2020 Cork Premier Senior Football Championship

The 2020 Cork Premier Senior Football Championship was the inaugural staging of the Cork Premier Senior Football Championship and the 132nd staging overall of a championship for the top-ranking Gaelic football teams in Cork. The draw for the group stage placings took place on 19 November 2019. The championship was scheduled to begin in April 2020, however, it was postponed indefinitely due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Gaelic games. The championship eventually began on 24 July 2020 and, after being suspended once again on 5 October 2020, and eventually ended on 29 August 2021.
Nemo Rangers were the [2019 Cork (city)|Cork Senior Football Championship|defending champions].
The final was played on 29 August 2021 at Páirc Uí Chaoimh in Cork, between Castlehaven and Nemo Rangers, in what was their third final meeting and their first in six years. Nemo Rangers won the match by 3-07 to 0-13 to claim their 22nd championship title overall and a second title in succession.
Steven Sherlock from the St. Finbarr's club was the championship's top scorer with 3-36.

Format change

On 26 March 2019, three championship proposals were circulated to Cork club delegates. A core element running through all three proposals, put together by the Cork GAA games workgroup, was that there be a group stage of 12 teams, straight relegation, and one team from the divisions/colleges section to enter at the preliminary quarter-final stage. On 2 April 2019, a majority of 136 club delegates voted for Option A which would see one round of games played in April and two more in August – all with county players available.

Participating teams

Clubs

The club rankings were based on a championship performance 'points' system over the previous four seasons.

Team	Location	Colours	Seeding	Ranking
Nemo Rangers	Trabeg	Black and green	A	1
St. Finbarr's	Togher	Blue and gold	A	2
Carbery Rangers	Rosscarbery	Green, white and gold	A	3
Ballincollig	Ballincollig	Red, white and black	B	4
Castlehaven	Castlehaven	Blue and white	B	5
Valley Rovers	Innishannon	Green and white	B	6
Douglas	Douglas	Black, white and green	C	7
Newcestown	Newcestown	Red and yellow	C	8
Clonakilty	Clonakilty	Red and green	C	9
Ilen Rovers	Church Cross	Green and white	D	10
Bishopstown	Bishopstown	Maroon and white	D	11
Carrigaline	Carrigaline	Blue and yellow	D	12

Divisions and colleges

Team	Location	Colours
Beara	Beara Peninsula	Red and white
Carbery	West Cork	Purple and yellow
Duhallow	Duhallow	Red and white
University College Cork	College Road	Red and black

Championship statistics

Top scorers

;Overall

Rank	Player	Club	Tally	Total	Matches	Average
1	Steven Sherlock	St. Finbarr's	3-36	45	5	9.00
2	Luke Connolly	Nemo Rangers	7-22	43	6	7.16
3	Cian Dorgan	Ballincollig	1-23	26	4	6.50
4	Brian Hurley	Castlehaven	0-25	25	5	5.00
5	Dara Ó Sé	Clonakilty	1-20	23	3	7.66
6	Fiachra Lynch	Valley Rovers	0-22	22	4	5.50
7	Mark Collins	Castlehaven	2-15	21	5	4.20
8	Cillian Myers-Murray	St. Finbarr's	1-16	19	5	3.80
9	Mark Cronin	Nemo Rangers	2-12	18	5	3.60
10	Seán O'Donovan	Ilen Rovers	0-14	14	4	3.50

;In a single game

Rank	Player	Club	Tally	Total	Opposition
1	Steven Sherlock	St. Finbarr's	1-11	14	Carrigaline
2	Luke Connolly	Nemo Rangers	3-03	12	Ballincollig
2	Steven Sherlock	St. Finbarr's	1-09	12	Castlehaven
4	Cian Dorgan	Ballincollig	1-07	10	Clonakilty
4	Steven Sherlock	St. Finbarr's	1-07	10	Clonakilty
6	Luke Connolly	Nemo Rangers	2-03	9	Valley Rovers
6	Mark Collins	Castlehaven	2-03	9	Ilen Rovers
6	Dara Ó Sé	Clonakilty	1-06	9	Ballincollig
9	Dara Ó Sé	Clonakilty	0-08	8	Carrigaline
9	James McEntee	UCC	0-08	8	Carbery
9	Luke Connolly	Nemo Rangers	0-08	8	Bishopstown
9	Brian Hurley	Castlehaven	0-08	8	Nemo Rangers

Miscellaneous

The quarter-final between Ballincollig and Nemo Rangers was postponed after it emerged that a Ballincollig player had tested positive for Covid-19 and a decision was made to temporarily suspend all club activity for 48 hours as a precautionary measure.