Munster Hurling Cup

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Munster Hurling Cup
Current season or competition:
2022 Munster Hurling Cup
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IrishSraith Shinsir Iomána na Mumhan
CodeHurling
Founded2016; 6 years ago (2016)
RegionMunster (GAA)
TrophyMunster Senior League Trophy
No. of teams5 (2022)
Title holdersColours of Limerick.svg Limerick (3rd title)
Most titlesColours of Limerick.svg Limerick (3 titles)
SponsorsCo-Op Superstores
Official websiteOfficial website

The Munster Hurling Cup, formerly the Munster Senior Hurling League is an annual hurling competition organised by the Munster Council of the Gaelic Athletic Association since 2016 for the top inter-county teams in the province of Munster in Ireland.

The series of games are played during January. The Munster Senior Hurling League is effectively a pre-season tournament. It allows teams to blood new players and to experiment prior to the opening of the National Hurling League.

2019 was the first year that all six eligible teams participated in the Munster Senior Hurling League. Participation or non-participation can be decided on an annual basis.[1] Limerick are the current champions.

For 2022, the tournament was renamed the "Munster Hurling Cup" as it was no longer run as a league.

Format[]

In the tournament's first three years, each team played all the others once in a single round-robin system (of 4 or 5 county teams), with the top two teams progressing to the final. In 2019 and 2020, all six counties competed, and they were drawn into two separate groups, with the two group winners meeting in the final.

In 2022 the competition was a straight knockout, with 5 teams.

Stadia[]

Location Stadium Capacity
Limerick Gaelic Grounds 44,023
Killarney Fitzgerald Stadium 38,000
Ennis Cusack Park 19,000
Dungarvan Fraher Field 15,000
Tralee Austin Stack Park 12,000
Waterford Walsh Park 11,046
Mallow Mallow GAA Complex 8,000
Sixmilebridge O'Garney Park 7,000
Kilmallock FitzGerald Park 4,000
Nenagh MacDonagh Park

As of the 2022 season, Munster League hurling has been played in eleven stadiums since the formation of the league in 2016.

While the traditional county grounds are sometimes used for league matches, smaller club grounds have usually been used for games which may not have had such a high profile.

Munster League matches are usually played on a rolling home and away basis.

The stadiums for the 2017 league showed a large disparity in capacity: Gaelic Grounds, the home ground of Limerick has a capacity of 50,500 with O'Garney Park, one of the grounds used by Clare, having a capacity of 7,000. The combined total capacity of the Munster League in the 2017 season was 111,000.

Stadium attendances are a significant source of regular income for the Munster Council and the individual county boards.

Roll of honour[]

Wins by county[]

Team Wins Years won
Colours of Limerick.svg Limerick 3 2018, 2020, 2022
Colours of Clare.svg Clare 2 2016, 2019
Colours of Cork.svg Cork 1 2017

Tournament not held in 2021.

List of finals[]

