# 2024 Cork Premier Senior Hurling Championship

The 2024 Cork Premier Senior Hurling Championship was the fifth staging of the Cork Premier Senior Hurling Championship and the 136th staging overall of a championship for the top-ranking hurling teams in Cork. The draw for the group stage placings took place on 14 December 2023. The championship ran from 4 June to 20 October 2024.
Sarsfields were the defending champions
The final was played on 20 October 2024 at SuperValu Páirc Uí Chaoimh in Cork, between Imokilly and Sarsfields, in what was their second meeting in the final overall and a first final meeting in since the 1997 final. Imokilly won the match by 1–23 to 0–17 to claim their sixth championship title overall and a first title in five years.
Midleton's Conor Lehane was the championship's top scorer with 1-55.

## Team changes
### To Championship

Promoted from the Cork Senior A Hurling Championship
* Newcestown

### From Championship

Relegated to the Cork Senior A Hurling Championship
* Glen Rovers

## Participating teams
### Clubs

| Team | Location | Colours | Manager(s) | Captain(s) |
| Bishopstown | Bishopstown | Maroon and white | Martin Hayes | Brian Murray |
| Blackrock | Blackrock | Green and yellow | Jamie Harrington | Cathal Cormack |
| Charleville | Charleville | Red and white | Seoirse Bulfin | Jack Buckley |
| Douglas | Douglas | Green, white and black | Gearóid Reddington | Alan Cadogan |
| Erin's Own | Glounthaune | Blue and red | Martin Buckley | James O'Carroll |
| Fr. O'Neill's | Ballymacoda | Green and red | Dave Colbert Bryan Sweeney | Eoin Motherway |
| Kanturk | Kanturk | White and green | Donal Cronin | Ryan Walsh Lorcán McLoughlin |
| Midleton | Midleton | Black and white | Micheál Keohane | Conor Lehane |
| Newcestown | Newcestown | Red and yellow | Charlie Wilson | Eoghan Collins |
| Newtownshandrum | Newtownshandrum | Green and yellow | Gerdi O’Mahony Alan G. O’Brien | Tim O'Mahony |
| Sarsfields | Glanmire | Blue, black and white | Johnny Crowley | Conor O'Sullivan |
| St. Finbarr's | Togher | Blue and yellow | Ger Cunningham | Damien Cahalane |

### Divisions and colleges

| Team | Location | Colours | Manager | Captain |
| Avondhu | North Cork | Black and yellow | | |
| Carbery | West Cork | Purple and yellow | Joe Ryan | Gearóid O'Donovan |
| Duhallow | Duhallow | Orange and black | Donal O’Mahoney | Conor O’Callaghan |
| Imokilly | East Cork | Red and white | Denis Ring | Ciarán O'Brien |
| Muskerry | Mid Cork | Green and white | Diarmuid Kirwan | Eoin O'Shea |
| University College Cork | College Road | Red and black | | |

## Group A
### Group A table

Semi-finalists  Quarter-finalists  Relegation playoff
| Team | Matches | Matches | Matches | Matches | Score | Score | Score | Pts |
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | For | Against | Diff |
| Sarsfields | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 88 | 49 | 39 | 6 |
| Newtownshandrum | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 75 | 53 | 22 | 4 |
| Douglas | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 55 | 77 | -12 | 2 |
| Bishopstown | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 31 | 80 | -49 | 0 |

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

Quarter-finalists
| Team | Matches | Matches | Matches | Matches | Score | Score | Score | Pts |
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | For | Against | Diff |
| Blackrock | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 77 | 66 | 11 | 6 |
| Fr O'Neill's | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 60 | 61 | -1 | 4 |
| St Finbarr's | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 64 | 62 | 2 | 2 |
| Newcestown | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 60 | 72 | -12 | 0 |

