# 2023 Cork Premier Senior Football Championship

The 2023 Cork Premier Senior Football Championship was the fourth staging of the Cork Premier Senior Football Championship and the 135th staging overall of a championship for the top-ranking Gaelic football teams in Cork. The draw for the group stage placings took place on 11 December 2022. The championship ran from 8 June to 29 October 2023.
Nemo Rangers entered the championship as the defending champions. Carrigaline's relegation ended eight years of top flight football for the club.
The final was played on 29 October 2023 at Páirc Uí Chaoimh in Cork, between Nemo Rangers and Castlehaven, in what was their fourth ever meeting in the final overall and a first meeting in three years. Castlehaven won the match by 0-11 to 0-09 to claim their sixth championship title overall and a first title in ten years.
Steven Sherlock was the championship's top scorer with 2-24.

## Team changes
### To Championship

Promoted from the Cork Senior A Football Championship
* St. Michael's

### From Championship

Relegated to the Cork Senior A Football Championship
* Newcestown

## Participating teams
### Clubs

| Team | Location | Colours | Manager | Captain |
| Ballincollig | Ballincollig | Green and white | Podsie O'Mahony | |
| Carbery Rangers | Rosscarbery | Green, white and gold | Séamus Hayes | |
| Carrigaline | Carrigaline | Blue and yellow | Michael Meaney | Ian Sheerin |
| Castlehaven | Castlehaven | Blue and white | James McCarthy | 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 | |
| Mallow | Mallow | Red and yellow | Declan O'Connell | Ryan Harkin |
| Nemo Rangers | Trabeg | Black and green | Paul O'Donovan | Alan O'Donovan |
| St Finbarr's | Togher | Blue and yellow | Paul O'Keeffe | Ian Maguire |
| St Michael's | Togher | Green and yellow | Dave Egan | Andrew Murphy |
| Valley Rovers | Innishannon | Green and white | Paul Cronin | |

### Divisions and colleges

| Team | Location | Colours | Manager | Captain(s) |
| Avondhu | North Cork | Black and yellow | | Gavin Creedon Jack Twomey |
| Beara | Beara Peninsula | Red and white | n/a | n/a |
| Carbery | West Cork | Purple and yellow | Tim Buckley | Brian O'Driscoll |
| Duhallow | North-West Cork | Orange and black | Ger O'Sullivan | Kevin Cremin Jack Murphy Donncha O'Connor |
| Imokilly | East Cork | Red and white | Eoin O'Neill | Tadhg O'Donoghue |
| Muskerry | Mid Cork | Green and white | Danny Buckley | William Rohan |
| University College Cork | College Road | Red and black | | |

## Group A
### Group A table

Knockout stage
| Team | Matches | Matches | Matches | Matches | Score | Score | Score | Pts |
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | For | Against | Diff |
| Castlehaven | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 45 | 37 | 8 | 5 |
| Clonakilty | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 43 | 37 | 6 | 3 |
| Valley Rovers | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 38 | 46 | -8 | 2 |
| Carbery Rangers | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 28 | 34 | -6 | 2 |

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

Knockout stage  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 | 43 | 27 | 16 | 6 |
| Ballincollig | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 40 | 43 | -3 | 4 |
| Éire Óg | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 36 | 38 | -2 | 2 |
| Carrigaline | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 35 | 46 | -11 | 0 |

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

Knockout stage  Relegation playoff
| Team | Matches | Matches | Matches | Matches | Score | Score | Score | Pts |
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | For | Against | Diff |
| St. Finbarr's | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 60 | 29 | 31 | 6 |
| Douglas | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 34 | 41 | -7 | 2 |
| St. Michael's | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 34 | 41 | -7 | 2 |
| Mallow | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 30 | 48 | -18 | 2 |

