Kerry	1-12 : 0-8	Offaly	Eugene McGee	[1]
1982	Eugene McGee	Offaly	1-15 : 0-17	Kerry	Mick O'Dwyer	[2]
1983	Kevin Heffernan (3)	Dublin	1-10 : 1-8	Galway	Mattie McDonagh	[3]
1984	Mick O'Dwyer (6)	Kerry	0-14 : 1-6	Dublin	Kevin Heffernan	[3]
1985	Mick O'Dwyer (7)	Kerry	2-12 : 2-8	Dublin	Kevin Heffernan	[2][3]
1986	Mick O'Dwyer (8)	Kerry	2-15 : 1-10	Tyrone	Art McRory	[2]
1987	Seán Boylan	Meath	1-14 : 0-11	Cork	Billy Morgan	[4]
1988	Seán Boylan (2)	Meath	0-13 : 0-12	Cork	Billy Morgan	[4]
1989	Billy Morgan	Cork	0-17 : 1-11	Mayo	John O'Mahony	[5][4]
1990	Billy Morgan (2)	Cork	0-11 : 0-09	Meath	Seán Boylan	[6]
1991	Pete McGrath	Down	1-16 : 1-14	Meath	Seán Boylan	[7]
1992	Brian McEniff	Donegal	0-18 : 0-14	Dublin	Pat O'Neill	[3]
1993	Eamonn Coleman	Derry	1-14 : 2-08	Cork	Billy Morgan	[6]
1994	Pete McGrath (2)	Down	1-12 : 0-13	Dublin	Pat O'Neill	[7][3]
1995	Pat O'Neill	Dublin	1-10 : 0-12	Tyrone	Art McRory, Eugene McKenna	[3]
1996	Seán Boylan (3)	Meath	2-09 : 1-11	Mayo	John Maughan	[8]
1997	Páidí Ó Sé	Kerry	0-13 : 1-07	Mayo	John Maughan	[9]
1998	John O'Mahony	Galway	1-14 : 1-10	Kildare	Mick O'Dwyer	[10][11]
1999	Seán Boylan (4)	Meath	1-11 : 1-08	Cork	Larry Tompkins	[6]
2000	Páidí Ó Sé (2)	Kerry	0-17 : 1-10	Galway	John O'Mahony	[9]
2001	John O'Mahony (2)	Galway	0-17 : 0-08	Meath	Seán Boylan	[10]
2002	Joe Kernan	Armagh	1-12 : 0-14	Kerry	Páidí Ó Sé	[12]
2003	Mickey Harte	Tyrone	0-12 : 0-09	Armagh	Joe Kernan	[8]
2004	Jack O'Connor	Kerry	1-20 : 2-09	Mayo	John Maughan	[13]
2005	Mickey Harte (2)	Tyrone	1-16 : 2-10	Kerry	Jack O'Connor	[8][14]
2006	Jack O'Connor (2)	Kerry	4-15 : 3-05	Mayo	Mickey Moran	[13]
2007	Pat O'Shea	Kerry	3-13 : 1-09	Cork	Billy Morgan
2008	Mickey Harte (3)	Tyrone	1-15 : 0-14	Kerry	Pat O'Shea	[8]
2009	Jack O'Connor (3)	Kerry	0-16 : 1-09	Cork	Conor Counihan	[13]
2010	Conor Counihan	Cork	0-16 : 0-15	Down	James McCartan Jnr
2011	Pat Gilroy	Dublin	1-12 : 1-11	Kerry	Jack O'Connor
2012	Jim McGuinness	Donegal	2-11 : 0-13	Mayo	James Horan
2013	Jim Gavin	Dublin	2-12 : 1-14	Mayo	James Horan	[15]
2014	Éamonn Fitzmaurice	Kerry	2-09 : 0-12	Donegal	Jim McGuinness
2015	Jim Gavin (2)	Dublin	0-12 : 0-9	Kerry	Éamonn Fitzmaurice	[15]
2016	Jim Gavin (3)	Dublin	1-15 : 1-14	Mayo	Stephen Rochford	[15]
2017	Jim Gavin (4)	Dublin	1-17 : 1-16	Mayo	Stephen Rochford	[15]
2018	Jim Gavin (5)	Dublin	2-17 : 1-14	Tyrone	Mickey Harte	[15]
2019	Jim Gavin (6)	Dublin	1-18 : 0-15	Kerry	Peter Keane	[15]
2020	Dessie Farrell	Dublin	2-14 : 0-15	Mayo	James Horan	[16]
2021	Feargal Logan & Brian Dooher	Tyrone	2-14 : 0-15	Mayo	James Horan	[17]
2022	Jack O'Connor (4)	Kerry	0-20 : 0-16	Galway	Pádraic Joyce	[18]

See also

• List of All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship winning managers