Chris Óg Jones (born 1998) is an Irish

Gaelic football Gaelic football (; short name '')'', commonly known as simply Gaelic, GAA, or football, is an Irish team sport. A form of football, it is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch. The objective of the sport is to score ...

er who plays at club level with Iveleary and at inter-county level with the

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. He usually lines out as a forward.

Career

Jones first played competitive

with the Iveleary club in

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and, after progressing through the juvenile and underage ranks, he soon joined the club's top adult team. He enjoyed his first major success when the club won the Cork JAFC title in 2020, with Jones ending the campaign as top scorer. This success was followed by claiming the Cork IAFC title in 2021. Jones first appeared on the inter-county scene with the Cork minor football team in 2016 before later linking up with the under-20 side. He was first selected for the

for the pre-season

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competition in 2022 and later earned inclusion on the team's

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panel.

Career statistics

Club

Inter-county

Honours

;Iveleary *

Cork Intermediate A Football Championship The Cork Intermediate A Football Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as McCarthy Insurance Group Cork County Intermediate A Football Championship and abbreviated to the Cork IAFC) is an annual Gaelic football competition organised by the ...

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

Cork Junior A Football Championship The Cork Junior A Football Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the Bon Secours Cork Junior A Football Championship and abbreviated to the Cork JAFC) is an annual Gaelic football competition organised by the Cork GAA, Cork County Board ...

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Mid Cork Junior A Football Championship The Mid Cork Junior A Football Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the Ross Oil Junior A Football Championship) is an annual club Gaelic football competition organised by the Mid Cork Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association and con ...

: 2015, 2018, 2019, 2020

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, Chris Og 1998 births Living people Iveleary Gaelic footballers Muskerry Gaelic footballers Cork inter-county Gaelic footballers