1976 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final
Football match
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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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| Event | 1976 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship | ||||||
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| Date | 26 September 1976 | ||||||
| Venue | Croke Park, Dublin | ||||||
| Referee | Paddy Collins (Westmeath) | ||||||
| Attendance | 73,588 | ||||||
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
This year's final was played on 26 September.[2]
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.[3] It was Dublin's first championship win over Kerry since 1934.[4][5]
Dublin manager Kevin Heffernan declared: "I've waited 21 years for this".[4]
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.[4]
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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    Kerry
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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