John Long (born 1952) is an Irish retired Gaelic footballer.
His league and championship career with the Kerry senior team spanned six seasons from 1972 to 1977.
[1] Long made his debut on the inter-county scene at the age of seventeen when he was picked on the Kerry minor team having previously won an All-Ireland schools title, the Hogan Cup, with St. Brendan's Killarney in 1969.
Long never played under-21 football with Kerry, however, he joined the senior team during the 1971-72 league.
Over the course of the next six seasons, Long made a number of appearances on the team but failed to nail down a regular place on the starting fifteen.