The 1970 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the 83rd All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1970 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.
Match
Summary
Kerry won convincingly, with late goals by Din Joe Crowley and Mick Gleeson.
It was the first of four All-Ireland SFC titles won by Kerry in the 1970s.
Details
Kerry
- 1 J. Culloty
- 2 S. Murphy
- 3 P. O'Donoghue
- 4 D. O'Sullivan (c)
- 5 T. Prendergast
- 6 J. O'Keeffe
- 7 M. Ó Sé
- 8 M. O'Connell
- 9 D. J. Crowley
- 10 B. Lynch
- 11 P. Griffin
- 12 É. O'Donoghue
- 13 M. Gleeson
- 14 L. Higgins
- 15 M. O'Dwyer
- Sub used
- 16 S. Mac Gearailt
- Subs not used
- 17 D. Crowley
- 18 P. J. Burns
- 19 T. O'Donnell
- 20 P. Finnegan
- Seán O'Shea was retrospectively awarded a medal in 2025; in 1970 not all nonplaying subs were entitled to a medal. O'Shea's application relied on the precedent of Mick Loftus, retrospectively awarded a medal as a nonplaying sub in the 1951 final.
- Trainer
- J. Lyne
Meath
- 1 S. McCormack
- 2 M. White
- 3 J. Quinn (c)
- 4 B. Cunningham
- 5 O. Shanley
- 6 T. Kearns
- 7 P. Reynolds
- 8 V. Foley
- 9 V. Lynch
- 10 T. Brennan
- 11 M. Kerrigan
- 12 M. Mellett
- 13 K. Rennicks
- 14 J. Murphy
- 15 M. Fay
- Subs used
- 19 P. Moore for M. Mellett
- 22 B. Bligh for T. Kearns
- Subs not used
- 16 E. McMahon
- 17 P. Black
- 18 F. Ward
- 20 C. Bowens
- 21 J. Fay
- 23 M. Costello
- 24 A. Burns
- 25 D. Gogarty
- 26 T. Brannigan
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