The 2017 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship was the 130th staging of the

All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship The GAA Hurling All-Ireland Senior Championship, known simply as the All-Ireland Championship, is an annual inter-county hurling competition organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). It is the highest inter-county hurling competition i ...

since its establishment by the

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in 1887. The championship began on 23 April 2017 and ended on 3 September 2017. The draw for the championship was held on 13 October 2016 and was broadcast live on

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, the 2016 champions, were defeated by

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in the All-Ireland semi-final. Meath fielded a team in the championship for the first time since 2004. On 3 September 2017 Galway won the championship following a 0–26 to 2–17 defeat of

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in the All-Ireland final. This was their fifth All-Ireland title and their first in 29 championship seasons.

Format

The All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship was a double-elimination tournament based on the

Leinster Leinster ( ; ga, Laighin or ) is one of the provinces of Ireland, situated in the southeast and east of Ireland. The province comprises the ancient Kingdoms of Meath, Leinster and Osraige. Following the 12th-century Norman invasion of Ir ...

and

Munster Munster ( gle, an Mhumhain or ) is one of the provinces of Ireland, in the south of Ireland. In early Ireland, the Kingdom of Munster was one of the kingdoms of Gaelic Ireland ruled by a "king of over-kings" ( ga, rí ruirech). Following the ...

provincial championships and the Christy Ring Cup. Fifteen teams took part. The 2017 championship was the last to feature mostly knock-out Leinster and Munster championships. On 30 September 2017, the Special Congress held at Croke Park voted by 62% to restructure the Leinster and Munster championships as two provincial groups of five teams who compete on a round-robin basis.

Provincial championships

Connacht Senior Hurling Championship This competition is no longer organised. Galway represents Connacht and participates in the Leinster Championship. The other Connacht teams can compete in the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship (tier 1) by gaining promotion through the tiers of hurling – the Christy Ring Cup (tier 2), the Nicky Rackard Cup (tier 3) and the Lory Meagher Cup (tier 4). Leinster Senior Hurling Championship Nine counties compete - seven from Leinster plus Galway and Kerry. Last year's Leinster champions received a bye in the semi-final. The championship begins with a qualifier group involving the four weakest teams. The group winners and runners-up join four of the five strongest teams in the three Leinster quarter finals as the competition continues in a knock-out format. Two semi-finals and a final follow. Last year's Leinster champions receive a bye into the semi-finals. The remaining six teams (four seeded teams plus the qualifier group winners and runners-up) play in three quarter-finals. An informal system of promotion or relegation operates in this round; if a team from the qualifier group wins their quarter-final, they will be seeded in next year's Leinster championship and the beaten seeded team will compete in next year's Leinster qualifier In 2017 the bottom team in the Leinster qualifier group will be relegated to next year's Christy Ring Cup (2nd tier). Their place in next year's Leinster qualifier group will be taken by the winner of 2017's Christy Ring Cup. Meath qualified for this year's Leinster Championship by winning the

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. Munster Senior Hurling Championship Five of the six Munster counties compete. Kerry participates in The Leinster Hurling Championship (see above). The competition has a knock-out format. All of the beaten teams enter the All-Ireland qualifiers. Ulster Senior Hurling Championship Although this competition takes place, it is not part of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship. Currently no Ulster teams qualify to play in this year's Leinster championship which means that winning the Christy Ring cup is their only route into this year's All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship.

Qualifiers Format

A total of nine teams enter the qualifiers – five of the seven teams eliminated in Leinster before the final (three losing quarter-finalists and two losing semi-finalists), all three teams knocked-out in Munster before the final and the winners of 2017's Christy Ring Cup. The fixtures are decided by draws which are detailed in the sections below. All qualifier matches are knock-out and eventually result in two teams who progress to the two All-Ireland quarter-finals.

Qualifiers Preliminary round

The GAA congress held in Feb 2017 voted to allow the winners of the 2017 Christy Ring cup to enter the 2017 qualifiers in a new preliminary round. The Christy Ring cup winners play the losers of one of the three Leinster quarter finals.

Qualifiers Round 1 Format

After the qualifiers preliminary round, the eight remaining qualifier teams play in four matches. A draw is made such that the three Munster teams are paired with three teams beaten in the Leinster championship. Teams who have already met in the Leinster championship cannot be drawn to meet again if such a pairing can be avoided. The draw was made on the morning of the 26 June.

Qualifiers Round 2 Format

The four winners of round 1 play in two matches. Teams who have already met in the Leinster or Munster championships cannot be drawn to meet again if such a pairing can be avoided.

All-Ireland Format

The beaten finalists in the Leinster and Munster championships play the two winning teams from round two of the qualifiers in the two All-Ireland quarter-finals. In the semi-finals, the Leinster and Munster champions play the winners of the two quarter finals. The final normally takes place on the first Sunday in September.

Team changes

To Championship

Promoted from the

Christy Ring Cup The Christy Ring Cup () is an annual hurling competition organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association. Originally introduced as a second-tier competition, it is currently the third tier overall in the inter-county hurling championship system. Eac ...

* Meath

From Championship

Relegated to the

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Note: 2017 Christy Ring Cup winners (Carlow) entered All-Ireland qualifiers.

