# 2020 Cork Senior A Hurling Championship

The 2020 Cork Senior A Hurling Championship was the first staging of the Cork Senior A Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board. The draw for the group stage placings took place on 19 November 2019. The championship was scheduled to begin in April 2020, however, it was postponed indefinitely due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Gaelic games. The championship began on 31 July 2020 and ended on 4 October 2020.
On 4 October 2020, Charleville won the championship after a 3–12 to 1–14 win over Fr. O'Neill's in the final at Páirc Uí Chaoimh. This was their first championship title in the grade.
Charleville's Darragh Fitzgibbon was the championship's top scorer with 2-51.

## Format change

On 26 March 2019, three championship proposals were circulated to Cork club delegates. A core element running through all three proposals, put together by the Cork GAA games workgroup, was that there be a group stage of 12 teams and straight relegation and promotion. On 2 April 2019, a majority of 136 club delegates voted for Option A which would see one round of games played in April, with two more following in August – all with county players available.

## Team changes
### To Championship

Regraded from the Cork Senior Hurling Championship
* Ballymartle
* Bandon
* Bride Rovers
* Charleville
* Kanturk
* Killeagh
* Newcestown
Promoted from the Cork Premier Intermediate Hurling Championship
* Cloyne
* Fermoy
* Fr. O'Neill's
* Kilworth
* Mallow

## Participating teams

| Team | Location | Colours |
| Bandon | Bandon | Yellow and white |
| Ballymartle | Riverstick | Green and yellow |
| Bride Rovers | Rathcormac | Green, white and yellow |
| Charleville | Charleville | Red and white |
| Cloyne | Cloyne | Red and black |
| Fermoy | Fermoy | Black and yellow |
| Fr. O'Neill's | Ballymacoda/Ladysbridge | Green and red |
| Kanturk | Kanturk | Green and yellow |
| Killeagh | Killeagh | Green and white |
| Kilworth | Kilworth | Red and white |
| Mallow | Mallow | Red and yellow |
| Newcestown | Newcestown | Red and yellow |

## Group A
### Table

Advance to knockout stage  Advance to relegation play-offs
| Team | Matches | Matches | Matches | Matches | Score | Score | Score | Pts |
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | For | Against | Diff |
| Kanturk | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 10-51 | 3-42 | 30 | 6 |
| Newcestown | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4-59 | 7-35 | 15 | 4 |
| Cloyne | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4-42 | 4-60 | -18 | 2 |
| Killeagh | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2-47 | 6-62 | -27 | 0 |

### Results
## Group B
### Table

Advance to knockout stage
| Team | Matches | Matches | Matches | Matches | Score | Score | Score | Pts |
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | For | Against | Diff |
| Charleville | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6-64 | 1-48 | 31 | 6 |
| Bandon | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1-56 | 4-59 | -12 | 3 |
| Fermoy | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0-46 | 3-51 | -14 | 2 |
| Mallow | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2-51 | 1-59 | -5 | 1 |

### Results
## Group C
### Table

Advance to knockout stage  Advance to relegation play-offs
| Team | Matches | Matches | Matches | Matches | Score | Score | Score | Pts |
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | For | Against | Diff |
| Fr. O'Neill's | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 10-55 | 2-45 | 34 | 6 |
| Bride Rovers | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1-49 | 1-46 | 3 | 4 |
| Ballymartle | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4-40 | 9-52 | -27 | 2 |
| Kilworth | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2-48 | 5-49 | -10 | 0 |

### Results
## Knockout stage
### Bracket

| Quarter-Finals | Quarter-Finals | Semi-Finals | Semi-Finals | Final | Final |
| Kanturk (Duhallow) | 2-15 | | | | |
| Bandon (Carbery) | 0-15 | | | | |
| Bandon (Carbery) | 0-15 | Charleville (Avondhu) | 2-26 | | |
| | | Kanturk (Duhallow) | 3-18 | | |
| | | | | Charleville (Avondhu) | 1-23 |
| | | | | Fr. O'Neill's (Imokilly) | 4-13 |
| Newcestown (Carbery) | 1-14 | | | | | Fr. O'Neill's (Imokilly) | 4-13 |
| Bride Rovers (Imokilly) | 0-11 | | | | |
| Bride Rovers (Imokilly) | 0-11 | Fr. O'Neill's (Imokilly) | 4-13 | | |
| | | Newcestown (Carbery) | 1-13 | | |

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

| Rank | Player | Club | Tally | Total | Matches | Average |
| 1 | Darragh Fitzgibbon | Charleville | 2-51 | 57 | 5 | 11.40 |
| 2 | Declan Dalton | Fr. O'Neill's | 7-35 | 56 | 5 | 11.20 |
| 3 | Cian Healy | Newcestown | 2-41 | 47 | 5 | 9.40 |
| 4 | William Finnegan | Bride Rovers | 0-34 | 34 | 4 | 8.50 |
| 5 | Lorcán McLoughlin | Kanturk | 2-26 | 32 | 5 | 6.40 |
| 6 | Billy Dunne | Fr. O'Neill's | 6-13 | 31 | 5 | 6.20 |
| 7 | Noel McNamara | Kilworth | 0-29 | 29 | 4 | 7.25 |
| 8 | Aaron Sheehan | Mallow | 0-25 | 25 | 3 | 8.33 |
| 9 | Darren McCarthy | Ballymartle | 1-20 | 23 | 3 | 7.66 |
| 9 | Eoghan Keniry | Killeagh | 1-20 | 23 | 4 | 5.75 |

#### In a single game

| Rank | Player | Club | Tally | Total | Opposition |
| 1 | Eoghan Keniry | Killeagh | 1-12 | 15 | Kilworth |
| 2 | Declan Dalton | Fr. O'Neill's | 2-08 | 14 | Ballymartle |
| 2 | Darragh Fitzgibbon | Charleville | 1-11 | 14 | Fermoy |
| 3 | Billy Dunne | Fr. O'Neill's | 3-04 | 13 | Ballymartle |
| 3 | Declan Dalton | Fr. O'Neill's | 1-10 | 13 | Bride Rovers |
| 4 | Cian Healy | Newcestown | 1-09 | 12 | Killeagh |
| 4 | Cian Healy | Newcestown | 0-12 | 12 | Kanturk |
| 4 | Aaron Sheehan | Mallow | 0-12 | 12 | Bandon |
| 5 | William Finnegan | Bride Rovers | 0-11 | 11 | Ballymartle |
| 5 | Darragh Fitzgibbon | Charleville | 0-11 | 11 | Mallow |
| 5 | Darragh Fitzgibbon | Charleville | 0-11 | 11 | Kanturk |

### Match records

* Widest winning margin: 20 points
** Fr. O'Neill's 6-19 - 2-11 Ballymartle (Group Stage Round 3)
* Most goals in a match: 8
** Fr. O'Neill's 6-19 - 2-11 Ballymartle (Group Stage Round 3)
* Most points in a match: 44
** Bandon 1-22 - 1-22 Mallow (Group Stage Round 3)
** Cahrleville 2-26 - 3-18 Kanturk (semi-final)
* Most goals by one team in a match: 6
** Fr. O'Neill's 6-19 - 2-11 Ballymartle (Group Stage Round 3)
* Most goals scored by a losing team: 4
** Glen Rovers 4-18 - 4-26 Blackrock (Final)
* Most points scored by a losing team: 20
** Kilworth 2-20 - 3-18 Killeagh (Relegation playoff)

### Miscellaneous

* The relegation play-off match between Killeagh and Kilworth was originally scheduled to take place on 13 September but was postponed after one of the Killeagh players tested positive for COVID-19.