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John Kennedy is a Gaelic football manager and former player from County Kerry, Ireland. He led Clare to the 2004 Tommy Murphy Cup.^[1]^[2] He also managed the Kerry minor team between 2006 and 2009, winning Munster Minor Football Championship titles in 2006, 2008 and 2009, and leading his team to the 2006 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship final, where they lost to Roscommon after a replay. He took over as manager of the Kerry under-21 team in 2010. He played at senior level for Kerry in the mid to late 1980s, winning All-Ireland SFC titles in 1984, 1985 and 1986.^[3]

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Preceded byPat Begley Clare Senior Football Manager 2002–2005 Succeeded byDonie Buckley Michael Brennan

Kerry squads

Kerry – 1984 All-Ireland Senior Football Champions (28th title)

Subs not used: 16 M. Sheehy; 19 D. O'Donoghue; 20 J. Higgins; 21 D. Hartnett; 22 G. O'Sullivan; 23 W. O'Connor; 24 V. O'Connor; 25 T. Lynch; 26 M. Keating

Kerry – 1985 All-Ireland Senior Football Champions (29th title)

Subs not used: 16 J. Higgins; 18 G. O'Sullivan; 19 J. Mulvihill; 20 S. Liston; 21 D. Hanafin; 22 D. O'Donoghue; 23 J. Keane; 24 L. Kearns

v t e Clare football team – managers
N. Walsh (?–?) J. Maughan (1990–94) J. O'Keeffe (1994–98) T. Curtin (1998–00) P. Begley (2000–02) J. Kennedy (2002–05) D. Buckley - M. Brennan (2005–06) P. Ó Sé (2006–07) F. Doherty (2007–09) M. McDermott (2009–12) M. O'Dwyer (2012–13) C. Collins (2013–)

v t e Kerry football team – minor managers
C. Nelligan (1992–01) P. O'Shea (2001–03) S. Geaney (2003–05) J. Kennedy (2005–09) P. O'Driscoll (2009–11) M. O'Sullivan (2011–13) J. O'Connor (2013–15) P. Keane (2015–18) J. Costello (2018–2022) ? (2022–)

v t e Kerry football team – under-20 managers
Under-21 (1964–2017)	P. Ó Sé (1992–1995) J. O'Connor (1995–2003) C. Nelligan (2003–2005) J. O'Dwyer (2005–2007) S. Geaney (2007–2009) J. Kennedy (2009–2011) É. Fitzmaurice (2011–2012) D. Ó Sé (2012–2015) J. O'Connor (2015–2017)
Under-20 (2018–)	J. O'Connor (2017–2019) J. Sugrue (2019–2020) D. O'Sullivan (2020–2022) T. Ó Sé (2022–)