1982 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final
| Event | 1982 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship | ||||||
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| Date | 19 September 1982 | ||||||
| Venue | Croke Park, Dublin | ||||||
| Referee | P. J. McGrath (Mayo; Kilmaine) | ||||||
| Attendance | 62,309 | ||||||
| Weather | Rain | ||||||
The 1982 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the 95th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1982 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland. The game, played at Croke Park in Dublin, culminated in one of the most famous goals of all time.
Kerry entered the match as heavy favourite to complete an unprecedented five consecutive All-Ireland SFC titles, having won the previous four titles in a run that stretched back to 1978. Kerry's opponent Offaly had not won an All-Ireland SFC title since 1972.
Kerry and Offaly had met in the 1980 semi-final and the 1981 final, Kerry emerging as victors on both occasions. Indeed, Kerry had not lost a championship game since the 1977 semi-final. However, this time, a last-minute Séamus Darby goal — struck past the hapless Charlie Nelligan — deprived Kerry of their five-in-a-row dream. This was one of the 13 consecutive All-Ireland SFC finals contested by either Dublin or Kerry between 1974 and 1986, a period when one of either team always contested the decider, and the only one of those 13 won by another team. As a result, Kerry had to put away their "Five in a Row" song, which had been prepared especially for the occasion.