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Cork Athletic F.C.

football club

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ4896658 ↗
Source-derived summary

Cork Athletic Football Club was an Irish football club based in Cork.

History

The club played in the League of Ireland between 1948 and 1957. It was the successor club of Cork United; when United quit the league in October 1948, Cork Athletic was immediately formed to take its place.

Athletic won the league in 1950 and only lost the cup final against Transport after two replays. The following year it won a league and FAI Cup double after beating Shelbourne in a replay to win the cup. In 1953 Athletic won the first all-Cork FAI Cup final, beating Evergreen United 2–1. Athletic also began the Cork tradition of fielding veteran English League players by recruiting Sunderland legend Raich Carter.

The club eventually folded in 1957, due to financial problems. It was replaced in the League by Cork Hibernians.

Colours

The club wore green shirts, inherited from the predecessor club, with white shorts and green socks.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Cork Athletic F.C.” as football club. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1948, 1957, 1950, 1953—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1948. The account is most persuasive where Cork, Athletic and football can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as football club. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4896658. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1948, 1957, 1950 and 1953.

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This entry incorporates text from “Cork Athletic F.C.” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.