2019 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship

The 2019 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship was the 132nd staging of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county hurling tournament, since its establishment in 1887. The draw for the 2019 fixtures took place on 11 October 2018. The championship began on 11 May 2019 and concluded on 18 August 2019.

2019 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
Championship details
Dates11 May – 18 August, 2019
Teams12
All-Ireland champions
Winning teamTipperary (28th win)
CaptainSéamus Callanan
ManagerLiam Sheedy
All-Ireland Finalists
Losing teamKilkenny
CaptainT. J. Reid
ManagerBrian Cody
Provincial champions
MunsterLimerick
LeinsterWexford
UlsterNot Played
ConnachtNot Played
Championship statistics
No. matches played14
Goals total34 (2.42 per game)
Points total583 (41.64 per game)
Top Scorer T. J. Reid (5-83)
Player of the Year Séamus Callanan
All-Star TeamSee here
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Limerick were the defending champions.[1]

Carlow returned to the Leinster Championship for the first time since 2016, replacing Offaly who were relegated in 2018.[2][3] Carlow lost all their four games in 2019 and were automatically relegated to the 2020 Joe McDonagh Cup.

Tipperary were the winners, defeating Kilkenny in the final.[4][5]

Competition format

The current All-Ireland hurling championship format featuring five-team groups in both Leinster and Munster and the two Joe McDonagh Cup finalists was introduced in 2018 for an initial three-year period.

All-Ireland championship

In the Leinster and Munster provincial championships, five teams compete in single round-robin matches, home or away. The top two teams in each provincial group contest the provincial final, with the provincial winners advancing to the two All-Ireland semi-finals and the losing provincial finalists advancing to the two quarter-finals.

The third-placed teams in Leinster and Munster compete in All-Ireland preliminary quarter-finals against the two Joe McDonagh Cup finalists with the Joe McDonagh Cup teams having home advantage.

Promotion and relegation in Leinster or Munster championships

If a non-Munster team wins the Joe McDonagh Cup, the bottom team in the Leinster championship is relegated to next year's Joe McDonagh Cup and is replaced in next year's Leinster championship by the Joe McDonagh Cup winners. This arrangement allows teams from Connacht and Ulster to gain promotion to the tier 1 championship.

If a Munster team wins the Joe McDonagh Cup, they playoff against the team that finished bottom in the Munster championship for the right to play in next year's Munster championship, thereby ensuring that only Munster teams compete in the Munster hurling championship.

Teams

A total of twelve teams compete in the championship – five in the Leinster championship, five in the Munster championship, and the two Joe McDonagh Cup finalists who enter at the preliminary quarter-final stage.

Teams and venues

Each team has a nominal home stadium for the round-robin series of the provincial championships.

In the knockout stage, teams from the provincial round-robin series will not have home advantage, if avoidable. The only teams to play knockout games at home are the two Joe McDonagh Cup finalists, who have home advantage in the preliminary quarter-finals. The Munster final was held at a neutral venue which was decided based on the qualifying teams, while the locations of the two quarter-finals were decided based on similar considerations. The Leinster final, and the semi-finals and final of the All-Ireland series are held in the 82,300-capacity Croke Park in Dublin, headquarters of the GAA.

Team Location Stadium Capacity
From the Leinster Championship
Carlow Carlow Netwatch Cullen Park 21,000
Dublin Dublin Parnell Park 13,499
Galway Galway Pearse Stadium 26,197
Kilkenny Kilkenny Nowlan Park 27,800
Wexford Wexford Innovate Wexford Park 25,000
From the Munster Championship
Clare Ennis Cusack Park, Ennis 19,000
Cork Cork Páirc Uí Chaoimh 45,000
Limerick Limerick Gaelic Grounds 49,886
Tipperary Thurles Semple Stadium 53,000
Waterford Waterford Walsh Park 11,046
From the Joe McDonagh Cup
Laois Laois O'Moore Park 18,000
Westmeath Westmeath Cusack Park, Mullingar 11,000

