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.
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.
Match
This year's final was played on 26 September.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. It was Dublin's first championship win over Kerry since 1934.Dublin manager Kevin Heffernan declared: "I've waited 21 years for this".
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.
Details
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
- 12 D. Hickey
- 13 B. Doyle
- 14 J. Keaveney
- 15 J. McCarthy
;Subs not used
;Manager
Kerry
- 1 P. O'Mahony
- 2 G. O'Keeffe
- 3 J. O'Keeffe
- 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 not used
;Manager