Football top scorers: O'Connor is top of the mountain
August 25, 2014
Sheer delight as Mayo's Cillian O'Connor moves in to pole position. INPHO
Cillian O'Connor's haul of 1-8 in the drawn All-Ireland semi-final makes him the man to beat in the race to be the top scoring footballer of championship 2014.
The Mayo man now leads the way by an impressive eight points and crucially is 16 clear of his nearest rival still left in the competition, Kerry's James O'Donoghue (2-18). Both players are averaging eight points per game, with O'Connor playing five matches to the Kerry's ace's three.
O'Donoghue is the top scorer from play with 2-16 excluding placed balls.
Overall Fermanagh's Sean Quigley has the highest average score per game so far with 11.5.
Quigley has four goals to his name, as does Meath's Michael Newman.
The highest individual game tally so far belongs to Quigley (2-8 v Laois).
Overall - championship football top scorer
Cillian O'Connor, Mayo 3-31 (40) 8.0avg
Shane Walsh, Galway 1-29 (32) 6.4avg
Con Sweeney, Tipperary 4-19 (31) 6.2avg
Conor McManus, Monaghan 1-27 (30) 5.0avg
Tony Kernan, Armagh 0-25 (25) 3.57avg
James O'Donoghue, Kerry 2-18 (24) 8.0avg
Sean Quigley, Fermanagh 3-14 (23) 11.5avg
Donie Kingston, Laois 0-23 (23) 4.6avg
Ross Munnelly, Laois 0-21 (21) 4.2avg
Bernard Brogan, Dublin 2-14 (20) 6.66avg
Michael Newman, Meath 4-8 (20) 6.66avg
Barry Grogan, Tipperary 2-14 (20) 4.0avg
From play - championship football top scorer
James O'Donoghue, Kerry 2-16 (22) 7.33avg
Con Sweeney, Tipperary 3-7 (16) 3.2avg
Shane Walsh, Galway 1-12 (15) 3.0avg
Shane McGrath, Clare 1-12 (15) 3.0avg
Danny Cummins, Galway 2-9 (15) 3.0avg
Conor Laverty, Down 2-8 (14) 3.5avg