Personnel and colours
Team Colours Captain(s) Manager(s) Most recent success Main
Sponsor
All-Ireland Provincial League
Carlow Diarmuid Byrne
Richard Coady		 Colm Bonnar IT Carlow
Clare Patrick O'Connor Donal Moloney
Gerry O'Connor		 2013 1998 2016 Pat O'Donnell
Cork Séamus Harnedy John Meyler 2005 2018 1998 Chill Insurance
Dublin Seán Moran Mattie Kenny 1938 2013 2011 AIG
Galway David Burke Micheál Donoghue 2017 2018 2017 Supermac's
Kilkenny T. J. Reid Brian Cody 2015 2016 2018 Glanbia
Laois Patrick Purcell Eddie Brennan 1915 1949 MW Hire Group
Limerick Declan Hannon John Kiely 2018 2013 2019 J. P. McManus
Tipperary Séamus Callanan Liam Sheedy 2016 2016 2008 Teneo
Waterford Noel Connors Páraic Fanning 1959 2010 2015 TQS Integration
Westmeath Aonghus Clarke Joe Quaid Renault
Wexford Lee Chin
Matthew O'Hanlon		 Davy Fitzgerald 1996 2004 1972–73 Gain


Summary

Championships
Level on Pyramid Competition Champions Runners Up
Tier 1 2019 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Tipperary Kilkenny
Tier 1 (Leinster) 2019 Leinster Senior Hurling Championship Wexford Kilkenny
Tier 1 (Munster) 2019 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Limerick Tipperary
Tier 2 2019 Joe McDonagh Cup Laois Westmeath
Tier 3 2019 Christy Ring Cup Meath Down
Tier 4 2019 Nicky Rackard Cup Sligo Armagh
Tier 5 2019 Lory Meagher Cup Leitrim Lancashire


Provincial Championships

Leinster Senior Hurling Championship

For official fixtures and results see Leinster Senior Hurling Championship at gaa.ie

Key to colours
     Advance to Leinster final
     Advance to preliminary quarter-finals
     Relegation
Pos Team Pld W D L SF SA Diff Pts
1 Kilkenny42118-855-76185
2 Wexford 41304-842-75155
3 Dublin42117-845-79115
4 Galway 42114-846-7535
5 Carlow (R) 40043-648-96–470

Carlow are relegated to the Joe McDonagh Cup for 2020, because the winners of the 2019 Joe McDonagh Cup were from Leinster (Laois).

30 June 2019
Leinster Final
Wexford 1-23 (26) – (23) 0-23 Kilkenny
(HT: 0-14 - 0-15)
Gls: M Fanning 1.
Pts: L Chin 9 (7f, 1 65), C McDonald 4, R O'Connor 4, D O'Keeffe 2, S Donohoe 1, P Morris 1, L Og McGovern 1, M Fanning 1, J O'Connor 1.
Pts: TJ Reid 12 (7f, 1 65), A Mullen 3, W Walsh 2, C Fennelly 2, A Murphy 1, J Maher 1, E Murphy 1, G Aylward 1.
Croke Park, Dublin
Referee: J Keenan (Wicklow)
Attendance: 51,482

Munster Senior Hurling Championship

For official fixtures and results see Munster Senior Hurling Championship at gaa.ie

Key to colours
     Advance to Munster final
     Advance to preliminary quarter-finals
Pos Team Pld W D L SF SA Diff Pts
1 Tipperary 44008-1011-80428
2 Limerick 42024-922-71274
3 Cork 42026-987-8784
4 Clare 42023-736-89-254
5 Waterford 40042-677-104-520

Waterford did not need to play a relegation-playoff to avoid relegation to the Joe McDonagh Cup for 2020, because the winners of the 2019 Joe McDonagh Cup were from Leinster (Laois).

