1976 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final | |
Event: | 1976 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship |
Team1score: | 3–8 (17) |
Team2score: | 0–10 (10) |
Date: | 26 September 1976 |
Stadium: | Croke Park |
City: | Dublin |
Referee: | Paddy Collins (Westmeath) |
Attendance: | 73,588 |
Previous: | 1975 |
Next: | 1977 |
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.
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.[1] It was Dublin's first championship win over Kerry since 1934.[2]
Dublin manager Kevin Heffernan declared: "I've waited 21 years for this".[3]
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.[3]