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1979–80 National Football League (Ireland)

1979–80 National Football League
1979–80 National Football League (Ireland) final.jpg
League details
Dates October 1979 – 27 April 1980
League champions
Winners Cork (3rd win)
Captain Christy Ryan
Manager Billy Morgan
League runners-up
Runners-up Kerry
Captain Jimmy Deenihan
Manager Mick O'Dwyer

The 1979–80 National Football League was the 49th staging of the National Football League (NFL), an annual Gaelic football tournament for the Gaelic Athletic Association county teams of Ireland.

Cork defeated Kerry in an all-Munster final.

Teams in both divisions competed for the National Football League title.

There was also a separate National Football League Division Two title.

This was the last season of the present league format. For the 1980-81 season, the 32 counties were divided into four divisions of eight teams. The teams were not placed into the new structure entirely in line with their placings in the 1979-80 league.





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