| Irish: | Cumann Lúthchleas Gael Chontae Chiarraí |
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| Province: | Munster |
| Nickname(s): | The Kingdom |
| County colours: | Green and Gold |
| Ground(s): | FitzGerald Stadium, Killarney Austin Stack Park, Tralee |
| Dominant sport: | Gaelic football |
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| NFL: | Division 1 |
| NHL: | Division 2 |
| Football Championship: | Sam Maguire Cup |
| Hurling Championship: | Christy Ring Cup |
| Ladies' Gaelic football: | Brendan Martin Cup |
| Camogie: | Do not compete at adult level |
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The Kerry County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) (or Kerry GAA) is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Kerry. The county board is also responsible for the Kerry inter-county teams.
The Kerry branch of the Gaelic Athletic Association was founded in 1888.
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Kerry are the most successful team in the history of Gaelic football. It has won the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship on 36 occasions and the National Football League 19 times, both of which are far more than any other county. The county holds a number of distinctive records in football championship history. As of 2011, Kerry has contested 56 All-Ireland finals, the next highest participator being Dublin with 36 appearances.
The traditional Irish game of caid, from which modern football developed, was especially popular in Kerry. The GAA was formed in 1884 and codified the modern rules of the game, which were soon adopted in Kerry clubs such as Laune Rangers. Despite this, the county team did not win an All-Ireland football championship in the nineteenth century. The 1903 title was the first won by Kerry, and their exceptional success in the game began in this period, continuing up to the present day.
The Kerry team of the 1970s and 1980s is considered to be arguably the greatest in the history of football [1][2][3] and its manager (Mick O'Dwyer) the greatest of all time.[1][4][5] Of the 20 All-Ireland finals held during those two decades, Kerry participated in 12, with victory coming on 9 occasions. During this time most other finals were won by Dublin, and there was a major rivalry between the two counties especially during the 1970s and 1980s. In 1982 Kerry came within one minute of winning an unprecedented fifth All-Ireland title in a row. However a late goal by Offaly's Séamus Darby which caused controversy (as many claim Darby pushed the Kerry defender in the back) gave the title to Offaly. This goal was voted third in a poll to find the Top 20 GAA Moments.
Towards the end of the 1980s Kerry went into decline and did not appear in an All-Ireland final for 11 years, between 1986 and 1997. The 1997 victory, however, very much marked the beginning of another golden era for Kerry. Of the 15 All-Ireland finals from 1997 to 2011, Kerry have contested 10 and won 6, including 5 titles in the 2000s. In 2007, Kerry became the first team since Cork in 1990 to win back to back All Irelands. On 30 August 2009 Kerry became only the 3rd team to reach 6 All Ireland finals in a row, last achieved by Dublin 1974 to 1979, and went on to secure their 36th title by defeating Cork in the final.
Squad as per Kerry vs Cork (Munster Semi Final 2010)[6] and Kerry's 2011 National League Campaign[7]
For more details on this topic, see here
For more details on this topic see: List of Kerry footballers and hurlers
This is a list of people who have coached/managed the Kerry senior football team in recent years.
| Name | Club | From | To | All-Ireland titles | Munster titles |
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| Jack O'Connor | Piarsaigh Na Dromada | 2009 | 2007 | 2009 | 2007, 2009 |
| Pat O'Shea | Dr.Crokes | 2009 | 2007 | 2009 | 2007, 2009 |
See Kerry's Senior Football Championship Record and List of Kerry All-Ireland Football Finals
The following Kerry players were among the fifteen selected for the Football Team of the Millennium;[8]
(Note that the Railway Cup is contested by provincial sides - these are years in which the Munster team consisted entirely of Kerry players).
