The 2017 Cork Junior A Football Championship was the 119th staging of the

Cork Junior A Football Championship The Cork Junior A Football Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the Co-Op Superstores Cork Junior A Football Championship and abbreviated to the Cork JAFC) is an annual Gaelic football competition organised by the Cork County Board o ...

since its establishment by the Cork County Board. The draw for the 2017 fixtures took place on 11 December 2016. It was the first championship to include beaten divisional finalists. The championship ran from 9 September to 29 October 2017. The

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was played on 29 October 2017 at

Páirc Uí Rinn Páirc Uí Rinn (), also known as Páirc Chríostóir Uí Rinn, is a Gaelic Athletic Association stadium located between Ballinlough and Ballintemple in Cork. It was previously known as Flower Lodge and was used as an association football ...

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, between

Knocknagree Knocknagree (; the hill of the horse stud) is located in the north-west of County Cork in Ireland. Located on the R582 (Ballydesmond to Macroom) regional road it is 5 km north of Rathmore. It is approximately one mile from the Cork-Kerr ...

and Erin's Own, in what was their first ever meeting in the final. Knocknagree won the match by 2–19 to 2–10 to claim their third championship title overall and a first title in 26 years. Knocknagree's Anthony O'Connor was the championship's top scorer with 2-28.

Qualification

Results

First round

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Championship statistics

Top scorers

;Overall ;In a single game

References

{{Cork Junior Football Championship 2017 in Irish sport

Cork Junior Football Championship The Cork Junior A Football Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the Co-Op Superstores Cork Junior A Football Championship and abbreviated to the Cork JAFC) is an annual Gaelic football competition organised by the Cork County Board of ...