Cork GAA to retain 2020 club championship structure

The 12-team Lower Intermediate Hurling Championship will be abolished at the end of next year

Blackrock’s Michael O'Halloran and Cathal McCormack lift Cork SHC trophy. Picture: INPHO/Ryan Byrne

Cork County Board has decided to stick with the Covid-enforced structural tweak whereby only two club teams progress from each county championship group to the knockout stages of their respective competition.

When the Cork County Board unveiled their new county championship structure ahead of the 2020 season, which included each grade becoming a three-groups-of-four, 12-team championship, it was intended three teams would emerge from each group to the knockout stages.