Year Winners Score Runners-up Score Venue Winning Captain(s) Winning Team Attendance
2016 Clare 0-18 Limerick 0-17 Gaelic Grounds Cian Dillon
Tony Kelly 		A Fahy; J Browne, P O’Connor, P Flanagan; C Dillon, D McInerney, C Cleary; G O’Connell, D Reidy; P Duggan, C Ryan, D Fitzgerald; J Conlon, D Honan, B Duggan.
Subs: T Kelly, B Bolger, S Golden, C O’Connell. 		4,583[2]
2017 Cork 1-21 Limerick 1-20 Gaelic Grounds Stephen McDonnell A Nash, S McDonnell, C Spillane, D Cahalane, M Ellis, C Joyce, M Coleman, L McLoughlin, D Kearney, C Lehane, L Meade, S Kingston, A Cadogan, P Horgan, D Fitzgibbon.
Subs: D Griffin, K Burke, D Brosnan, S Harnedy, C O’Sullivan. 		2,372[3]
2018 Limerick 0-16 Clare 0-10 Gaelic Grounds Paul Browne
Declan Hannon 		N Quaid; T Condon, S Hickey, R English; D Byrnes, D Morrissey, W O’Meara; P Browne, C Lynch; T Morrissey, D O’Donovan, B O’Connell; A Gillane, S Flanagan, G Hegarty.
Subs: B Murphy, D Reidy, A La Touche Cosgrave 		3,209[4]
2019 Clare 4-19 Tipperary 1-18 Gaelic Grounds Tony Kelly D Tuohy; J McCarthy, D McInerney, R Hayes; A McCarthy, C Cleary, C Malone; S Golden, R Taylor; D Ryan, T Kelly N Deasy; C Guilfoyle, C McInerney, M O’Neill.
Subs: P Collins, D Conroy, M O’Malley, G Cooney, J Browne. 		4,531[5][6]
2020 Limerick 1-32 Cork 0-20 Gaelic Grounds Cian Lynch Barry Hennessey; Tom Condon, Richie English, Aaron Costello; Diarmuid Byrnes, Dan Morrissey, Barry Nash; Robbie Hanley, Cian Lynch (capt); Darragh O’Donovan, Tom Morrissey, David Dempsey; Graeme Mulcahy, David Reidy, Aaron Gillane
Subs: Sean Finn, Gearoid Hegarty, Mark Quinlan, Brian O’Grady, Jerome Boylan 		5,295[7]
2022 Limerick 0-27 Clare 0-18 Cusack Park, Ennis Barry Nash David McCarthy; Barry Nash, Dan Morrissey, Richie English; Colin Coughlan, Ronan Connolly, Paddy O’Loughlin; William O’Donoghue, Brian O’Grady; David Reidy, Cathal O’Neill, Gearoid Hegarty; Darren O’Connell, Pat Ryan, Oisin O’Reilly.
Subs: Adam English, Rory Duff, Conor Boylan 		7,992[8]

Top scorers[]

All time[]

As of the 2019 league
Pos. Name Team Goals Points Total
1 Shane Nolan Kerry 0 55 55
2 David Reidy Limerick 4 28 40
3 Stephen Bennett Waterford 3 30 39
4 Patrick Horgan Cork 2 28 34
Aaron Gillane Limerick 2 28 34
5 Declan Dalton Cork 0 33 33
6 Barry Nash Limerick 5 15 30
7 David Reidy Clare 2 23 29
Niall Deasy Clare 1 26 29
8 Declan Hannon Limerick 1 23 26
Pádraig Boyle Kerry 1 23 26

Overall[]

year Name Team Goals Points Total
2016 Declan Hannon Limerick 1 21 24
2017 Patrick Horgan Cork 2 27 33
2018 Aaron Gillane Limerick 1 21 24
2019 Stephen Bennett Waterford 2 25 31

Single game[]

year Name Team Goals Points Total
2016 Declan Hannon Limerick 1 9 12
2017 Pauric Mahony Waterford 0 14 14
2018 Pádraig Boyle Kerry 1 10 13
2019 Stephen Bennett Waterford 2 12 18

Finals[]

year Name Team Goals Points Total
2016 Declan Hannon Limerick 0 7 7
2017 Peter Casey Limerick 0 9 9
Patrick Horgan Cork 0 9 9
2018 Aaron Gillane Limerick 0 8 8
2019 Tony Kelly Clare 2 3 9
Séamus Callanan Tipperary 0 9 9

References[]

  1. ^ "Colleges excluded from Munster pre-season competitions". Hogan Stand. 4 December 2015. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
  2. ^ "Clare take Munster SHL title after tight tussle with Limerick". Irish Times. 23 January 2016. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
  3. ^ "First trophy of season goes to Cork". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
  4. ^ "Limerick lift Munster Hurling League with final win over Clare".
  5. ^ "Tony Kelly in top form as Clare topple Tipp to claim title". Irish Times. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
  6. ^ Breheny, Martin (13 January 2019). "Tony Kelly notches 2-3 as Clare land the first silverware of the 2019 hurling season". Irish Independent. Retrieved 13 January 2019.
  7. ^ "Clinical Limerick thump Cork to claim Munster Hurling League title".
  8. ^ "Limerick land more hurling silverware with Munster pre-season win over Clare". the42. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
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