Cork–Down Gaelic football rivalry

Cork-Down

Locale	County Cork County Down
Teams	Cork Down
First meeting	Down 1-13 - 0-11 Cork 1994 All-Ireland semi-final (14 August 1994)
Latest meeting	Cork 2-20 - 0-14 Down 2011 All-Ireland qualifier (23 July 2011)
Statistics
Meetings total	3
Most wins	Cork (2)
Top scorer	Donncha O'Connor (1-12)
All-time series	Cork 2-1 Down
Largest victory	Cork 2-20 - 0-14 Down 2011 All-Ireland qualifier (23 July 2011)

The Cork-Down rivalry is a Gaelic football rivalry between Irish inter-county teams Cork and Down, who first played each other in 1994. The fixture has been an infrequent one in the history of the championship, and therefore the rivalry is not as intense between the two teams.^[1] Cork's home ground is Páirc Uí Chaoimh and Down's home ground is Páirc Esler, however, all of their championship meetings have been held at neutral venues, usually Croke Park.

While Cork have the second highest number of Munster titles and Down are fifth on the roll of honour in Ulster, they have also enjoyed success in the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, having won 12 championship titles between them to date.

References

1. "Cork and Down headline football's big day". Kerry GAA. 14 September 2010. Retrieved 22 March 2016.