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1980 All Ireland Senior Football Championship

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Teams
  
33

Captain
  
Ger Power

Losing team
  
Roscommon

Winning team
  
Kerry (26th win)

Manager
  
Mick O'Dwyer

Dates
  
11 May 1980 – 21 September 1980

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.

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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. 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.

Munster Championship format change

Following a number of one-sided results in the Munster Championship in the late 1970s, the Munster Council changed the format in 1980. Kerry, long regarded as the standard bearers in the province, were given a bye to the Munster final. Cork, who had been second to Kerry since 1975, were given a bye to a lone semi-final. The other four "weaker" teams (Clare, Limerick, Tipperary and Waterford) were paired against each other in two preliminary round games. The winners of these two games faced each other in a lone quarter-final with the winners of that game qualifying to meet Cork in the lone semi-final. This format lasted only one season.

Connacht Senior Football Championship

Quarter-finals

Semi-final

Final

Leinster Senior Football Championship

First round

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Munster Senior Football Championship

Preliminary round

Quarter-final

Semi-final

Final

Ulster Senior Football Championship

Preliminary round

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

Semi-finals

Final

Top scorers

Overall
Single game

Miscellaneous

  • At the Munster final between Cork and Kerry at Páirc Uí Chaoimh, Cork Secretary of the Cork County Board Frank Murphy delivered an oration in honour of Tom Barry, a guerrilla leader during the War of Independence. Barry had died in the week leading up to the game.
  • Roscommon win the Connacht title for the 4th year in a row being the only time its happened not to be Galway/Mayo.

    • References

    1980 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Wikipedia
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