Clare–Cork hurling rivalry
| Locale |
County Clare County Cork |
|---|---|
| Teams |
Clare Cork |
| First meeting | Clare 2-9 - 3-4 Cork 1899 Munster semi-final (13 May 1900) |
| Latest meeting | Cork 1-25 - 1-20 Clare 2017 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final (9 July 2017) |
| Statistics | |
| Meetings total | 54 |
| Most player appearances | Christy Ring (10) |
| Top scorer | Christy Ring (4-41) |
| All-time series | Cork 37-12 Clare (5 draws) |
| Largest victory | Cork 6-8 - 0-2 Clare 1922 Munster quarter-final (22 April 1923) |
The Cork–Clare rivalry is a hurling rivalry between Irish inter-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.
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.
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