30 June 2019
14:00
Munster Final
Limerick 2-26 (32) – (20) 2-14 Tipperary
(HT: 1-11 - 1-09)
Gls: P Casey 1, K Hayes 1.
Pts: P Casey 5, T Morrissey 4, A Gillane (3f) 4, G Hegarty 3, D Byrnes (3f) 3, K Hayes 2, G Mulcahy 2, B Nash 1.		 Gls: S Callanan 1, J McGrath 1.
Pts: J Forde 6 (3f), R Maher 2, N McGrath (1f) 1, S Callanan 1, D McCormack 1, J O’Dwyer 1, J Morris 1, J Cahill 1.
LIT Gaelic Grounds, Limerick
Referee: P O'Dwyer (Carlow)
Attendance: 44,052

Joe McDonagh Cup
Main article: 2019 Joe McDonagh Cup

The second ever Joe McDonagh Cup, the second tier of senior inter-county championship hurling, was contested by Antrim, Kerry, Laois, Offaly and Westmeath in 2019. Each team plays the other four teams once in a round-robin format. The top two teams compete in the Joe McDonagh Cup final and also advance to the two All-Ireland preliminary quarter-finals, where they play the teams that finish third in the Leinster and Munster championships.

Promotion to the All-Ireland senior hurling championship
  • If the Joe McDonagh champions from Connacht, Leinster or Ulster they are promoted directly to the Leinster Championship for 2020.
  • If the Joe McDonagh champions are from Munster they compete in a relegation-promotion playoff against the bottom team in the Munster Championship.
Key to colours
     Advance to preliminary quarter-finals
     Relegation to 2020 Christy Ring Cup
Pos Team Pld W D L SF SA Diff Pts
1 Laois (Q)431012-856-83+207
2 Westmeath (Q) 42116-852-78+195
3 Antrim 42027-826-8504
4 Kerry 42023-7411-68-184
5 Offaly (R)40048-6911-81-210

Laois defeated fellow Leinster county Westmeath in the 2019 Joe McDonagh Cup final. Laois were promoted to the 2020 Leinster Championship, while both teams advanced to the All-Ireland preliminary quarter-finals.

All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship

Bracket
Preliminary Quarter-Finals
7 July 2019		 Quarter-Finals
14 July 2019		 Semi-Finals
27/28 July 2019		 All-Ireland Final
18 August 2019
     
             
             
          Limerick 2-17  
          Kilkenny 1-21  
        Kilkenny 2-27  
Westmeath 0-20     Cork 3-18  
Cork 1-40       Kilkenny 0-20
          Tipperary 3-25
             
             
          Wexford 3-20  
          Tipperary 1-28  
        Tipperary 2-25      
Laois 1-22     Laois 1-18      
Dublin 0-23  

All-Ireland preliminary quarter-finals

The third-placed teams in the Leinster and Munster championships play the two teams who competed in the Joe McDonagh Cup Final, with the two Joe McDonagh finalists having home advantage. The Joe McDonagh champions, Laois, face third-placed Leinster team, Dublin, in the first preliminary quarter final, while the runners-up, Westmeath, meet Cork, the third-placed team from Munster, in the other preliminary quarter final.

All-Ireland quarter-finals

The beaten Leinster and Munster finalists play the winners of the two preliminary quarter-finals. If a third-place finisher from a provincial round-robin wins their preliminary quarter-final, they will be kept apart from the team they have already met in the round-robin phase to prevent a repeat fixture. Both games are held at neutral venues.

All-Ireland semi-finals

The Leinster and Munster champions play the winners of the two quarter-finals. The semi-finals take place in Croke Park in the last weekend of July.

All-Ireland final
Main article: 2019 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final
18 August 2019
15:30 IST (UTC+01:00)
All-Ireland Final
Kilkenny 0-20 (20) – (34) 3-25 Tipperary
(HT: 0-11 – 1-09)

Pts: TJ Reid 11 (10f), J Donnelly 3, B Ryan 2, P Walsh 1, R Hogan 1, C Fennelly 1, W Walsh 1		 Gls: S Callanan 1, J O’Dwyer 1, N O’Meara 1
Pts: J Forde 8 (5f, 2 ‘65), J McGrath 3, S Callanan 2 (1f), J O’Dwyer 2, N McGrath 2 (1f), S Kennedy 2, W Connors 2, M Breen 1, G Browne 1, J Morris 1, M Kehoe 1
Croke Park, Dublin
Referee: J Owens (Wexford)
Attendance: 82,300

