# 2022 Cork Premier Senior Football Championship

The 2022 Cork Premier Senior Football Championship was the third staging of the Cork Premier Senior Football Championship and the 134th staging overall of a championship for the top-ranking Gaelic football teams in Cork. The championship ran from 9 June to 30 October 2022.
St. Finbarr's entered the championship as the defending champions. Newcestown's relegation after a playoff defeat by Éire Óg ended 11 years of top tier football for the club.
The final was played on 30 October 2022 at Páirc Uí Chaoimh in Cork, between Nemo Rangers and St. Finbarr's, in what was their third ever meeting in the final overall and a first meeting in five years. Nemo Rangers won the match by 1-16 to 2-09 to claim their 23rd championship title overall and a first title in two years.
Luke Connolly and Brian Hurley were the championship's joint-top scorers.

## Team changes
### To Championship

Promoted from the Cork Senior A Football Championship
* Mallow

### From Championship

Relegated to the Cork Senior A Football Championship
* Ilen Rovers

## Participating teams
### Clubs

The seedings were based on final group stage positions from the 2021 championship.
Top seeds  Second seeds
| Team | Location | Colours | Manager | Captain |
| St. Finbarr's | Togher | Blue and yellow | Paul O'Keeffe | Ian Maguire |
| Clonakilty | Clonakilty | Green and red | Haulie O'Neill | Eoghan Deasy |
| Douglas | Douglas | Green, white and black | Ray Keating | |
| Castlehaven | Castlehaven | Blue and white | James McCarthy | Mark Collins |
| Valley Rovers | Innishannon | Green and white | Mike Murphy | |
| Éire Óg | Ovens | Red and yellow | Turlough O'Brien | Daniel Goulding |
| Nemo Rangers | Trabeg | Black and green | Paul O'Donovan | Luke Connolly |
| Ballincollig | Ballincollig | Green and white | Podsie O'Mahony | Luke Fahy |
| Newcestown | Newcestown | Red and yellow | Tim Buckley | Seán O'Donovan |
| Carbery Rangers | Rosscarbery | Green, white and gold | Declan Hayes | Thomas O'Rourke |
| Carrigaline | Carrigaline | Blue and yellow | | |
| Mallow | Mallow | Red and yellow | Keith Moynihan | Ryan Harkin |

### Divisions and colleges

| Team | Location | Colours | Manager | Captain |
| Avondhu | North Cork | Black and yellow | Martin Crummy | Shane Beston |
| Beara | Beara Peninsula | Red and white | Andrew Fitzgerald | Brian Terry O'Sullivan |
| Carbery | West Cork | Purple and yellow | Tim Buckley | Colm O'Driscoll |
| Duhallow | Duhallow | Orange and black | Ned English | Séamus Hickey |
| Imokilly | East Cork | Red and white | Eoin O'Neill | Mike Kelly |
| MTU Cork | Bishopstown | Red and white | | Paul Ring |
| Muskerry | Mid Cork | Green and white | Ger McCarthy | Joe Creedon |
| University College Cork | College Road | Red and black | Aidan Kelleher | Bill Curtin |

## Group A
### Group A table

Advanced to knockout stage  Advanced to relegation play-off
| Team | Matches | Matches | Matches | Matches | Score | Score | Score | Pts |
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | For | Against | Diff |
| St. Finbarr's | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 62 | 33 | 29 | 6 |
| Carbery Rangers | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 43 | 46 | -3 | 4 |
| Carrigaline | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 41 | 57 | -16 | 2 |
| Éire Óg | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 37 | 47 | -10 | 0 |

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

Advanced to knockout stage
| Team | Matches | Matches | Matches | Matches | Score | Score | Score | Pts |
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | For | Against | Diff |
| Mallow | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 43 | 30 | 13 | 4 |
| Ballincollig | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 48 | 42 | 6 | 3 |
| Douglas | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 42 | 42 | 0 | 3 |
| Valley Rovers | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 33 | 52 | -19 | 2 |

