1977 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final
| Event | 1977 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship | ||||||
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| Date | 25 September 1977 | ||||||
| Venue | Croke Park, Dublin | ||||||
| Referee | John Moloney (Tipperary) | ||||||
| Attendance | 66,542 | ||||||
The 1977 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the ninetieth All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1977 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.[1]
The game was contested by Armagh and Dublin. Dublin retained the Sam Maguire Cup.
Pre-match
[edit | edit source]This was Armagh's second ever All-Ireland SFC final. Their previous appearance was in 1953. Dublin had appeared in the previous three finals, winning two of those (1974 and 1976).
Match
[edit | edit source]Summary
[edit | edit source]Jimmy Keaveney scored 2–6, which was the amount Dublin won by. This final's eight goals is joint most scored in a final, a record shared with the 1948 match.[2]
Joe Kernan scored two of Armagh's goals.[3] Jimmy Smyth captained Armagh.[4]
An early goal by Keaveney and Dublin led by 3–6 to 1–3 at half-time and by 4–8 to 1–3 at one point in the second half before the two Kernan goals; in 2022, Martin Breheny listed it among "five of the worst" All-Ireland SFC finals since 1972.[5]
Armagh would not return to an All-Ireland football decider until 2002.
Details
[edit | edit source]Dublin
[edit | edit source]- 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 not used
- 19 P. Gogarty
- 20 B. Pocock
- 21 F. Ryder
- 22 N. Bernard
- 23 M. Hickey
- 24 L. Egan
- 25 D. Maher
- Manager
- T. Hanahoe
Armagh
[edit | edit source]- 1 B. McAlinden
- 2 D. Stevenson
- 3 T. McCreesh
- 4 J. McKerr
- 5 K. Rafferty
- 6 P. Moriarty
- 7 J. Donnelly
- 8 J. Kernan
- 9 C. McKinstry
- 10 L. Kearns
- 11 J. Smyth (c)
- 12 N. Marley
- 13 S. Devlin
- 14 P. Trainor
- 15 P. Loughran
- Subs used
- J. Loughran for J. Donnelly
- S. Daly for N. Marley
- F. Toman for J. McKerr
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).