Cork–Clare | |
City Or Region: | County Clare County Cork |
First Contested: | Clare 2–9 – 3–4 Cork 1899 Munster semi-final (13 May 1900) |
Teams Involved: | Clare Cork |
Most Player Appearances: | Christy Ring (10) |
Top Scorer: | Christy Ring (4–41) |
Mostrecent: | Clare 3-29 Cork 1-34 2024 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship final (21 July 2024) |
Nextmeeting: | TBA |
Total: | 62 |
Largestvictory: | Cork 6–8 – 0–2 Clare 1922 Munster quarter-final (22 April 1923) |
The Cork–Clare rivalry is a hurling rivalry between Irish county teams Cork and Clare.
While both teams play provincial hurling in the Munster Senior Hurling Championship, they have also enjoyed success in the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, having won 35 championship titles between them to date. They played one another for the first time at an All Ireland Final at the 2013 final on 8 September 2013. This match ended in a draw and Clare won the replay 5–16 – 3–16.[1] Clare beat Cork again in the 2024 All Ireland final in extra time.
While Cork are regarded as one of the "big three" of hurling, with Kilkenny and Tipperary completing the trio, Clare have generally been regarded as one of the minnows of hurling for much of their championship lives. Due to both teams playing in the Munster series, meetings between Cork and Clare have been regular since the beginning of the provincial championship in 1888.
The first great era of the rivalry came between 1927 and 1932, when Cork and Clare played each other on six occasions. While Cork had the bragging rights from the first three games, Clare defeated Cork, who were the reigning All-Ireland champions, in 1930. It was only their third ever defeat of Cork and a first in sixteen years. Cork reasserted their supremacy the following year by defeating Clare and claiming the subsequent All-Ireland crown, however, Clare dumped a depleted Cork team out of the championship in 1932.
The rivalry reached new heights in 1977 and 1978, when the Munster decider on both occasions was contested by Cork and Clare. Clare won the National Hurling League in both 1977 and 1978 and had high hopes of claiming championship honours. The era belonged to Cork, however, as their triumph in both provincial deciders led to the team securing a hat-trick of All-Ireland crowns.
One of the most intense periods in the rivalry occurred between 1993 and 1999. For the first time ever, Clare secured four successive championship victories over Cork (1993, 1995, 1997 and 1998). In 1999 Clare, as Munster champions, faced Cork in one of the defining games of the year. In a changing of the guard, a young Cork team triumphed over a Clare team who had won two All-Ireland titles and three Munster titles in the previous three years.
Up to date as of the end of the 2024 Championship season
Team | All-Ireland | Munster | National League | Total | |
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Cork | 30 | 54 | 14 | 98 | |
5 | 7 | 5 | 17 | ||
Combined | 35 | 61 | 19 | 115 |
Cork win | ||
Clare win | ||
Drawn game |
width=1 | width=5 | No. | width=150 | Date | width=100 | Winners | width=70 | Score | width=100 | Runners-up | width=120 | Venue | width=140 | Competition | |
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1. | 13 May 1900 | Clare (1) | 2–9 – 3–4 | Cork | MSHC semi-final | ||||||||||
2. | 26 April 1903 | Cork (1) | 3–10 – 2–6 | Clare | MSHC final | ||||||||||
3. | 28 June 1903 | Cork (2) | 6–7 – 3–3 | Clare | MSHC quarter-final | ||||||||||
4. | 20 September 1914 | Clare (2) | 3–2 – 3–1 | Cork | MSHC final | ||||||||||
5. | 26 September 1915 | Cork (3) | 8–2 – 2–1 | Clare | MSHC final | ||||||||||
6. | 22 April 1923 | Cork (4) | 6–8 – 0–2 | Clare | MSHC quarter-final | ||||||||||
7. | 7 August 1927 | Cork (5) | 5–3 – 3–4 | Clare | MSHC final | ||||||||||
8. | 15 July 1928 | Cork | 2–2 – 2–2 | Clare | MSHC final | ||||||||||
9. | 29 July 1928 | Cork (6) | 6–4 – 2–2 | Clare | MSHC final replay | ||||||||||
10. | 6 July 1930 | Clare (3) | 6–6 – 5–6 | Cork | MSHC semi-final | ||||||||||
11. | 28 June 1931 | Cork (7) | 3–4 – 1–6 | Clare | MSHC quarter-final | ||||||||||
