1980 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

1980 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Championship details
Dates11 May – 21 September 1980
Teams33
All-Ireland Champions
Winning teamKerry (26th win)
CaptainGer Power
ManagerMick O'Dwyer
All-Ireland Finalists
Losing teamRoscommon
CaptainDanny Murray
ManagerTom Heneghan
Provincial Champions
MunsterKerry
LeinsterOffaly
UlsterArmagh
ConnachtRoscommon
Championship statistics
No. matches played33
Top Scorer Matt Connor (5-31)
Player of the Year Jack O'Shea
1979
1981

The 1980 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 94th staging of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county Gaelic football tournament. The championship began on 11 May 1980 and ended on 21 September 1980.

Kerry entered the championship as the defending champions.

On 21 September 1980, Kerry won the championship following a 1-9 to 1-6 defeat of Roscommon in the All-Ireland final.[1] This was their 26th All-Ireland title and their third in succession.

Offaly's Matt Connor was the championship's top scorer with 5-31. Kerry's Jack O'Shea was named as the Texaco Footballer of the Year.

  1. ^ "Rossies lead way in '80s team". Irish Independent. 10 September 2013. Retrieved 24 October 2016.