1976–77 National Football League (Ireland)

Format

Group stage

Knockout stage

References

Division One (North)

Division One (South)

Division Two (North)

Division Two (South)

Quarter-Finals

Semi-Finals

Finals

Play-offs

Table

Play-offs

Table

Group B Play-offs

Inter-Group Play-offs

Group A Table

Group B Table

Inter-Group Play-offs

Group A Table

Group B Table

1976–77 National Football League
League details

Dates	October 1976 – 17 April 1977
Teams	32
League champions
Winners	Kerry (13th win)
Captain	John O'Keeffe
Manager	Mick O'Dwyer
League runners-up
Runners-up	Dublin
Captain	Tony Hanahoe
Manager	Tony Hanahoe (player-manager)
← 1975–76 1977–78 →

The 1976–77 National Football League was the 46th staging of the National Football League (NFL), an annual Gaelic football tournament for the Gaelic Athletic Association county teams of Ireland.

Kerry narrowly beat Dublin in the final.^[1]^[2]^[3]

All 32 counties of Ireland compete: 12 in Division 1 and 20 in Division 2.

Division 1 is composed of two groups of 6 teams (North and South). Each team plays the other teams in its group once, earning 2 points for a win and 1 for a draw.

The first-placed team in each group advances to the NFL semi-finals.
The second-placed team in each group advances to the NFL quarter-finals.
The last-placed team is relegated.

Division 2 is composed of two groups of 10 teams (North and South). Each of these is further divided into two groups of 5. The top two in each group play semi-finals and finals, with the North champions and the South champions advancing to the NFL quarter-finals and being promoted.

6 February 1977 For 1st Place	Mayo	1-9 — 1-6	Roscommon	Tuam

13 March 1977 For 5th Place	Antrim	2-7 — 0-10	Sligo	Clones

^[4]

13 March 1977 For 5th Place	Galway	0-16 — 2-6	Meath	O'Connor Park, Tullamore

16 January 1977 For 1st Place	Cavan	2-10 — 1-5	Leitrim	Pearse Park, Longford

30 January 1977 For 2nd Place	Donegal	0-14 — 1-9 AET	Leitrim	Sligo^[5]

6 February 1977 Semi-Final	Cavan	0-12 — 0-9	Armagh	Ballybay

6 February 1977 Semi-Final	Donegal	1-8 — 0-8	Down	Dungannon

6 March 1977 Final	Cavan	0-12 — 0-9	Donegal	Irvinestown

6 February 1977 Semi-Final	Laois	2-9 — 2-8	Waterford	Carlow

6 February 1977 Semi-Final	Offaly	4-14 — 2-2	Wicklow	Croke Park, Dublin

6 March 1977 Final	Offaly	2-13 — 0-9	Laois	Croke Park, Dublin

Roscommon v Offaly

13 March 1977

Roscommon	1-4 – 0-5	Offaly

Athlone

Dublin v Cavan

13 March 1977

Dublin	2-12 – 1-7	Cavan

Pearse Park, Longford

Mayo v Dublin

27 March 1977

Mayo	0-5 – 2-12	Dublin

Croke Park, Dublin

Kerry v Roscommon

3 April 1977

Kerry	2-13 – 0-8	Roscommon

Croke Park, Dublin^[6]

Kerry v Dublin

17 April 1977
Final

Kerry	1-8 – 1-6	Dublin

Croke Park, Dublin
Attendance: 43,456^[7]
Referee: JJ Landers (Waterford)^[8]

Qualified for Knockout Stages

Qualified for Knockout Stages

Relegated to Division Two of the 1977–78 NFL

↑ GAA Final Teams
↑ Terrace Talk 1977
↑
↑ "GAA Results and Tables", Irish Independent, 6 December 1976, p. 11
↑ "Leitrim crash in extra time", Irish Independent, 31 January 1977, p. 11
↑ http://www.terracetalk.com/kerry-football/year/1977/League
↑ "For The Record, A History of the National Football and Hurling League Finals", Tom Morrison, Collins Press, 2002, ISBN 9781903464151
↑ "For The Record, A History of the National Football and Hurling League Finals", Tom Morrison, Collins Press, 2002, ISBN 9781903464151

National Football Leagues

Seasons	1925–26 1926–27 1927–28 1928–29 1929–30 1930–31 1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44 1944–45 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

Finals Records and statistics Winning players

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 8/22/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.