Championship statistics

Top scorers

Top scorers overall
Rank Player County Tally Total Matches Average
1 T. J. Reid Kilkenny 5-83 98 8 12.25
2 Patrick Horgan Cork 7-62 83 6 13.83
3 Jason Forde Tipperary 2-67 73 8 9.12
4 Aaron Gillane Limerick 3-50 59 6 9.83
5 Lee Chin Wexford 1-51 54 6 9.00
6 Séamus Callanan Tipperary 8-18 42 8 5.25
7 Peter Duggan Clare 0-40 40 4 10.00
8 Marty Kavanagh Carlow 0-33 33 4 8.25
9 Conor McDonald Wexford 3-15 24 6 4.00
John McGrath Tipperary 2-18 24 8 3.00
Stephen Bennett Waterford 1-21 24 4 6.00

Top scorers from open play
Rank Player County Tally Total Minutes Played Match Average
1 Séamus Callanan Tipperary 8-17 41 560 5.13
2 Patrick Horgan Cork 6-16 34 420 5.67
3 John McGrath Tipperary 2-18 24 527 3.19
4 Conor McDonald Wexford 3-13 22 415 3.71
John O'Dwyer Tipperary 1-19 22 446 2.98
6 Alan Cadogan Cork 1-18 21 310 4.74
Jason Forde Tipperary 1-18 21 534 2.75
T. J. Reid Kilkenny 3-12 21 559 2.63
9 Séamus Harnedy Cork 1-17 20 395 3.54
Colin Fennelly Kilkenny 3-11 20 510 2.75

Top scorers in a single game
Rank Player County Tally Total Opposition
1 Patrick Horgan Cork 3-10 19 Kilkenny
2 T. J. Reid Kilkenny 2-12 18 Dublin
3 T. J. Reid Kilkenny 2-11 17 Galway
4 Patrick Horgan Cork 2-09 15 Clare
T. J. Reid Kilkenny 1-12 15 Carlow
Jason Forde Tipperary 1-12 15 Laois
7 Aaron Gillane Limerick 1-11 14 Clare
Patrick Horgan Cork 0-14 14 Tipperary
9 Patrick Horgan Cork 1-10 13 Waterford
Oisín O'Rorke Dublin 0-13 13 Laois
Marty Kavanagh Carlow 0-13 13 Wexford
Aaron Gillane Limerick 0-13 13 Tipperary

Scoring Events

Miscellaneous
  • The Leinster Championship meeting between Carlow and Kilkenny was their first championship meeting since 20 June 1993.
  • On 19 May, Patrick Horgan of Cork became only the fifth player ever to record a cumulative total of 400 points in the championship.
  • Galway's Micheál Donoghue became the first manager to secure three victories over Brian Cody's Kilkenny in the championship.
  • Kilkenny suffered their first home championship defeat at Nowlan Park since 1949.
  • The Munster final between Limerick and Tipperary was their first meeting at this stage of the championship since 2001.
  • Wexford won their first Leinster championship since 2004, and reached the All-Ireland semi-finals for the first time since 2007.
  • The All-Ireland preliminary quarter-final was the first ever championship meeting between Cork and Westmeath.[6]
  • Laois reached the All-Ireland quarter-finals for the first time since 1979.[7]
  • Cork scored forty points in the preliminary quarter-final against Westmeath, a record (they won 1-40 to 0-20). The previous record was 35, scored by Waterford against Offaly in 2017.[8]
  • Patrick Horgan scored a hat-trick for Cork against Kilkenny, but ended on the losing side. The last time this happened was Seamus Callanan in 2015, who scored a hat-trick for Tipperary as they lost to Galway.[9]
  • This is the very first time two teams beaten in their respective provincial finals meet at the Final stage.
  • Tipperary become the first team to win two All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championships by qualifying back into the All-Ireland series through the back door system. The first time they achieved this feat was in 2010.

