Kerry are by far the most successful team in the history of Gaelic football. They have won 38 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship and have appeared in countless other All-Ireland Football Finals. Kerry footballers have been garlanded with countless awards and hold numerous individual records in the sport. Pat Spillane received nine All Stars during a glittering career, a feat matched by no other Gaelic footballer, while Tadhg Kennelly is the only holder of both an AFL Premiership medallion and a Senior All-Ireland Championship medal, the highest possible achievement in the sports of Australian rules football and Gaelic football. Here are Kerry's honours.
Gaelic football
All Irelands (92)
- All-Ireland Senior Football Championships: 38
- All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championships: 10
- 1964, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1990, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2008
- All-Ireland Minor Football Championships: 16
- All-Ireland Junior Football Championships: 20
- 1913, 1915, 1924, 1928, 1930, 1941, 1949, 1954, 1963, 1967, 1983, 1991, 1994, 2006, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
- All-Ireland Vocational Schools Championships: 9
- 1973, 1977, 1978, 1986, 1987, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1997
League Titles (23)
- National Football Leagues: 23
- 1928, 1929, 1931, 1932, 1959, 1961, 1963, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1977, 1982, 1984, 1997, 2004, 2006, 2009, 2017, 2020, 2021, 2022
- National Football Leagues Div 2: 1
- 2002
Regional
Provincials (216)
- Munster Senior Football Championships: 85
- 1892, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1919, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1944, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1991, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
- Munster Under-21/Under-20 Football Championships: 28 (Under 20 since 2018)
- 1962, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1983, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2008, 2017, 2018, 2020
- Munster Minor Football Championships: 49
- 1931, 1932, 1933, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1954, 1957, 1958, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1970, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006,2008, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
- Munster Junior Football Championships: 46
- 1913, 1914, 1915, 1924, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1930, 1931, 1934, 1936, 1938, 1941, 1946, 1947, 1949, 1954, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1963, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1983, 1985, 1991, 1994, 1995, 1997, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
- Munster Football League: 1
- 1926
- McGrath Cup: 6
- 1996, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2017, 2022
- Dr Croke Cup: 1
- 1906
- Croke Memorial Tournament: 1
- 1913
- Railway Cup Football: 2
- 1927 (all Kerry players), 1931 (all Kerry players)
(Note that the Railway Cup is contested by provincial sides - these are years in which the Munster team consisted entirely of Kerry players).
Individual
Players who won eight All-Ireland SFC medals (5)
GAA All Stars Awards (148)
Kerry has 159 All Stars, as of 2023. 64 different players have won, as of 2023. Pat Spillane won nine All Stars, Colm Cooper won eight and Mikey Sheehy won seven. denotes that a player also won Footballer of the Year for the year in question.
1971: Donie O'Sullivan
1972: Donie O'Sullivan, Mick O'Connell
1973: John O'Keeffe
1974: Paudie Lynch
1975: Paudie O'Mahony, John O'Keeffe, Ger Power, Mickey "Ned" O'Sullivan, John Egan
