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Ahead of another big weekend of All-Ireland senior football championship action, we’re looking at the facts, figures, and form of the teams

Ahead of another big weekend of All-Ireland senior football championship action, we’re looking at the facts, figures, and form of the teams.

ALL-IRELAND CHAMPIONSHIP WEEKEND FIXTURES
SATURDAY 
• Group 1: Cork v Kerry, Pairc Ui Chaoimh, 3.00pm 
• Group 2: Westmeath v Galway, TEG Cusack Park, 5.0; Tyrone v Armagh, Omagh,  7.00pm 
• Group 3: Kildare v Dublin, UPMC Nowlan Park, 5.00pm 

SUNDAY 
• Group 1: Mayo v Louth, Hastings Insurance MacHale Park, 2.00pm • Group 3: Roscommon v Sligo, Dr. Hyde Park, 3.00pm 
• Group 4: Monaghan v Clare, Clones, 2.00pm; Donegal v Derry, Ballybofey, 4.00pm

CORK v KERRY 
Cork beat Louth in the first round; Kerry lost to Mayo.

They meet in the championship for a  seventh successive year, with Kerry having won five of the previous six.

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They won last  year’s Munster final by twelve points. Their only defeat was in the 2020 Munster semi final. Prior to that Cork hadn’t beaten Kerry since 2012.

It leaves Kerry leading 9-1 from  their last ten championship meetings with Cork. 

CHAMPIONSHIP 2023 
CORK 
• Clare 0-14 Cork 0-13 (Munster quarter-final) 

• Cork 1-19 Louth 1-17 (All-Ireland Group 1) 

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Top Scorers 
1. Steven Sherlock….0-11 (0-7 frees, 0-1 ‘45’) 

2. Brian Hurley………. 0-8 (0-6 frees) 

3. Brian O’Driscoll…….1-1 

KERRY
• Kerry 0-25 Tipperary 0-5 (Munster quarter-final) 

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• Kerry 5-14 Clare 0-15 (Munster final) 

• Mayo 1-19 Kerry 0-17 (All-Ireland Group 1) 

Top Scorers 
1. David Clifford……2-16 (0-9 frees) 

2. Tony Brosnan……1-6 

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3. Sean O’Shea………0-12 (0-5 frees, 0-3 ‘45s’) 

LAST FIVE CHAMPIONSHIP MEETINGS 
• 2022: Kerry 0-23 Cork 0-11 (Munster semi-final) 
• 2021: Kerry 4-22 Cork 1-9 (Munster final) 
• 2020: Cork 1-12 Kerry 0-13 aet (Munster semi-final) 
• 2019: Kerry 1-19 Cork 3-10 (Munster final) 
• 2018: Kerry 3-18 Cork 2-4 (Munster final)

Cork v Kerry has been by far the busiest championship rivalry in football since 2000.  They have met 33 times with Kerry winning 21 to Cork’s six while there were six draws. 

Cork’s win over Kerry in 2020 was their first over their great rivals in the championship  since 2012.

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It ended the longest barren spell against Kerry since going from 1974 to  1983 without a win. 

Kerry beat Cork by twelve points in last year’s Munster championship and by 22 points  a year earlier. 

Jack O’Connor has led Kerry against Cork in thirteen championship clashes. Results  were as follows: Kerry wins 8; Cork wins 3; Draws 2. 

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