# 2024 Cork Premier Senior Football Championship

The 2024 Cork Premier Senior Football Championship was the fifth staging of the Cork Premier Senior Football Championship and the 136th staging overall of a championship for the top-ranking Gaelic football teams in Cork. The draw for the group stage placings took place on 14 December 2023. The championship ran from 13 June to 27 October 2024.
Castlehaven were the defending champions.
The final was played on 27 October 2024 at SuperValu Páirc Uí Chaoimh in Cork, between Castlehaven and Nemo Rangers, in what was their fifth meeting in the final overall and a second consecutive meeting in the final. Castlehaven won the match by 0-16 to 0-11 to claim their seventh championship title overall and a second consecutive title.
Steven Sherlock was the championship's top scorer with 4-32.

## Team changes
### To Championship

Promoted from the Cork Senior A Football Championship
* Newcestown

### From Championship

Relegated to the Cork Senior A Football Championship
* Carrigaline

## Participating teams
### Clubs

| Team | Location | Colours | Manager | Captain |
| Ballincollig | Ballincollig | Green and white | Podsie O'Mahony | Luke Fahy |
| Carbery Rangers | Rosscarbery | Green, white and gold | Séamus Hayes | Paul Shanahan |
| Castlehaven | Castlehaven | Blue and white | Seánie Cahalane | Mark Collins |
| Clonakilty | Clonakilty | Green and red | Martin O'Brien | Mark White |
| Douglas | Douglas | Green, white and black | Brian Collins | Darragh Kelly |
| Éire Óg | Ovens | Red and yellow | Paudie Kissane | Daire McCarthy |
| Mallow | Mallow | Red and yellow | Andrew Cashman | Mattie Taylor |
| Nemo Rangers | Trabeg | Black and green | Robbie O'Dwyer | Alan O'Donovan |
| Newcestown | Newcestown | Red and yellow | Jim O'Sullivan | Luke Meade |
| St Finbarr's | Togher | Blue and yellow | Brian Roche | Ian Maguire |
| St Michael's | Blackrock | Green and yellow | Pat Doyle | Andrew Murphy |
| Valley Rovers | Innishannon | Green and white | Denis Kiely | Darragh Murphy |

### Divisions and colleges

| Team | Location | Colours | Manager | Captain(s) |
| Avondhu | North Cork | Black and yellow | | |
| Carbery | West Cork | Purple and yellow | Colm Aherne | |
| Duhallow | Duhallow | Orange and black | Éamonn Moynihan | Kevin Cremin Donncha O'Connor |
| Muskerry | Mid Cork | Green and white | Joint team | Eoghan Lehane |
| University College Cork | College Road | Red and black | | |

## Group A
### Group A table

Quarter-finalists  Relegation playoff
| Team | Matches | Matches | Matches | Matches | Score | Score | Score | Pts |
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | For | Against | Diff |
| Nemo Rangers | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 44 | 29 | 15 | 6 |
| Ballincollig | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 29 | 26 | 3 | 4 |
| Newcestown | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 31 | 36 | -5 | 2 |
| Éire Óg | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 29 | 42 | -13 | 0 |

### Group A results
## Group B
### Group B table

Semi-finalists  Quarter-finalists  Relegation playoff
| Team | Matches | Matches | Matches | Matches | Score | Score | Score | Pts |
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | For | Against | Diff |
| Castlehaven | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 59 | 29 | 30 | 6 |
| Clonakilty | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 51 | 42 | 9 | 3 |
| St Michael's | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 25 | 46 | -31 | 2 |
| Carbery Rangers | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 29 | 37 | -8 | 1 |

### Group B results
## Group C
### Group C table

Quarter-finalists
| Team | Matches | Matches | Matches | Matches | Score | Score | Score | Pts |
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | For | Against | Diff |
| St Finbarr's | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 53 | 39 | 14 | 4 |
| Mallow | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 42 | 45 | -3 | 3 |
| Valley Rovers | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 34 | 46 | -12 | 3 |
| Douglas | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 31 | 30 | 1 | 2 |

### Group C results
## Division/colleges section
### Division/colleges seeded section semi-finals

* Carbery, Duhallow and University College Cork received byes to this stage.

### Division/colleges seeded section final
## Knockout stage
### Bracket

| Quarter-Finals | Quarter-Finals | Semi-Finals | Semi-Finals | Final |
| | | Castlehavan | 0-18 | |
| | | St Finbarr's | 0-14 | |
| Ballincollig | 2-10 | St Finbarr's | 0-14 | |
| St Finbarr's | 2-15 | | | |
| St Finbarr's | 2-15 | | | Castlehavan |
| | | | | Nemo Rangers |
| Mallow | 3-15 | | | | Nemo Rangers |
| Muskerry | 2-11 | | | |
| Muskerry | 2-11 | Mallow | 1-05 | |
| | | Nemo Rangers | 2-11 | |
| Nemo Rangers | 0-19 | Nemo Rangers | 2-11 | |
| Clonakilty | 2-13 | | | |

### Final
## Championship statistics
### Top scorers
#### Overall

| Rank | Player | Club | Tally | Total | Matches | Average |
| 1 | Steven Sherlock | St Finbarr's | 4-32 | 44 | 5 | 8.80 |
| 2 | Brian Hurley | Castlehaven | 0-28 | 28 | 5 | 5.00 |
| 3 | Seán McDonnell | Mallow | 2-19 | 25 | 5 | 5.00 |
| 4 | Paul Kerrigan | Nemo Rangers | 1-21 | 24 | 6 | 4.00 |
| 5 | Conor Daly | Clonakilty | 1-20 | 23 | 4 | 5.75 |
| 6 | Cian Dorgan | Ballincollig | 1-19 | 22 | 4 | 5.50 |
| 6 | Mark Cronin | Nemo Rangers | 1-19 | 22 | 6 | 3.66 |
| 8 | Jack Cahalane | Castlehaven | 2-14 | 20 | 5 | 4.00 |
| 9 | Chris Óg Jones | Muskerry | 2-11 | 17 | 3 | 5.66 |
| 10 | Darragh Gough | Clonakilty | 2-10 | 16 | 4 | 4.00 |

#### Single game

| Rank | Player | Club | Tally | Total | Opposition |
| 1 | Ed Myers | Muskerry | 2-05 | 11 | Avondhu |
| 1 | Steven Sherlock | St Finbarr's | 2-05 | 11 | Valley Rovers |
| 1 | Brian Hurley | Castlehaven | 0-11 | 11 | St Finbarr's |
| 4 | Mark Lenahan | Avondhu | 1-07 | 10 | Muskerry |
| 4 | Conor Daly | Clonakilty | 1-07 | 10 | Nemo Rangers |
| 4 | Steven Sherlock | St Finbarr's | 1-07 | 10 | Mallow |
| 4 | Steven Sherlock | St Finbarr's | 0-10 | 10 | Ballincollig |
| 8 | Seán McDonnell | Mallow | 1-06 | 9 | St Finbarr's |
| 9 | David O'Connor | Duhallow | 2-02 | 8 | UCC |
| 9 | Darragh Gough | Clonakilty | 1-05 | 8 | St Michael's |
| 9 | Paul Kerrigan | Nemo Rangers | 1-05 | 8 | Mallow |