Cork–Meath Gaelic football rivalry

The Cork-Meath rivalry is a Gaelic football rivalry between Irish county teams Cork and Meath, who first played each other in 1967. It is considered to be one of the most bitter rivalries in modern Gaelic games. Cork's home ground is Páirc Uí Chaoimh and Meath's home ground is Páirc Tailteann, however, all of their championship meetings have been held at neutral venues, usually Croke Park.

While Cork have the second highest number of Munster titles and Meath are second to Dublin in Leinster, they have also enjoyed success in the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, having won 14 championship titles between them to date.

Statistics

Team All-Ireland Provincial National League TotalCork737852Meath721735Combined14581587

All-time results Legend

Cork winMeath winMatch was a draw

Senior

No. Date Winners Score Runners-up Venue Stage 1. 24 September 1967 Meath 1-09 - 0-09 Cork Croke Park All-Ireland final 2. 20 September 1987 Meath 1-14 - 0-11 Cork Croke Park All-Ireland final 3. 18 September 1988 Meath 0-12 - 1-09 Cork Croke Park All-Ireland final 4. 9 October 1988 Meath 0-13 - 0-12 Cork Croke Park All-Ireland final replay 5. 16 September 1990 Cork 0-11 - 0-09 Meath Croke Park All-Ireland final 6. 26 September 1999 Meath 1-11 - 1-08 Cork Croke Park All-Ireland final 7. 19 August 2007 Cork 1-16 - 0-09 Meath Croke Park All-Ireland semi-final 8. 25 May 2025 Meath 1-13 - 0-12 Cork Páirc Tailteann All-Ireland group stages 9. 23 May 2026 Cork 0-30 - 1-24 Meath Páirc Uí Rinn All-Ireland group stages

Records Top scorers

Team Player Score Total Cork Larry Tompkins 0-26 26 Meath Brian Stafford 0-28 28

References