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.High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998. 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 (c) 12 D. Hickey 13 B. Doyle 14 J. Keaveney 15 J. McCarthy
Subs used 19 F. Ryder for T. Hanahoe 20 P. Gogarty for B. Doyle
Subs not used 16 J. Brogan 17 P. O'Reilly 18 P. Pocock 21 L. Deegan
Manager K. Heffernan
Kerry 1 P. O'Mahony 2 G. O'Keeffe 3 J. O'Keeffe (c) 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 used 21 C. Nelligan for P. O'Mahony 16 S. Walsh for P. McCarthy 17 G. O'Driscoll for M. O'Sullivan
Subs not used 18 J. Long 19 A. O'Keeffe 20 J. Walsh 22 V. O'Connor 23 B. Walsh
Manager M. O'Dwyer
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