Live televised games

RTÉ, the national broadcaster in Ireland, will provide the majority of the live television coverage of the hurling championship in the third year of a five-year deal running from 2017 until 2021.[10] Sky Sports will also broadcast a number of matches and will have exclusive rights to some games.

Live Hurling on TV Schedule
Date Fixture &
Match Details		 Broadcaster
Leinster & Munster Championships
11 May Kilkenny v Dublin
Leinster Round 1		 Sky Sports
12 May Waterford v Clare
Munster Round 1		 RTÉ
12 May Cork v Tipperary
Munster Round 1		 RTÉ
19 May Tipperary v Waterford
Munster Round 2		 RTÉ
19 May Limerick v Cork
Munster Round 2		 RTÉ
26 May Galway v Wexford
Leinster Round 3		 RTÉ
2 June Waterford v Limerick
Munster Round 3		 RTÉ
2 June Clare v Tipperary
Munster Round 3		 RTÉ
8 June Cork v Waterford
Munster Round 4		 Sky Sports
9 June Kilkenny v Galway
Leinster Round 4		 RTÉ
9 June Limerick v Clare
Munster Round 4		 RTÉ
15 June Wexford v Kilkenny
Leinster Round 5		 Sky Sports
16 June Tipperary v Limerick
Munster Round 5		 RTÉ
30 June Limerick v Tipperary
Munster Final		 RTÉ
30 June Wexford v Kilkenny
Leinster Final		 RTÉ
All-Ireland Hurling Championship
14 July Kilkenny v Cork
All-Ireland Quarter-Final		 RTÉ
14 July Tipperary v Laois
All-Ireland Quarter-Final		 RTÉ
27 July Limerick v Kilkenny
All-Ireland Semi-Final		 RTÉ
Sky Sports
28 July Wexford v Tipperary
All-Ireland Semi-Final		 RTÉ
Sky Sports
18 August Kilkenny v Tipperary
All-Ireland Final		 RTÉ
Sky Sports

Awards
Sunday Game Team of the Year

The Sunday Game team of the year was picked on 18 August, which was the night of the final. The panel consisting of Brendan Cummins, Cyril Farrell, Jackie Tyrell, Ursula Jacob, Graeme Mulcahy, Derek McGrath and Enda Rowland picked Noel McGrath as the Sunday game player of the year while Kilkenny’s Adrian Mullen was selected as Young Hurler of the Year.[11]

  • 1. Eoin Murphy (Kilkenny)
  • 2. Sean Finn (Limerick)
  • 3. Ronan Maher (Tipperary)
  • 4. Cathal Barrett (Tipperary)
  • 5. Brendan Maher (Tipperary)
  • 6. Padraig Walsh (Kilkenny)
  • 7. Padraic Maher (Tipperary)
  • 8. Diarmuid O’Keeffe (Wexford)
  • 9. Noel McGrath (Tipperary)
  • 10. Lee Chin (Wexford)
  • 11. TJ Reid (Kilkenny)
  • 12. Colin Fennelly (Kilkenny)
  • 13. Aaron Gillane (Limerick)
  • 14. Seamus Callanan (Tipperary)
  • 15. Patrick Horgan (Cork)
All Star Team of the Year

On 1 November, the 2019 PwC All-Stars winners were presented at Dublin's Convention Centre. Séamus Callanan was named as the All Stars Hurler of the Year with Adrian Mullen named the All Stars Young Hurler of the Year.[12][13][14]

Pos.PlayerTeamAppearances
GK Brian HoganTipperary1
RCB Seán FinnLimerick2
FB Ronan MaherTipperary2
LCB Cathal BarrettTipperary2
RWB Brendan MaherTipperary3
CB Pádraig WalshKilkenny2
LWB Pádraic MaherTipperary6
MD Noel McGrathTipperary3
MD Diarmuid O'KeeffeWexford1
RWF Lee ChinWexford1
CF T. J. ReidKilkenny4
LWF Colin FennellyKilkenny2
RCF Aaron GillaneLimerick1
FF Séamus CallananHOTYTipperary4
LCF Patrick HorganCork4

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