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1980 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final

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Field	Value
title	1980 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final
event	1980 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
team1	Kerry
team1association	[[File:Colours of Kerry.svg	40px]]
team1score	1–9
(12)
team2	Roscommon
team2association	[[File:Colours of Roscommon.svg	40px]]
team2score	1–6
(9)
date	21 September 1980
stadium	Croke Park
city	Dublin
referee	Seamus Murray (Monaghan)
attendance	63,854
previous	1979
next	1981

(12) (9) The 1980 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the 93rd All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1980 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.

Pre-match

Roscommon had beaten Armagh in their semi-final.

Match

Summary

Roscommon went five points up early on, John 'Jigger' O'Connor getting a goal after 35 seconds. Mikey Sheehy pegged a goal back and in a very scrappy game, (64 frees) the more experienced Kerry team ran out three-point victors.

Towards the end of the first half, Kerry player Pat Spillane lay down injured and referee Seamus Murray tried to raise him from the ground. Commentator Michael O'Hehir also doubted the authenticity of Spillane's injury, in remarks that angered the Kerry County Board.

Kerry completed a three-in-a-row sequence of titles; Tom Cryan wrote in the Irish Independent: "The first half has to be one of the worst ever seen in an All-Ireland final", Donal Carroll wrote in the same publication: "The statistics are chillingly disturbing in the awarding of 64 frees — 41 to Kerry — and six bookings, three to each side – made an utter shambles of what should have been an interesting trial of strength"; in 2022, Martin Breheny listed it among "five of the worst" All-Ireland SFC finals since 1972.

This was the first of five All-Ireland SFC titles won by Kerry in the 1980s.

Details

Kerry =

1 C. Nelligan
2 J. Deenihan
3 J. O'Keeffe
4 P. Lynch
5 P. Ó Sé
6 T. Kennelly
17 G. O'Keeffe
8 J. O'Shea
9 S. Walsh
10 G. Power (c)
7 D. Moran
12 P. Spillane
13 M. Sheehy
11 T. Doyle
15 J. Egan

;Sub used : 19 G. O'Driscoll for G. Power

;Subs not used : 14 E. Liston : 16 M. Spillane : 18 D. O'Donoghue : 20 J. Walsh : 21 P. O'Mahony

;Manager : M. O'Dwyer

Roscommon =

1 G. Sheerin
2 H. Keegan
3 P. Lindsay
4 G. Connellan
5 G. Fitzmaurice
6 T. Donnellan
7 D. Murray (c)
8 D. Earley
9 S. Hayden
10 J. O'Connor
11 J. O'Gara
12 A. Dooley
13 M. Finneran
14 T. McManus
15 É. McManus

;Subs used : M. Dolphin for A. Dooley : M. McDermott for S. Hayden

; Manager : T. Heneghan

References

(11 November 2010). "O Hehir criticised for Spillane comments". [[The Kerryman]].
Crowe, Dermot. (30 March 2025). "Marching on together". [[Sunday Independent (Ireland).
Breheny, Martin. (24 June 2010). "Death of Dermot Earley". Irish Independent.
''High Ball'' magazine, issue #6, 1998.
Breheny, Martin. (9 August 2022). "Five of the worst All-Ireland football finals since 1972". Irish Independent.
(14 September 2009). "Kerry on honour roll". Irish Independent.

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