title: GAA Football Team of the Century
text: # GAA Football Team of the Century
  
  The Football Team of the Century was chosen as part of the Gaelic Athletic Association's centenary year celebrations in 1984 to comprise, as a fifteen-member side divided as one goalkeeper, three half-backs, two midfielders, three half-forwards and three full-forwards, the best football players of the first one hundred years of the Gaelic Athletic Association. The players on the team were nominated by Sunday Independent readers and were selected by a panel of experts and former players.
  
  A team was also selected of players who had never won an All-Ireland.
  
  | Position | Player | County team | Club(s) | Team Number | All-Ireland SFC, NFL and other honours |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Goalkeeper | Dan O'Keeffe | Kerry | Kerins O'Rahilly's | 1 | All-Ireland SFC - 7 Munster SFC - 13 NFL- 1 |
  | Right corner-back | Enda Colleran | Galway | Mountbellew–Moylough | 2 | All-Ireland SFC - 3 Connacht SFC - 7 NFL- 1 |
  | Full-back | Paddy O'Brien | Meath | Skryne Seán McDermotts (Dublin) | 3 | All-Ireland SFC - 2 Leinster SFC - 5 NFL- 2 |
  | Left corner-back | Seán Flanagan | Mayo | Ballaghaderreen | 4 | All-Ireland SFC - 2 Connacht SFC - 5 NFL- 2 |
  | Right wing-back | Seán Murphy | Kerry | Dingle | 5 | All-Ireland SFC – 3 Munster SFC - 7 NFL- 1 |
  | Centre-back | John Joe O’Reilly | Cavan | Cornafean | 6 | All-Ireland SFC - 2 Ulster SFC – 11 NFL- 1 |
  | Left wing-back | Stephen White | Louth | Cooley Kickhams Mountbellew (Galway) Dundalk Young Irelands | 7 | All-Ireland SFC - 1 Leinster SFC - 4 |
  | Midfield | Mick O'Connell | Kerry | Valentia Young Islanders | 8 | All-Ireland SFC - 4 Munster SFC - 12 NFL- 4 |
  | Midfield | Jack O'Shea | Kerry | St Mary's (Kerry) | 9 | All-Ireland SFC – 7 Munster SFC – 10 NFL- 3 |
  | Right wing-forward | Seán O'Neill | Down | John Mitchels | 10 | All-Ireland SFC – 3 Ulster SFC - 8 NFL- 3 |
  | Centre-forward | Seán Purcell | Galway | Tuam Stars | 11 | All-Ireland SFC - 1 Connacht SFC - 7 |
  | Left wing-forward | Pat Spillane | Kerry | Templenoe | 12 | All-Ireland SFC - 8 Munster SFC - 11 NFL- 2 |
  | Right corner-forward | Mikey Sheehy | Kerry | Austin Stacks | 13 | All-Ireland SFC - 8 Munster SFC – 11 NFL- 3 |
  | Full-forward | Tom Langan | Mayo | Ballycastle | 14 | All-Ireland SFC - 2 Connacht SFC – 3 |
  | Left corner-forward | Kevin Heffernan | Dublin | St Vincents | 15 | All-Ireland SFC - 1 Leinster SFC - 4 |
  