The 1977 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the ninetieth All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1977 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in

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. The game was contested by Armagh and

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. Dublin retained the

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. This was Armagh's second ever All-Ireland final. Their previous appearance was in 1953. Dublin had appeared in the previous three finals, winning two of those ( 1974 and

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). Jimmy Smyth captained Armagh.

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scored 2–6, which was the amount Dublin won by. This final's eight goals is joint most scored in a final, a record shared with the 1948 match.

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scored two of Armagh's goals. An early goal by Keaveney and Dublin led by 3-6 to 1-3 at half-time and by 4–8 to 1–3 at one point in the second half before the two Kernan goals; in 2022,

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listed it among "five of the worst" All-Ireland SFC finals since 1972. Armagh would not return to an All-Ireland football decider until 2002.

References

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