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1985 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final

Field	Value
title	1985 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final
image	1985 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final programme.png
event	[1985 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship](1985-all-ireland-senior-football-championship)
team1	Kerry
team1association	[[File:Colours of Kerry.svg	40px]]
team1score	2–12
(18)
team2	Dublin
team2association	[[File:Colours of Dublin.svg	40px]]
team2score	2–8
(14)
date	22 September 1985
stadium	Croke Park
city	Dublin
referee	Paddy Kavanagh (Meath)
attendance	69,389
previous	[1984](1984-all-ireland-senior-football-championship-final)
next	[1986](1986-all-ireland-senior-football-championship-final)

(18) (14) The 1985 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the 98th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1985 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.

The final was contested by Dublin and Kerry. 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. The teams would not meet in an All-Ireland SFC final again until 2011.

Pre-match

On the morning of the game, Kerry manager Mick O'Dwyer and his players featured in an advertisement for Bendix washing machines, with the line "Only Bendix could whitewash this lot".

Match

This year's final was played on 22 September.

Summary

Kerry led by nine points at half-time, and two Joe McNally goals in the second half was not enough to stop them.

Jack O'Shea picked the ball up with wonderful skill in front of referee Paddy Kavanagh, who proceeded to marvel at the Kerryman's abilities.

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

Details

Kerry

1 C. Nelligan
2 P. Ó Sé (c)
3 S. Walsh
4 M. Spillane
5 T. Doyle
6 T. Spillane
7 G. Lynch
8 J. O'Shea
9 A. O'Donovan
10 T. O'Dowd
11 D. Moran
12 P. Spillane
13 M. Sheehy
14 E. Liston
15 G. Power

;Sub used : 17 J. Kennedy for G. Power

;Subs not used : 16 J. Higgins : 18 G. O'Sullivan : 19 J. Mulvihill : 20 S. Liston : 21 D. Hanafin : 22 D. O'Donoghue : 23 J. Keane : 24 L. Kearns

;Manager : M. O'Dwyer

Dublin

1 J. O'Leary
2 M. Kennedy
3 G. Hargan
4 R. Hazley
5 P. Canavan
6 N. McCaffrey
7 D. Synnott
8 J. Ronayne
9 B. Mullins (c)
10 B. Rock
11 T. Conroy
12 C. Redmond
13 J. Kearns
14 J. McNally
15 K. Duff

;Subs used : 20 T. Carr for C. Redmond : 17 P. J. Buckley for B. Mullins

;Manager : K. Heffernan

References

Crowe, Dermot. (30 March 2025). "Marching on together". [[Sunday Independent (Ireland).
(23 July 2020). "Dean caught between a Rock and a hard place over training sessions". RTÉ.
(2021). "The Complete Handbook of GAELIC GAMES". DBA.
''High Ball'' magazine, issue #6, 1998.
Potts, Seán. "Blue Wave begins". [[The Herald (Ireland).
(14 September 2009). "Kerry on honour roll". [[Independent News & Media]].

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