1975 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

1975 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Championship details
Dates11 May – 28 September 1975
Teams33
All-Ireland Champions
Winning teamKerry (23 win)
CaptainMickey "Ned" O'Sullivan
ManagerMick O'Dwyer
All-Ireland Finalists
Losing teamDublin
CaptainSeán Doherty
ManagerKevin Heffernan
Provincial Champions
MunsterKerry
LeinsterDublin
UlsterDerry
ConnachtSligo
Championship statistics
No. matches played35
Goals total101 (2.8 per game)
Points total762 (21. 7 per game)
Top Scorer Jimmy Keaveney (1-38)
Player of the Year John O'Keeffe
1974
1976

The 1975 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 89th staging of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county Gaelic football tournament. The championship began on 25 May 1975 and ended on 28 September 1975.

Dublin were the defending champions. London fielded a team in the senior championship for the first time.

On 28 September 1975, Kerry won the championship following a 2-12 to 0-11 defeat of Dublin in the All-Ireland final.[1] This was their 23rd All-Ireland title, their first in five championship seasons.

Dublin's Jimmy Keaveney was the championship's top scorer with 1-38. Kerry's John O'Keeffe was the choice for Texaco Footballer of the Year.

  1. ^ Breheny, Martin (18 September 2014). "Kerry's power surge strongest since 1975 - O'Dwyer". Irish Independent. Retrieved 24 October 2015.