1976: Ger O'Keeffe, John O'Keeffe, Ger Power, Mikey Sheehy, Pat Spillane
1977: Pat Spillane, John Egan
1978: John O'Keeffe, Paudie Lynch, Ger Power, Pat Spillane, Mikey Sheehy, John Egan
1979: John O'Keeffe, Tim Kennelly, Ger Power, Seán Walsh, Pat Spillane, Mikey Sheehy
1980: Charlie Nelligan, Tim Kennelly, Jack O'Shea, Ger Power, Pat Spillane, Eoin Liston, John Egan
1981: Jimmy Deenihan, Paudie Lynch, Páidí Ó Sé, Jack O'Shea, Seán Walsh, Denis "Ogie" Moran, Pat Spillane, Mikey Sheehy, Eoin Liston
1982: Páidí Ó Sé, Jack O'Shea, Mikey Sheehy, Eoin Liston, John Egan
1983: Páidí Ó Sé, Jack O'Shea
1984: Páidí Ó Sé, Tommy Doyle, Tom Spillane, Jack O'Shea, Eoin Liston, Pat Spillane, Mikey Sheehy
1985: Páidí Ó Sé, Mick Spillane, Tommy Doyle, Jack O'Shea, Pat Spillane
1986: Charlie Nelligan, Tommy Doyle, Tom Spillane, Pat Spillane, Mikey Sheehy, Ger Power
1987: Tom Spillane, Ger Lynch
1988: Maurice Fitzgerald
1989: Connie Murphy
1996: Maurice Fitzgerald
1997: Declan O'Keeffe, Séamus Moynihan, Eamonn Breen, Pa Laide, Maurice Fitzgerald
2000: Declan O'Keeffe, Séamus Moynihan , Mike McCarthy, Darragh Ó Sé, Liam Hassett, Mike Frank Russell
2001: Johnny Crowley
2002: Darragh Ó Sé, Colm Cooper
2004: Diarmuid Murphy, Tom O'Sullivan (Rathmore), Mike McCarthy, Tomás Ó Sé , Paul Galvin, Colm Cooper
2005: Diarmuid Murphy, Mike McCarthy, Tomás Ó Sé, Colm Cooper
2006: Marc Ó Sé, Séamus Moynihan, Aidan O'Mahony, Darragh Ó Sé, Paul Galvin, Kieran Donaghy
2007: Marc Ó Sé , Tomás Ó Sé, Aidan O'Mahony, Darragh Ó Sé, Declan O'Sullivan, Colm Cooper
2008: Tomás Ó Sé, Declan O'Sullivan, Colm Cooper, Kieran Donaghy
2009: Diarmuid Murphy, Tom O'Sullivan (Rathmore), Tomás Ó Sé, Séamus Scanlon, Paul Galvin , Tadhg Kennelly, Declan O'Sullivan
2010: Colm Cooper
2011: Marc Ó Sé, Bryan Sheehan, Darran O'Sullivan, Colm Cooper
2013: Colm Cooper, James O'Donoghue
2014: Paul Murphy, Peter Crowley, David Moran, Kieran Donaghy, James O'Donoghue
2015: Brendan Kealy, Shane Enright, Anthony Maher, Donnchadh Walsh
2016: Paul Geaney
2017: Paul Geaney
2018: David Clifford
2019: Tom O'Sullivan (Dingle), David Moran, Seán O'Shea, David Clifford
2021: Tom O'Sullivan (Dingle), Paudie Clifford, David Clifford
2022: Shane Ryan, Jason Foley, Tadhg Morley, Gavin White, Paudie Clifford, Seán O'Shea, David Clifford
2023: Tom O'Sullivan (Dingle), Paudie Clifford, Seán O'Shea, David Clifford
Texaco Footballer of the Year wins (18)
The following Kerry players were named Texaco Footballer of the Year:
1959: Seán Murphy
1962: Mick O'Connell
1969: Mick O'Dwyer
1979: Tom Prendergast
1975: John O'Keeffe
1978: Pat Spillane
1979': Mikey Sheehy
1980: Jack O'Shea
1981: Jack O'Shea
1984: Jack O'Shea
1985: Jack O'Shea
1986: Pat Spillane
1997: Maurice Fitzgerald
2000: Seamus Moynihan
2004: Colm Cooper
2006: Kieran Donaghy
2007: Marc Ó Sé
2009: Paul Galvin
2014: James O'Donoghue
Team of the Millennium (6)
The following Kerry players were among the fifteen selected for the Football Team of the Millennium:
- Dan O'Keeffe (goalkeeper)
- Joe Keohane (full-back)
- Seán Murphy (right half-back)
- Mick O'Connell (midfielder)
- Pat Spillane (left half-forward)
- Mikey Sheehy (right corner-forward)
Team of the Century (6)
The following Kerry players were among the fifteen selected for the Football Team of the Century in 1984:
- Dan O'Keeffe (goalkeeper)
- Seán Murphy (right half-back)
- Jack O'Shea (midfielder)
- Mick O'Connell (midfielder)
- Pat Spillane (left half-forward)
- Mikey Sheehy (right corner-forward)
Ladies' football
- All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championships: 12
- 1976, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1993, 2024
- All-Ireland Under-18 Ladies' Football Championship: 3
- 1980, 1981, 1995
- All-Ireland Under-16 Ladies' Football Championship: 1
- 1999
