The 1980 Cork Senior Football Championship was the 92nd staging of the
Cork Senior Football Championship
The Cork Premier Senior Football Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the Bon Secours Cork Premier Senior Hurling Championship and abbreviated to the Cork PSFC) is an annual club Gaelic football competition organised by the Cork Count ...
since its establishment by the
Cork County Board in
1887
Events
January–March
* January 11 – Louis Pasteur's anti-rabies treatment is defended in the Académie Nationale de Médecine, by Dr. Joseph Grancher.
* January 20
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. The championship began on 5 April 1980 and ended on 14 September 1980.
St. Finbarr's entered the championship as the
defending champions.
On 14 September 1980, St. Finbarr's won the championship following a 3-08 to 1-09 defeat of
University College Cork
University College Cork – National University of Ireland, Cork (UCC) ( ga, Coláiste na hOllscoile Corcaigh) is a constituent university of the National University of Ireland, and located in Cork.
The university was founded in 1845 as one of ...
in the final. This was their sixth championship title overall and their second title in succession.
Jamesie O'Callaghan of the St. Finbarr's club was the championship's top scorer with 7-28.
Team changes
To Championship
Promoted from the
Cork Intermediate Football Championship
The Cork Intermediate A Football Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as Bon Secours Cork County Intermediate A Football Championship and abbreviated to the Cork IAFC) is an annual Gaelic football competition organised by the Cork Count ...
*
Adrigole
Adrigole () is a village on the Beara Peninsula in County Cork, Ireland. It is centred on the junction of the R572 and R574 regional roads. The electoral division in which the village sits has a sparsely distributed population of about 450 pe ...
Results
Division 1
Table
:
Group stage results
Division 2
Table
:
Group stage results
Division 3
Table
:
Group stage results
Division 4
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final
Championship statistics
Top scorers
;Overall
Miscellaneous
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Adrigole
Adrigole () is a village on the Beara Peninsula in County Cork, Ireland. It is centred on the junction of the R572 and R574 regional roads. The electoral division in which the village sits has a sparsely distributed population of about 450 pe ...
withdrew midway through the championship after finding it difficult to field a team.
* The attendance at the final of 4,500 was the smallest since
1972
Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, me ...
.
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St. Finbarr's became the first single entity club to achieve
the double.
References
{{Cork Senior Football Championship
Cork Senior Football Championship
1980 in Gaelic football