Wikipedia / All-Ireland Intermediate Club Hurling Championship
Wikipedia / All-Ireland Intermediate Club Hurling Championship
The GAA Hurling All-Ireland Intermediate Club Championship (also known as the All-Ireland Intermediate Club Hurling Championship) is an annual Irish hurling competition organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). It is the intermediate-grade All-Ireland championship for clubs, and has been contested every year since the 2004–05 championship.
The All-Ireland series is contested by the four provincial champions from the Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster intermediate club championships. The competition is played on a straight knockout basis.
The most successful county is Kilkenny, with eight titles, while no club has won the championship more than once.
History
While the senior club championship had been running since the 1970–71 season, the creation of an All-Ireland series at intermediate level was a natural progression. The Munster Council were the first to organise a provincial intermediate championship in 2003. They were followed by the other three provincial councils in 2004, with the four champions contesting an All-Ireland series.
Kildangan of Tipperary were the first champions after defeating Carrickshock of Kilkenny.
In 2007, London club Robert Emmetts became the first team from outside Ireland to win an All-Ireland title.
Teams
Qualification
The championship features four teams in the All-Ireland series. County champions (or the relevant intermediate-grade champions, depending on county structures) contest the four provincial intermediate club championships, with the four provincial champions qualifying for the All-Ireland semi-finals.
Prior to 2018 the London champions entered at the quarter-final stage, but later competed through the provincial pathway.
Province | Championship | Qualifying team |
Champions | ||
Champions | ||
Champions | ||
Champions |
List of finals
Year | Winners | Runners-up | Venue | Winning captain | Ref. | |||
County | Club | Score | County | Club | Score | |||
4–20 | 2–24 | Keith Ryan | ||||||
2–15 | 0–18 | Seán Desmond | ||||||
2–23 | 0–13 | Stephen Donnelly | ||||||
1–17 | 1–15 | Lorcan Lyons | ||||||
0–16 | 1–11 | Brian Byrne | ||||||
2020–21 | No championship | |||||||
3–19 | 5–12 | Shane Walsh | ||||||
2–18 | 1–15 | Gearóid McInerney & Niall Burke | ||||||
1–18 | 1–17 | Lorcan O'Neill | ||||||
2–15 | 0–06 | John Tennyson | ||||||
1–17 | 1–14 | Enda Morrissey | ||||||
1–09 | 2–03 | Christopher McGuinness | ||||||
1–16 | 1–09 | Michael Grace | ||||||
1–16 | 0–13 | David Langton | ||||||
1–13 | 1–11 | Karol Lawlor | ||||||
3–15 | 1–20 | Patrick Dwyer | ||||||
3–17 | 0–10 | Eoin Guinan | ||||||
2–14 | 1–12 | James Hughes | ||||||
4–15 | 3–14 | Paddy Dowdall | ||||||
1–14 | 0–08 | Fergus McMahon | ||||||
2–13 | 1–13 | David Carroll | ||||||
2–13 | 1–13 | Gerry Slattery |
Roll of honour
Performances by county
County | Titles | Runners-up | Total finals |
8 | 3 | 11 | |
4 | 4 | 8 | |
2 | 0 | 2 | |
1 | 7 | 8 | |
1 | 2 | 3 | |
1 | 1 | 2 | |
1 | 0 | 1 | |
1 | 0 | 1 | |
1 | 0 | 1 | |
1 | 0 | 1 | |
0 | 2 | 2 | |
0 | 1 | 1 | |
0 | 1 | 1 |
Performances by province
Province | Titles | Runners-up | Total finals |
11 | 3 | 14 | |
7 | 5 | 12 | |
1 | 9 | 10 | |
1 | 2 | 3 | |
1 | 1 | 2 |
See also
References