1980 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship


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. 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 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 was previously used in 1941 and lasted only one season.

Results

[Connacht [Senior Football Championship]]

Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
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

Championship statistics

Top scorers

;Overall
RankPlayerCountyTallyTotalMatchesAverage
1Matt ConnorOffaly5-3146411.50
2Michael FinneranRoscommon5-203557.00
3Tony McManusRoscommon6-82655.20

;Single game
RankPlayerCountyTallyTotalOpposition
1Matt ConnorOffaly2-915Kerry
2Matt ConnorOffaly2-814Kildare
3Michael FinneranRoscommon3-312London
3Tony McManusRoscommon3-312London
5Willie CullenCarlow2-511Kildare
5Michael FinneranRoscommon1-811Armagh
7Jim McDonnellLouth2-410Wexford
7Dinny AllenCork2-410Limerick
7Matt ConnorOffaly1-710Dublin
10Tom ShawKildare1-69Wicklow
10Tim DaltonCork1-69Limerick
10Mikey SheehyKerry1-69Roscommon

Miscellaneous