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

Quarter-finalists  Relegation playoff
| Team | Matches | Matches | Matches | Matches | Score | Score | Score | Pts |
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | For | Against | Diff |
| Midleton | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 80 | 68 | 12 | 5 |
| Kanturk | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 77 | 71 | 6 | 5 |
| Erin's Own | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 62 | 64 | -2 | 2 |
| Charleville | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 74 | 90 | -16 | 0 |

### Group C results
## Division/colleges section
### Division/colleges section group stage

Division/colleges section semi-finals
| Team | Matches | Matches | Matches | Matches | Score | Score | Score | Pts |
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | For | Against | Diff |
| Muskerry | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 15 | 9 | 2 |
| Carbery | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 44 | 38 | 6 | 2 |
| Duhallow | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 29 | -15 | 0 |

### Division/colleges section semi-finals

* Avondhu, Imokilly and University College Cork received byes to this stage.

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

| Quarter-Finals | Quarter-Finals | Semi-Finals | Semi-Finals | Final | Final |
| | | Sarsfields | 0-22 | | |
| | | Midleton | 0-21 | | |
| Midleton | 2-20 | Midleton | 0-21 | | |
| Newtownshandrum | 1-15 | | | | |
| Newtownshandrum | 1-15 | | | Sarsfields | 0-17 |
| | | | | Imokilly | 1-23 |
| Blackrock | 3-16 | | | | | Imokilly | 1-23 |
| Kanturk | 0-17 | | | | |
| Kanturk | 0-17 | Blackrock | 1-20 | | |
| | | Imokilly | 1-29 | | |
| Fr O'Neill's | 2-14 | Imokilly | 1-29 | | |
| Imokilly | 0-27 | | | | |

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

| Rank | Player | Club | Tally | Total | Matches | Average |
| 1 | Conor Lehane | Midleton | 1-55 | 58 | 5 | 11.60 |
| 2 | Jack Leahy | Imokilly | 3-45 | 54 | 5 | 10.80 |
| 3 | Declan Dalton | Fr O'Neill's | 3-42 | 51 | 4 | 12.75 |
| 4 | Alan Connolly | Blackrock | 5-32 | 47 | 5 | 9.40 |
| 5 | Daniel Hogan | Sarsfields | 0-44 | 44 | 5 | 8.80 |
| 6 | Jamie Coughlan | Newtownshandrum | 3-25 | 34 | 4 | 8.50 |
| 7 | Brian O'Sullivan | Kanturk | 0-30 | 30 | 4 | 7.50 |
| 8 | Tim Hawe | Charleville | 7-07 | 28 | 4 | 7.00 |
| 9 | Alan Walsh | Kanturk | 5-10 | 25 | 4 | 6.25 |
| 10 | Ben Cunningham | St Finbarr's | 0-24 | 24 | 3 | 8.00 |
| 10 | Darragh Fitzgibbon | Charleville | 0-24 | 24 | 4 | 6.00 |

#### Single game

| Rank | Player | Club | Tally | Total | Opposition |
| 1 | Declan Dalton | Fr O'Neill's | 1-12 | 15 | Imokilly |
| 2 | Conor Lehane | Midleton | 0-14 | 14 | Erin's Own |
| 3 | Brian O'Donovan | Carbery | 2-07 | 13 | Duhallow |
| 3 | Jack Leahy | Imokilly | 2-07 | 13 | Muskerry |
| 3 | Declan Dalton | Fr O'Neill's | 1-10 | 13 | Blackrock |
| 3 | Conor Lehane | Midleton | 0-13 | 13 | Sarsfields |
| 3 | Daniel Hogan | Sarsfields | 0-13 | 13 | Newtownshandrum |
| 8 | Alan Walsh | Kanturk | 3-03 | 12 | Charleville |
| 8 | Jamie Coughlan | Newtownshandrum | 2-06 | 12 | Bishopstown |
| 8 | Declan Dalton | Fr O'Neill's | 1-09 | 12 | Newcestown |
| 8 | Brian O'Sullivan | Kanturk | 0-12 | 12 | Midleton |