All Stars: 123 -
1971: Donie O'Sullivan
1972: Donie O'Sullivan, Mick O'Connell
1973: John O'Keeffe
1974: Paudie Lynch
1975: Ger Power, John O'Keeffe, John Egan, Paudie O'Mahony, Mickey O'Sullivan
1976: Pat Spillane, Mikey Sheehy, Ger Power, John O'Keeffe, Ger O'Keeffe
1977: Pat Spillane, John Egan
1978: Pat Spillane, Mikey Sheehy, Ger Power, John O'Keeffe, John Egan, Paudie Lynch
1979: Pat Spillane, Mikey Sheehy, Ger Power, John O'Keeffe, Tim Kennelly, Seán Walsh
1980: Pat Spillane, Ger Power, Jack O'Shea, John Egan, Eoin Liston, Tim Kennelly, Charlie Nelligan
1981: Pat Spillane, Mikey Sheehy, Jack O'Shea, Páidí Ó Sé, Eoin Liston, Paudie Lynch, Seán Walsh, Jimmy Deenihan, Denis Moran
1982: Mikey Sheehy, Jack O'Shea, John Egan, Páidí Ó Sé, Eoin Liston
1983: Jack O'Shea, Páidí Ó Sé
1984: Pat Spillane, Mikey Sheehy, Jack O'Shea, Páidí Ó Sé, Eoin Liston, Tommy Doyle, Tom Spillane
1985: Pat Spillane, Jack O'Shea, Páidí Ó Sé, Tommy Doyle, Mick Spillane
1986: Pat Spillane, Mikey Sheehy, Ger Power, Tommy Doyle, Tom Spillane, Charlie Nelligan
1987: Tom Spillane, Ger Lynch
1988: Maurice Fitzgerald
1989: Connie Murphy
1996: Maurice Fitzgerald
1997: Maurice Fitzgerald, Declan O'Keeffe, Seamus Moynihan, Eamonn Breen, Pa Laide
2000: Declan O'Keeffe, Seamus 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, Mike McCarthy, Tomás Ó Sé, Paul Galvin, Colm Cooper
2005: Diarmuid Murphy, Mike McCarthy, Tomás Ó Sé, Colm Cooper
2006: Marc Ó Sé, Seamus 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, Tomás Ó Sé, Séamus Scanlon, Paul Galvin, Tadhg Kennelly, Declan O'Sullivan
2010: Colm Cooper
Kerry's first All-Ireland championship win was in hurling. Only club teams were allowed in 1891, so Kilmoyley club, a team from North Kerry, disbanded and joined up with Ballyduff so that their joint team could win the All-Ireland. This remains Kerry's only hurling title. After the game the rules were changed to allow selected county teams in the Championship. It was the first time a Munster team won both Munster and All Irelands in the same year. As well as 1891 Kerry have played in Munster Senior Hurling Championship Finals in 1889, 1890, 1892, 1900 and 1908.
Kerry's most notable hurling achievement in recent times occurred in the 1993 Munster championship when John Meyler's Kerry team shocked Waterford by a score of 4-13 to 3-13. It was reward for years of progress which included a draw with Kilkenny in the National Hurling League. Kerry followed it up in 1995 with its most famous ever League victory, a win over newly crowned All-Ireland champions Clare.
In 2003 team made it to the 4th round of the qualifiers only to go down to Limerick 1-14 to 0-24 in Austin Stack Park in Tralee. Along the way the beat Westmeath, Carlow and beaten Ulster finalists Derry. The wins over Westmeath and Carlow was the first time a Kerry team won 2 Championship games in a row. It was also the first time a Kerry hurling team played more championship games then the football team.
In 2010, Kerry were narrowly defeated by Westmeath in the final of the Christy Ring Cup.
Kerry has played in just one Munster Minor Hurling Championship Final, in 1938, when they lost to a Cork team that included the great Christy Ring. They have won and played in a number of All Ireland B Finals however.
Kerry has never won the Munster Under-21 Hurling Championship, its most notable achievement in the championship came in 2004 when they ran Limerick to 3 points in Austin Stack Park. They have however won and played in a number of All Ireland U21 B Championship Finals.
In 2009 a Kerry Colleges team entered the Munster Senior Colleges Dr. Harty Cup for the first time.
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Squad as per Kerry vs Wicklow (Christy Ring Cup Semi Final 2010)[9]
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Cillard and a selected Kerry team won divisional honours at Féile na nGael in 2008, 2009 and 2010. Notable players include Mary Geaney
Under Camogie’s National Development Plan 2010-2015, “Our Game, Our Passion,”[10] Donegal, Kerry, Mayo and Monaghan are to get a total of 14 new clubs by 2015.[11]
List of Kerry All-Ireland Football Finals
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