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1979 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

Football championship

Field	Value
year	1979
dates	13 May – 16 September 1979
teams	33
connacht	Roscommon
munster	Kerry
leinster	Dublin
ulster	Monaghan
matches	35
poty	[[File: Colours of Kerry.svg	border	20px]] Mikey Sheehy
team	Kerry
titles	25th
captain	Tim Kennelly
manager	Mick O'Dwyer
team2	Dublin
captain2	Tony Hanahoe
manager2	Kevin Heffernan
topscorer	[[File: Colours of Kerry.svg	border	20px]] Mikey Sheehy (6–18)
previous	1978
next	1980

The 1979 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 93rd staging of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county Gaelic football tournament. The championship began on 13 May 1979 and ended on 16 September 1979.

Kerry entered the championship as the defending champions.

On 16 September 1979, Kerry won the championship following a 3–13 to 1–8 defeat of Dublin in the All-Ireland final. This was their 25th All-Ireland title and their second in succession.

Kerry's Mikey Sheehy was the championship's top scorer with 6–18. He was also named as the Texaco Footballer of the Year.

Leinster Championship format change

Championship statistics

Top scorers

;Overall

Rank	Player	County	Tally	Total	Matches	Average
1	Mikey Sheehy	Kerry	6–18	36	4	9.00
2	Kieran Finlay	Monaghan	1–21	24	4	6.00
3	Pat Spillane	Kerry	3–13	22	4	5.50
4	Joe McGrath	Mayo	5–6	21	2	10.50
Ger Power	Kerry	5–6	21	3	7.00

;Single game

Rank	Player	County	Tally	Total	Opposition
1	Mikey Sheehy	Kerry	3–5	14	Monaghan
2	Bernard Cullen	Meath	4–0	12	Kilkenny
Pat Spillane	Kerry	3–3	12	Clare
Mikey Sheehy	Kerry	2–6	12	Dublin
Kieran Finlay	Monaghan	1–9	12	Donegal
6	Joe McGrath	Mayo	2–5	11	Roscommon
M. Magee	Wexford	2–5	11	Carlow
8	Eamon Creighton	London	3–1	10	Galway
Joe McGrath	Mayo	3–1	10	Leitrim
Eamon Barry	Meath	2–4	10	Kilkenny
Ger Power	Kerry	2–4	10	Cork
Mick Ryan	Meath	1–7	10	Kildare
Gay McManus	Galway	0–10	10	London
Seán Lowry	Offaly	0–10	10	Meath

Miscellaneous

The Munster semi-final between and had the highest score in the history of the Munster championship 9–21 to 1–9.
Monaghan's 1–15 to 0–11 defeat of Donegal in the Ulster final gave them their first provincial title since 1938.
Roscommon in the Connacht final for the third year in a row only time a team not Galway/Mayo and ever done so.
As Dublin win their sixth Leinster title in a row they follow Wexford (1913–1918) and Kildare (1926–1931) who previously done so.

References

(18 September 2015). "In numbers: Dublin v Kerry". RTÉ Sport.

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