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

Advanced to knockout stage  Advanced to relegation play-off
| Team | Matches | Matches | Matches | Matches | Score | Score | Score | Pts |
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | For | Against | Diff |
| Nemo Rangers | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 46 | 34 | 12 | 6 |
| Castlehaven | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 50 | 42 | 8 | 4 |
| Clonakilty | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 27 | 30 | -3 | 1 |
| Newcestown | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 32 | 49 | -17 | 1 |

### Group C results
## Divisional/colleges section
### Semi-finals

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

### Final
## Knockout stage
### Bracket

| Quarter-Finals | Quarter-Finals | Semi-Finals | Semi-Finals | Final | Final |
| Mallow (Avondhu) | 0-13 | | | | |
| Castlehaven (Carbery) | 2-14 | | | | |
| Castlehaven (Carbery) | 2-14 | St. Finbarr's (Seandun) | 2-17 | | |
| | | Castlehaven (Carbery) | 1-16 | | |
| | | | | St. Finbarr's (Seandun) | 2-09 |
| | | | | Nemo Rangers (Seandun) | 1-16 |
| Nemo Rangers (Seandun) | 2-04 | | | | | Nemo Rangers (Seandun) | 1-16 |
| Carbery Rangers (Carbery) | 0-09 | | | | |
| Carbery Rangers (Carbery) | 0-09 | Nemo Rangers (Seandun) | 1-16 | | |
| | | Ballincollig (Muskerry) | 0-09 | | |
| Ballincollig (Muskerry) | 4-11 | Ballincollig (Muskerry) | 0-09 | | |
| Carbery | 1-15 | | | | |

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

| Rank | Player | Club | Tally | Total | Matches | Average |
| 1 | Luke Connolly | Nemo Rangers | 4-24 | 36 | 6 | 6.60 |
| 1 | Brian Hurley | Castlehaven | 1-33 | 36 | 5 | 7.20 |
| 3 | Brian O'Driscoll | Carbery | 1-27 | 30 | 5 | 6.00 |
| 4 | Ruairí Deane | Carbery | 3-18 | 27 | 6 | 4.50 |
| 5 | Cillian Myers-Murray | St. Finbarr's | 1-22 | 25 | 5 | 5.00 |
| 6 | Daniel Goulding | Éire Óg | 0-24 | 24 | 4 | 6.00 |
| 7 | Darren Murphy | Ballincollig | 3-14 | 23 | 5 | 4.60 |
| 7 | Cian Dorgan | Ballincollig | 2-17 | 23 | 4 | 5.75 |
| 9 | Brian Hayes | St. Finbarr's | 4-09 | 21 | 5 | 4.20 |
| 9 | Steven Sherlock | St. Finbarr's | 1-18 | 21 | 5 | 4.20 |

#### In a single game

| Rank | Player | Club | Tally | Total | Opposition |
| 1 | Brian O'Driscoll | Carbery | 1-09 | 12 | UCC |
| 2 | Cian Dorgan | Ballincollig | 2-04 | 10 | Carbery |
| 2 | Luke Connolly | Nemo Rangers | 2-04 | 10 | Castlehaven |
| 2 | Ruairí Deane | Carbery | 1-07 | 10 | Beara |
| 2 | Cillian Myers-Murray | St. Finbarr's | 0-10 | 10 | Carrigaline |
| 6 | Brian Hayes | St. Finbarr's | 2-03 | 9 | Carrigaline |
| 6 | Darren Murphy | Ballincollig | 2-03 | 10 | Carbery |
| 6 | Steven Sherlock | St. Finbarr's | 1-06 | 9 | Castlehaven |
| 6 | Dylan Geaney | UCC | 1-06 | 9 | Carbery |
| 6 | Luke Connolly | Nemo Rangers | 1-06 | 9 | Ballincollig |
| 6 | Brian Hurley | Castlehaven | 0-09 | 9 | Nemo Rangers |