### Group C results
## Knockout stage
### Bracket

| Playoff | Playoff | Playoff | Quarter-Finals | Quarter-Finals | Quarter-Finals | Semi-Finals | Semi-Finals | Semi-Finals | Final | Final |
| | | | Nemo Rangers | Nemo Rangers | 0-05 | | | | | |
| | | | Clonakilty | Clonakilty | 0-04 | | | | | |
| | | | | | | Nemo Rangers | Nemo Rangers | 3-10 | | |
| | | | | | | Duhallow | Duhallow | 1-08 | | |
| | | | Duhallow | Duhallow | 3-11 | | | | | |
| Douglas | Douglas | 0-12 | Douglas | Douglas | 0-10 | | | | | |
| St Michael's | St Michael's | 1-08 | | | | | | | Nemo Rangers | Nemo Rangers |
| | | | | | | | | | Castlehaven | Castlehaven |
| | | | | | | St Finbarr's | St Finbarr's | 2-11 | | |
| | | | | | | Castlehaven | Castlehaven | 1-16 | | |
| | | | Castlehaven | Castlehaven | 0-14 | | | | | |
| | | | Ballincollig | Ballincollig | 1-08 | | | | | |

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

| Rank | Player | Club | Tally | Total | Matches | Average |
| 1 | Steven Sherlock | St Finbarr's | 2-24 | 30 | 3 | 10.00 |
| 2 | Donncha O'Connor | Duhallow | 0-29 | 29 | 7 | 4.14 |
| 3 | Cian Dorgan | Ballincollig | 1-20 | 23 | 4 | 5.75 |
| 4 | Mikey McAuliffe | Duhallow | 5-07 | 22 | 7 | 3.14 |
| 4 | Brian Coakley | Carrigaline | 3-13 | 22 | 5 | 4.40 |
| 4 | Brian Hurley | Castlehaven | 1-19 | 22 | 5 | 4.40 |
| 7 | Mark Cronin | Nemo Rangers | 1-17 | 20 | 6 | 3.33 |
| 8 | Conor Russell | Douglas | 1-16 | 19 | 5 | 3.80 |
| 9 | Michael Hurley | Castlehaven | 0-18 | 18 | 6 | 3.00 |
| 10 | Luke Connolly | Nemo Rangers | 2-11 | 17 | 5 | 3.40 |
| 10 | Jack Cahalane | Castlehaven | 2-11 | 17 | 6 | 2.83 |
| 10 | Luke Murphy | Duhallow | 2-11 | 17 | 7 | 2.42 |
| 10 | Fiachra Lynch | Valley Rovers | 0-17 | 17 | 3 | 5.66 |

#### In a single game

| Rank | Player | Club | Tally | Total | Opposition |
| 1 | Steven Sherlock | St Finbarr's | 1-10 | 13 | Mallow |
| 2 | Steven Sherlock | St Finbarr's | 1-07 | 10 | Castlehaven |
| 3 | Mikey McAuliffe | Duhallow | 2-03 | 9 | Imokilly |
| 3 | Luke Connolly | Nemo Rangers | 2-03 | 9 | Duhallow |
| 5 | Fiachra Lynch | Valley Rovers | 0-08 | 8 | Carbery Rangers |
| 6 | Ian Maguire | St Finbarr's | 2-01 | 7 | Mallow |
| 6 | Brian Coakley | Carrigaline | 2-01 | 7 | Mallow |
| 6 | Brian Hurley | Castlehaven | 1-04 | 7 | Clonakilty |
| 6 | Cian Dorgan | Ballincollig | 1-04 | 7 | Carrigaline |
| 6 | Donncha O'Connor | Duhallow | 0-07 | 7 | Muskerry |
| 6 | Fiachra Lynch | Valley Rovers | 0-07 | 7 | Clonakilty |
| 6 | Steven Sherlock | St Finbarr's | 0-07 | 7 | St Michael's |
| 6 | Cian Dorgan | Ballincollig | 0-07 | 7 | Éire óg |
| 6 | Daniel Goulding | Éire óg | 0-07 | 7 | Ballincollig |
| 6 | Michael Hurley | Castlehaven | 0-07 | 7 | St Finbarr's |

### Miscellaneous

* The Group C round 2 match between St Finbarr's and St Michael's, originally scheduled for 18 August 2023, was postponed by 24 hours due to Storm Betty.
* Donncha O'Connor became the first player to surpass the cumulative total of 400 points when he scored six points in the divisional/colleges section game against Carbery.