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1977 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final

Field	Value
title	1977 All-Ireland Football Championship final
event	[1977 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship](1977-all-ireland-senior-football-championship)
team1	Dublin
team1association	[[File:Colours of Dublin.svg	40px]]
team1score	5–12
(27)
team2	Armagh
team2association	[[File:Colours of Armagh.svg	40px]]
team2score	3–6
(15)
date	25 September 1977
stadium	Croke Park
city	Dublin
referee	John Moloney (Tipperary)
attendance	66,542
previous	[1976](1976-all-ireland-senior-football-championship-final)
next	[1978](1978-all-ireland-senior-football-championship-final)

(27) (15) The 1977 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the ninetieth All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1977 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.

This was one of the 13 consecutive All-Ireland SFC finals contested by either Dublin or Kerry between 1974 and 1986, a period when one of either team always contested the decider.

The game was contested by Armagh and Dublin. Dublin retained the Sam Maguire Cup.

Pre-match

This was Armagh's second ever All-Ireland SFC final. Their previous appearance was in 1953. Dublin had appeared in the previous three finals, winning two of those (1974 and 1976).

Match

This year's final was played on 27 September.

Summary

Jimmy Keaveney scored 2–6, which was the amount Dublin won by. This final's eight goals is joint most scored in a final, a record shared with the 1948 match.

Joe Kernan scored two of Armagh's goals. Jimmy Smyth captained Armagh.

An early goal by Keaveney and Dublin led by 3–6 to 1–3 at half-time and by 4–8 to 1–3 at one point in the second half before the two Kernan goals; in 2022, Martin Breheny listed it among "five of the worst" All-Ireland SFC finals since 1972.

Armagh would not return to an All-Ireland football decider until 2002.

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 (c)
12 D. Hickey
13 B. Doyle
14 J. Keaveney
15 J. McCarthy

;Subs used : 17 P. Reilly for P. O'Neill : 16 A. Larkin for B. Brogan : 18 J. Brogan for R. Kelleher

;Subs not used : 19 P. Gogarty : 20 B. Pocock : 21 F. Ryder : 22 N. Bernard : 23 M. Hickey : 24 L. Egan : 25 D. Maher

;Manager : T. Hanahoe

Armagh

1 B. McAlinden
2 D. Stevenson
3 T. McCreesh
4 J. McKerr
5 K. Rafferty
6 P. Moriarty
7 J. Donnelly
8 J. Kernan
9 C. McKinstry
10 L. Kearns
11 J. Smyth (c)
12 N. Marley
13 S. Devlin
14 P. Trainor
15 P. Loughran

;Subs used : J. Loughran for J. Donnelly : S. Daly for N. Marley : F. Toman for J. McKerr

References

Crowe, Dermot. (30 March 2025). "Marching on together". [[Sunday Independent (Ireland).
(2021). "The Complete Handbook of GAELIC GAMES". DBA.
''High Ball'' magazine, issue #6, 1998.
(22 September 2002). "Armagh are champions". BBC.
Watters, Andy. (16 September 2020). "Neighbours St Paul's and Clan na Gael do battle for bragging rights and silverware in all-Lurgan Armagh championship final". [[The Irish News]].
Breheny, Martin. (9 August 2022). "Five of the worst All-Ireland football finals since 1972". Irish Independent.

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