1930 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final

{{Infobox football match

| title = 1930 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final

| image = Kerry gaa football team 1930.jpg

| caption = Kerry, champions

| event = 1930 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

| team1 = {{GG|Kerry|football}}

| team1association = 40px

| team1score = 3–11
(20)

| team2 = {{GG|Monaghan|football}}

| team2association = 40px

| team2score = 0–2
(2)

| details =

| date = 28 September 1930

| stadium = Croke Park

| city = Dublin

| man_of_the_match1a =

| referee = Jim Byrne (Wexford)

| attendance = 33,280

| weather =

| previous = 1929

| next = 1931

}}

The 1930 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the 43rd All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1930 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.

Match

=Summary=

Monaghan scored first, but Kerry won comprehensively with goals by John Joe Landers, John Joe Sheehy (who was captain of the team) and Ned Sweeney.High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.

It was the first of five All-Ireland SFC titles won by Kerry in the 1930s.{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/kerry-on-honour-roll-26565988.html|title=Kerry on honour roll|newspaper=Irish Independent|date=14 September 2009|access-date=14 September 2009}}

This was also the first championship meeting of Kerry and Monaghan.{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/kerry-fullhouse-awaits-kilkenny-26882432.html|title=Kerry full-house awaits Kilkenny|newspaper=Irish Independent|date=2 August 2012|access-date=2 August 2012}} It remains Monaghan's only final appearance.

Monaghan's goalkeeper for this game, Thomas Bradley, was a First World War veteran, who had been at the Battle of the Somme and Battle of Passchendaele.{{cite web|url=https://www.gaa.ie/news/ww1-and-the-gaa-thomas-bradley/|title=WW1 and the GAA - Thomas Bradley|date=6 November 2018}}