1985 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final

June 2018 June 2018 1985 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final 1985 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final programme.png 1985 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Kerry 40px 2–12(18) Dublin 40px 2–8(14) 22 September 1985 Croke Park Dublin Paddy Kavanagh (Meath) 69,389 1984 1986 The 1985 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the 98th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1985 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland. The final was contested by Dublin and Kerry. This was one of six All-Ireland SFC finals contested by both Dublin and Kerry between 1974 and 1986, a period when one of either team always contested the decider.https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/marching-on-together-dublin-and-kerry-legends-will-reunite-to-remember-the-good-times-and-their-absent-friends/a766188048.html Marching on together Sunday Independent Dermot Crowe 30 March 2025 From 1974 to 1986, every final had Kerry or Dublin in it and in six of those they were the final pairing. They shared every All-Ireland going in that time save for Offaly's famous heist of 1982. The teams would not meet in an All-Ireland SFC final again until 2011. Pre-match On the morning of the game, Kerry manager Mick O'Dwyer and his players featured in an advertisement for Bendix washing machines, with the line "Only Bendix could whitewash this lot".https://www.rte.ie/sport/football/2020/0723/1155168-comment-dean-caught-between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place/ Dean caught between a Rock and a hard place over training sessions RTÉ 23 July 2020 Match This year's final was played on 22 September.https://www.gaa.ie/api/pdfs/image/upload/t8bphnbixyanijooj1un.pdfbook The Complete Handbook of GAELIC GAMES 2021 DBA 153July 2026 InternetArchiveBot Summary Kerry led by nine points at half-time, and two Joe McNally goals in the second half was not enough to stop them.High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998. Jack O'Shea picked the ball up with wonderful skill in front of referee Paddy Kavanagh, who proceeded to marvel at the Kerryman's abilities.Seán Potts Blue Wave begins Decades of the Dubs: 2010–2014 The Herald 3 ...Jack O'Shea picking the ball clean off the ground in front of the ref (Kavanagh, Meath) in the 1985 final). It was the fourth of five All-Ireland SFC titles won by Kerry in the 1980s.https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/kerry-on-honour-roll-26565988.html Kerry on honour roll Irish Independent Independent News & Media 14 September 2009 14 September 2009 Details 22 September 1985 Final Kerry football 2–12 – 2–8 Dublin football J O'Shea 1–3, T O'Dowd 1–1, M Sheehy 0–3, T Doyle 0–1, J Kennedy 0–1, P Spillane 0–2 D Moran 0–1 J McNally 2–0, B Rock 0–3, T Conroy 0–2, J Kearns 0–2, T Carr 0–1 Croke Park, Dublin 69,289 P Kavanagh (Meath) _whiteborder _goldhorizontal _whiteborder _green_stripes_adidas _hoops_gold 009900 009900 009900 ffffff 009900 Kerry _shoulder_stripes_white_stripes _darkblueneck _shoulder_stripes_white_stripes _skytop 8FB8EE 8FB8EE 8FB8EE 101a56 101a56 Dublin Kerry 1 C. Nelligan 2 P. Ó Sé (c) 3 S. Walsh 4 M. Spillane 5 T. Doyle 6 T. Spillane 7 G. Lynch 8 J. O'Shea 9 A. O'Donovan 10 T. O'Dowd 11 D. Moran 12 P. Spillane 13 M. Sheehy 14 E. Liston 15 G. Power Sub used 17 J. Kennedy for G. Power Subs not used 16 J. Higgins 18 G. O'Sullivan 19 J. Mulvihill 20 S. Liston 21 D. Hanafin 22 D. O'Donoghue 23 J. Keane 24 L. Kearns Manager M. O'Dwyer Dublin 1 J. O'Leary 2 M. Kennedy 3 G. Hargan 4 R. Hazley 5 P. Canavan 6 N. McCaffrey 7 D. Synnott 8 J. Ronayne 9 B. Mullins (c) 10 B. Rock 11 T. Conroy 12 C. Redmond 13 J. Kearns 14 J. McNally 15 K. Duff Subs used 20 T. Carr for C. Redmond 17 P. J. Buckley for B. Mullins Manager K. Heffernan References All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, 1985 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Finals Category:All-Ireland Senior Football Championship finals Category:GAA finals at Croke Park Category:Dublin county football team matches Category:Kerry county football team matches