12. | 31 July 1932 | Clare (4) | 5–2 – 4–1 | Cork | MSHC final | ||||||||||
13. | 14 July 1935 | Cork (8) | 8–3 – 2–4 | Clare | MSHC quarter-final | ||||||||||
14. | 5 July 1936 | Clare | 4–4 – 3–7 | Cork | MSHC quarter-final | ||||||||||
15. | 12 July 1936 | Clare (5) | 9–1 – 2–3 | Cork | MSHC quarter-final replay | ||||||||||
16. | 7 July 1940 | Cork (9) | 7–6 – 3–5 | Clare | MSHC quarter-final | ||||||||||
17. | 9 June 1946 | Cork (10) | 2–9 – 2–1 | Clare | MSHC quarter-final | ||||||||||
18. | 15 June 1947 | Cork (11) | 4–9 – 0–4 | Clare | MSHC quarter-final | ||||||||||
19. | 1 July 1951 | Cork (12) | 5–7 – 3–5 | Clare | MSHC semi-final | ||||||||||
20. | 28 June 1953 | Cork (13) | 2–11 – 4–2 | Clare | MSHC semi-final | ||||||||||
21. | 5 June 1955 | Clare (6) | 3–8 – 2–10 | Cork | MSHC semi-final | ||||||||||
22. | 12 May 1957 | Cork (14) | 4–10 – 2–6 | Clare | MSHC quarter-final | ||||||||||
23. | 18 May 1958 | Cork (15) | 5–9 – 3–9 | Clare | MSHC quarter-final | ||||||||||
24. | 21 June 1959 | Cork (16) | 4–15 – 1–3 | Clare | MSHC semi-final | ||||||||||
25. | 12 June 1960 | Cork (17) | 2–12 – 1–11 | Clare | MSHC semi-final | ||||||||||
26. | 26 May 1963 | Cork (18) | 4–15 – 2–11 | Clare | MSHC quarter-final | ||||||||||
27. | 19 June 1966 | Cork | 3–8 – 3–8 | Clare | MSHC quarter-final | ||||||||||
28. | 3 July 1966 | Cork (19) | 5–11 – 1–7 | Clare | MSHC quarter-final replay | ||||||||||
29. | 11 May 1969 | Cork | 2–11 – 4–5 | Clare | MSHC quarter-final | ||||||||||
30. | 15 June 1969 | Cork (20) | 3–8 – 1–4 | Clare | MSHC quarter-final replay | ||||||||||
31. | 30 July 1972 | Cork (21) | 6–18 – 2–8 | Clare | MSHC final | ||||||||||
32. | 29 June 1975 | Cork (22) | 3–14 – 1–9 | Clare | MSHC semi-final | ||||||||||
33. | 10 July 1977 | Cork (23) | 4–15 – 4–10 | Clare | MSHC final | ||||||||||
34. | 30 July 1978 | Cork (24) | 0–13 – 0–11 | Clare | MSHC final | ||||||||||
35. | 14 June 1981 | Clare (7) | 2–15 2–13 | Cork | MSHC semi-final | ||||||||||
36. | 20 June 1982 | Cork (25) | 3–19 – 2–6 | Clare | MSHC semi-final | ||||||||||
37. | 20 July 1986 | Cork (26) | 2–18 – 3–12 | Clare | MSHC final | ||||||||||
38. | 19 June 1988 | Cork (27) | 3–22 – 2–9 | Clare | MSHC semi-final | ||||||||||
39. | 13 June 1993 | Clare (8) | 2–7 – 0–10 | Cork | MSHC semi-final | ||||||||||
40. | 4 June 1995 | Clare (9) | 2–13 – 3–9 | Cork | MSHC semi-final | ||||||||||
41. | 8 June 1997 | Clare (10) | 1–19 – 0–18 | Cork | MSHC semi-final | ||||||||||
42. | 21 June 1998 | Clare (11) | 0–21 – 0–13 | Cork | MSHC semi-final | ||||||||||
43. | 4 July 1999 | Cork (28) | 1–15 – 0–14 | Clare | MSHC final | ||||||||||
44. | 9 June 2003 | Cork (29) | 1–18 – 0–10 | Clare | MSHC semi-final | ||||||||||
45. | 14 August 2005 | Cork (30) | 0–16 – 0–15 | Clare | AISHC semi-final | ||||||||||
46. | 28 May 2006 | Cork (32) | 0–20 – 0–14 | Clare | MSHC semi-final | ||||||||||
47. | 27 May 2007 | Cork (32) | 1–18 – 1–11 | Clare | MSHC quarter-final | ||||||||||
48. | 27 July 2008 | Cork (33) | 2–19 – 2–17 | Clare | AISHC quarter-final | ||||||||||
49. | 23 June 2013 | Cork (34) | 0–23 – 0–15 | Clare | MSHC semi-final | ||||||||||
50. | 8 September 2013 | Cork | 3–16 – 0–25 | Clare | AISHC Final | ||||||||||
51. | 28 September 2013 | Clare (12) | 5–16 – 3–16 | Cork | AISHC Final | ||||||||||
52. | 15 June 2014 | Cork (35) | 2–23 – 2–18 | Clare | MSHC semi-final | ||||||||||
53. | 11 July 2015 | Cork (36) | 0–20 – 0–17 | Clare | All Ireland Qualifiers | ||||||||||
54. | 9 July 2017 | Cork (37) | 1–25 – 1–20 | Clare | MSHC final | ||||||||||
55. | 20 May 2018 | Cork (38) | 2–23 – 1–21 | Clare | MSHC Round 1 | ||||||||||
56. | 1 July 2018 | Cork (39) | 2–24 – 3–19 | Clare | MSHC final | ||||||||||
57. | 16 July 2019 | Clare (13) | 2–23 – 2–18 | Cork | MSHC Round 5 | ||||||||||
58. | 24 July 2021 | Cork (40) | 3–19 – 1–23 | Clare | All-Ireland Qualifiers | ||||||||||
59. | 1 May 2022 | Clare (14) | 0–28 – 2–20 | Cork | MSHC Round 3 | ||||||||||
60. | 21 May 2023[2] | Clare (15) | 2–22 – 3–18 | Cork | MSHC Round 4 | ||||||||||
61. | 28 April 2024[3] | Clare (16) | 3–26 – 3–24 | Cork | MSHC Round 2 | ||||||||||
62. | 21 July 2024[4] | Clare (17) | 3–29 – 1–34 (AET) | Cork | AISHC Final |