The Glen Rovers–St Finbarr's rivalry is a hurling rivalry between Cork city club teams Glen Rovers and St Finbarr's. It is considered to be one of the biggest rivalries in Cork hurling. Glen Rovers and St Finbarr's first played a senior championship match on 7 October 1934; as of August 2020, the two clubs have faced each other 38 times in total. Glen Rovers have won 21 and St Finbarr's have won 13, with four ending in a draw. Regarded as two of Cork club hurling's "big three", with Blackrock making up the trio, a county final between The Glen and the Barr's is historically regarded as a special occasion. History Formation to 1934 Just four miles apart and geographically divided by the broad span of the River Lee, the Glen Rovers–St Finbarr's rivalry is essentially a northside-southside one. Formed as St Finbarr's National Hurling & Football Club in Togher in 1876, the club had been active and competitive in the years before the establishment of the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1884. They entered a team in the inaugural Cork County Championship in 1887 and claimed their first title in 1899. St Finbarr's, along with their great rivals from the early years of the championship Blackrock, are the only two teams that have never been relegated or faced regrading from senior level. Glen Rovers was established in 1916 after five Blackpool-based members of the Brian Dillons club broke away over the failure to present winners' medals to the players after claiming the Cork Minor Championship in 1915. A decade after their formation, Glen Rovers joined the senior ranks after back-to-back promotions from the County Junior Championship in 1924 and the County Intermediate Championship in 1925. The first recorded meeting of the Glen Rovers and St Finbarr's senior teams was in the Bride Valley Gold Medal Tournament on 20 March 1927. St Finbarr's trailed by four goals to two at half time but came back in the second half to win by 6-02 to 5-01. The Association was in its golden jubilee year when Glen Rovers and St Finbarr's had their first ever senior championship meeting in the 1934 final. At that stage St Finbarr's had won ten championship titles, were in second position on the all-time roll of honour, were the reigning champions and were attempting to claim a third successive title for the first time in over 25 years.