- All-Ireland Under-14 Ladies' Football Championship: 5
- 1991, 1992, 1993, 1999, 2008
Hurling
- All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championships: 1
- 1891
- All-Ireland Senior B Hurling Championships: 3
- 1976, 1983, 1986
- Christy Ring Cup: 2
- All-Ireland Under 21 B Hurling Championships: 9
- 2001, 2002, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2017, 2018, 2019
- All Ireland Minor B Hurling Championships: 10
- 1997, 2000, 2001, 2006, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
- All-Ireland Junior Hurling Championship: 2
- 1961, 1972
- National Hurling Leagues Division 2: 7
- 1957, 1962, 1967, 1968, 1979, 1998, 2001
- National Hurling Leagues Division 2A: 2
- 2014, 2015
- National Hurling Leagues Division 3: 1
- 1989
- National Hurling Leagues Division 3A: 1
- 2010
- Munster Senior Hurling Championships: 1
- 1891
- Munster Junior Hurling Championships: 1
- 1956
- Munster Intermediate Hurling Championships: 2
- 1970, 1973
- Leinster Minor B Hurling Championships: 2
- 1987, 1988
- Notable hurlers
Michael ‘Boxer’ Slattery Shane Brick Brendan O'Sullivan John Mike Dooley John Healy John Mahony Tom Collins Maurice Leahy Christy Walsh
Camogie
A selected Kerry team won divisional honours at Féile na nGael in 2008, 2009 and 2010. Notable players include Mary Geaney.
Other
Other notable achievements include:
- Pat Spillane, recipient of nine All Stars during a glittering career, a feat matched by no other Gaelic footballer.
- Tadhg Kennelly, the world's only holder of both an AFL Premiership medallion and a Senior All-Ireland Championship medal, the highest possible achievement in the sports of Australian rules football and Gaelic football.
References
- "All-Ireland JFC final: Kerry crowned champions". Hogan Stand. 8 August 2015. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
- "All-Ireland JFC final: back-to-back titles for Kerry". Hogan Stand. 6 August 2016. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
- "Keane praises his crew after Kerry land 19th junior crown". Irish Independent. 23 July 2018. Retrieved 23 July 2018.
- "Geaney turns on style for Kingdom". Irish Examiner. 6 July 2015. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
- "No stopping Kerry minors' Munster dominance". Irish Examiner. 4 July 2016. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
- "Clifford and O'Sullivan star as Kerry cruise to 24-point Munster minor final win". Irish Examiner. 2 July 2017. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
- "Clinical Kerry's early scoring burst leaves Rebels reeling". Irish Examiner. 3 July 2014. Retrieved 3 July 2014.
- "Munster JFC final: Kingdom down Rebels to retain title". Hogan Stand. 1 July 2015. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
- "Munster JFC final: Kingdom retain title with dramatic win over Cork". Hogan Stand. 27 June 2017. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
- The Kerryman, 19 June 1926, p.5
- The Kerryman, 23 November 1907
- The Ulster Herald, 5 July 1913
- "GAA | Latest Gaelic Games News, Results & Fixtures | RTÉ Sport". RTÉ.ie. 24 October 2014.
- "GAA". Archived from the original on 6 March 2012. Retrieved 18 July 2012. GAA website
- Corry, Eoghan (2005). The GAA Book of Lists. Hodder Headline Ireland. p. 238.
- "Nolan inspires Kingdom to Ring Cup final win over Derry". GAA.ie. 6 June 2015. Archived from the original on 2 July 2015. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
External links
- Vintage Kerry GAA Jerseys from Retro GAA
- Kerry on Hoganstand.com
- National and provincial titles won by Kerry teams
- Club championship winners
- Kerry GAA site
- Causeway GAA site Hurling club from North Kerry
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