Clare–Cork hurling rivalry


The Cork–Clare rivalry is a hurling rivalry between Irish county teams Cork and Clare.
While both teams play provincial hurling in the Munster Senior Hurling Championship, they have also enjoyed success in the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, having won 34 championship titles between them to date. They played each other in the 2013 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final on 8 September, the first time that they had met in the final.

Roots

History

While Cork are regarded as one of the "big three" of hurling, with Kilkenny and Tipperary completing the trio, Clare have generally been regarded as one of the minnows of hurling for much of their championship lives. Due to both teams playing in the Munster series, meetings between Cork and Clare have been regular since the beginning of the provincial championship in 1888.
The first great era of the rivalry came between 1927 and 1932, when Cork and Clare played each other on six occasions. While Cork had the bragging rights from the first three games, Clare defeated Cork, who were the reigning All-Ireland champions, in 1930. It was only their third ever defeat of Cork and a first in sixteen years. Cork reasserted their supremacy the following year by defeating Clare and claiming the subsequent All-Ireland crown, however, Clare dumped a depleted Cork team out of the championship in 1932.
The rivalry reached new heights in 1977 and 1978, when the Munster decider on both occasions was contested by Cork and Clare. Clare won the National Hurling League in both 1977 and 1978 and had high hopes of claiming championship honours. The era belonged to Cork, however, as their triumph in both provincial deciders led to the team securing a hat-trick of All-Ireland crowns.
One of the most intense periods in the rivalry occurred between 1993 and 1999. For the first time ever, Clare secured four successive championship victories over Cork. In 1999 Clare, as Munster champions, faced Cork in one of the defining games of the year. In a changing of the guard, a young Cork team triumphed over a Clare team who had won two All-Ireland titles and three Munster titles in the previous three years.

Statistics

All time results

Cork win
Clare win
Drawn game

No.DateWinnersScoreRunners-upVenueCompetition
1.13 May 1900Clare 2-9 - 3-4CorkTipperaryMSHC semi-final
2.26 April 1903Cork 3-10 - 2-6ClareMarkets FieldMSHC final
3.28 June 1903Cork 6-7 - 3-3ClareTipperaryMSHC quarter-final
4.20 September 1914Clare 3-2 - 3-1CorkThurles SportsfieldMSHC final
5.26 September 1915Cork 8-2 - 2-1ClareMarkets FieldMSHC final
6.22 April 1923Cork 6-8 - 0-2ClareMarkets FieldMSHC quarter-final
7.7 August 1927Cork 5-3 - 3-4ClareMarkets FieldMSHC final
8.15 July 1928Cork2-2 - 2-2ClareThurles SportsfieldMSHC final
9.29 July 1928Cork 6-4 - 2-2ClareThurles SportsfieldMSHC final replay
10.6 July 1930Clare 6-6 - 5-6CorkEnnis RoadMSHC semi-final
11.28 June 1931Cork 3-4 - 1-6ClareThurles SportsfieldMSHC quarter-final
12.31 July 1932Clare 5-2 - 4-1CorkThurles SportsfieldMSHC final
13.14 July 1935Cork 8-3 - 2-4ClareGaelic GroundsMSHC quarter-final
14.5 July 1936Clare4-4 - 3-7CorkGaelic GroundsMSHC quarter-final
15.12 July 1936Clare 9-1 - 2-3CorkGaelic GroundsMSHC quarter-final replay
16.7 July 1940Cork 7-6 - 3-5ClareGaelic GroundsMSHC quarter-final
17.9 June 1946Cork 2-9 - 2-1ClareGaelic GroundsMSHC quarter-final
18.15 June 1947Cork 4-9 - 0-4ClareGaelic GroundsMSHC quarter-final
19.1 July 1951Cork 5-7 - 3-5ClareGaelic GroundsMSHC semi-final
20.28 June 1953Cork 2-11 - 4-2ClareGaelic GroundsMSHC semi-final
21.5 June 1955Clare 3-8 - 2-10CorkThurles SportsfieldMSHC semi-final
22.12 May 1957Cork 4-10 - 2-6ClareThurles SportsfieldMSHC quarter-final
23.18 May 1958Cork 5-9 - 3-9ClareThurles SportsfieldMSHC quarter-final
24.21 June 1959Cork 4-15 - 1-3ClareThurles SportsfieldMSHC semi-final
25.12 June 1960Cork 2-12 - 1-11ClareThurles SportsfieldMSHC semi-final
26.26 May 1963Cork 4-15 - 2-11ClareThurles SportsfieldMSHC quarter-final
27.19 June 1966Cork3-8 - 3-8ClareGaelic GroundsMSHC quarter-final
28.3 July 1966Cork 5-11 - 1-7ClareGaelic GroundsMSHC quarter-final replay
29.11 May 1969Cork2-11 - 4-5ClareThurles SportsfieldMSHC quarter-final
30.15 June 1969Cork 3-8 - 1-4ClareThurles SportsfieldMSHC quarter-final replay
31.30 July 1972Cork 6-18 - 2-8ClareSemple StadiumMSHC final
32.29 June 1975Cork 3-14 - 1-9ClareGaelic GroundsMSHC semi-final
33.10 July 1977Cork 4-15 - 4-10ClareSemple StadiumMSHC final
34.30 July 1978Cork 0-13 - 0-11ClareSemple StadiumMSHC final
35.14 June 1981Clare 2-15 2-13CorkSemple StadiumMSHC semi-final
36.20 June 1982Cork 3-19 - 2-6ClareSemple StadiumMSHC semi-final
37.20 July 1986Cork 2-18 - 3-12ClareFitzgerald StadiumMSHC final
38.19 June 1988Cork 3-22 - 2-9ClareSemple StadiumMSHC semi-final
39.13 June 1993Clare 2-7 - 0-10CorkGaelic GroundsMSHC semi-final
40.4 June 1995Clare 2-13 - 3-9CorkGaelic GroundsMSHC semi-final
41.8 June 1997Clare 1-19 - 0-18CorkGaelic GroundsMSHC semi-final
42.21 June 1998Clare 0-21 - 0-13CorkSemple StadiumMSHC semi-final
43.4 July 1999Cork 1-15 - 0-14ClareSemple StadiumMSHC final
44.9 June 2003Cork 1-18 - 0-10ClareSemple StadiumMSHC semi-final
45.14 August 2005Cork 0-16 - 0-15ClareCroke ParkAISHC semi-final
46.28 May 2006Cork 0-20 - 0-14ClareSemple StadiumMSHC semi-final
47.27 May 2007Cork 1-18 - 1-11ClareSemple StadiumMSHC quarter-final
48.27 July 2008Cork 2-19 - 2-17ClareSemple StadiumAISHC quarter-final
49.23 June 2013Cork 0-23 - 0-15ClareGaelic GroundsMSHC semi-final
50.8 September 2013Cork3-16 - 0-25ClareCroke ParkAISHC Final
51.28 September 2013Clare 5-16 - 3-16CorkCroke ParkAISHC Final
52.15 June 2014Cork 2-23 - 2-18ClareSemple StadiumMSHC semi-final
53.11 July 2015Cork 0-20 - 0-17ClareSemple StadiumAll Ireland Qualifiers
54.9 July 2017Cork 1-25 - 1-20ClareSemple StadiumMSHC final