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All-Ireland Senior Football Championship 1979

1979 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Championship details
Dates 13 May 1979 - 16 September 1979
Teams 33
All-Ireland Champions
Winning team Kerry (25th win)
Captain Tim Kennelly
Manager Mick O'Dwyer
All-Ireland Finalists
Losing team Dublin
Captain Tony Hanahoe
Manager Kevin Heffernan
Provincial Champions
Munster Kerry
Leinster Dublin
Ulster Monaghan
Connacht Roscommon
Championship statistics
No. matches played 35
Top Scorer Colours of Leitrim.svg Mikey Sheehy (6-18)
Player of the Year Colours of Leitrim.svg Mikey Sheehy
1978
1980

The 1979 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 93rd staging of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county Gaelic football tournament. The championship began on 13 May 1979 and ended on 16 September 1979.

Kerry entered the championship as the defending champions.

On 16 September 1979, Kerry won the championship following a 3-13 to 1-8 defeat of Dublin in the All-Ireland final. This was their 25th All-Ireland title and their second in succession.

Kerry's Mikey Sheehy was the championship's top scorer with 6-18. He was also named as the Texaco Footballer of the Year.

The second round of the Leinster football championship is dropped this year after 1 year.

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Semi-finals



Final


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Final


Quarter-finals



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Final


Preliminary round


Quarter-finals





Semi-finals



Final


Semi-finals



Final



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