1997 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final

Football match

1997 All-Ireland Senior Football Final

Event

1997 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

Kerry	Mayo

0-13 (13)	1-7 (10)

Date

28 September 1997

Venue

Croke Park, Dublin

Referee

Brian White (Wexford)

Attendance

65,601

← 1996

1998 →

The 1997 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the 110th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1997 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.

Kerry bridged an 11-year gap, the longest in their history, helped by nine Maurice Fitzgerald points.^[1] Fitzgerald also broke Billy O'Shea's leg on the pitch.^[2]

Mayo in their second Final appearance in a row, were hoping to bridge a gap that stretched back to their All-Ireland football title winning team of 1951.^[3] They failed, and would lose again to Kerry in 2004 and 2006. Subsequent All-Ireland finals defeats followed for Mayo at the hands of Donegal in 2012 and Dublin in 2013, 2016, 2017, 2020 and Tyrone in 2021.

Match details

Kerry

Mayo

References

^ High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
^ Whyte, Barry J. (15 September 2006). "Kerry v Mayo Classics: 1997 SFC final". RTÉ Sport. Raidió Teilifís Éireann. Archived from the original on 26 July 2014. Retrieved 15 September 2006.
^ McGee, Eugene (6 February 2006). "First signs that Mayo might be set to turn back the clock". Irish Independent. Independent News & Media. Retrieved 6 February 2006.

External links

Liam Hassett's 1997 All-Ireland winning speech

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