Teams

General information

Fifteen counties will compete in the

: nine teams in the

Leinster Senior Hurling Championship The Leinster GAA Hurling Senior Championship, known simply as the Leinster Championship, is an annual inter-county hurling competition organised by the Leinster Council of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). It is the highest inter-county hurl ...

, five teams in the

Munster Senior Hurling Championship The Munster GAA Hurling Senior Championship, known simply as the Munster Championship, is an annual Inter county, inter-county hurling competition organised by the Munster GAA, Munster Council of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). It is the h ...

and one team in the

Personnel and kits

Summary

Championships

Provincial championships

Leinster Senior Hurling Championship

Group Stage

Leinster Knockout Stage

Matches

---- ---- Leinster Quarter-finals

Leinster Semi-finals

Last year's Leinster champions receive a bye into the semi-finals. They are joined by the winners of the three quarter-finals.

Leinster final

Munster Senior Hurling Championship

Munster Quarter-final

Munster Semi-finals

Munster final

Ulster Senior Hurling Championship

Ulster Semi-finals

Ulster final

All-Ireland Qualifiers

Qualifiers preliminary round

Match

Qualifiers Round 1

Matches

Qualifiers Round 2

Matches

All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship

Bracket

All-Ireland Quarter-finals

All-Ireland Semi-finals

All-Ireland final

Championship Statistics

Top scorer overall

Top scorer in a single game

Clean sheets

Scoring events

Widest winning margin: 24 points * Colours of Waterford

1-35 – 0-14 Colours of Offaly

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(Qualifier Round 1) Most goals in a match: 7 * Colours of Tipperary

6-26 – 1-19 Colours of Dublin

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(Qualifier Round 2) Most points in a match: 53 * Colours of Cork

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2-27 – 1-26 Colours of Tipperary

(Munster quarter-final) Most goals by one team in a match: 6 * Colours of Tipperary

6-26 – 1-19 Colours of Dublin

(Qualifier Round 2) Highest aggregate score: 66 * Colours of Tipperary

6-26 – 1-19 Colours of Dublin

(Qualifier Round 2) Lowest aggregate score: 37 * Colours of Kilkenny

Kilkenny Kilkenny (). is a city in County Kilkenny, Ireland. It is located in the South-East Region and in the province of Leinster. It is built on both banks of the River Nore. The 2016 census gave the total population of Kilkenny as 26,512. Kilken ...

0-20 – 0-17 Colours of Limerick

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(Qualifier Round 1) Most goals scored by a losing team: 3 * Colours of Wexford

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1-20 – 3-11 Colours of Kilkenny

(Leinster semi-final) * Colours of Tipperary

0-28 – 3-16 Colours of Clare

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(All-Ireland quarter-final)

Miscellaneous

won their first All-Ireland since

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. * It was the first meeting of

and

in an

All-Ireland Hurling Final The All-Ireland Hurling Final (''Cluiche Ceannais Iomána na hÉireann'') is the ultimate match played in the annual All-Ireland Hurling Championships (senior, minor and under-21 levels). The All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final was lis ...

. *

defeated

in the Leinster Championship for the first time since

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. *

set a championship record by scoring 35 points against

in their All-Ireland qualifier meeting. * First time championship meetings: **

v Westmeath (Qualifiers round 1) *

played

in their first ever Leinster final meeting. The game set a new attendance record of 60,032 who saw Galway win their second Leinster senior championship. *

defeated

in the championship for the first time since 1959. *This was the first year Meath competed in the championship since 2004. * In the Munster final,

Patrick Horgan Patrick Horgan (born 5 May 1988) is an Irish hurler who plays for Cork Senior Championship club Glen Rovers and at inter-county level with the Cork senior hurling team. He usually lines out as a forward. Playing career Glen Rovers Minor and ...

scored 0–13 to overtake Christy Ring's total of 33–205 to become Cork's top scorer of all time. *The first final since

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not to involve one of the "Big Three" counties (

and

). *

defeated

for the very first time in the senior hurling championship. * A peak audience of 1.1 million watched Galway beat Waterford in the hurling final on RTÉ, making it the most watched programme on RTÉ in 2017 at the time. * For the first time in championship history, no county from

reached the All-Ireland semi-final stage, with the four spots going to Cork, Galway, Tipperary and Waterford. (

currently play in the Leinster Championship but are geographically in

Connacht Connacht ( ; ga, Connachta or ), is one of the provinces of Ireland, in the west of Ireland. Until the ninth century it consisted of several independent major Gaelic kingdoms (Uí Fiachrach, Uí Briúin, Uí Maine, Conmhaícne, and Delbhn ...

.) *

were eliminated in the qualifiers for the first time.

Broadcast Rights

Matches will be broadcast live on television in Ireland on

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and

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under a new five-year contract that was agreed in December 2016. In the

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, matches will be shown on Sky Sports and worldwide coverage will be provided on

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. RTÉ Radio 1 will also have full radio rights to all championship games which were previously shared with Newstalk. RTÉ coverage will be shown on

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on ''The Sunday Game Live'' presented by Michael Lyster in high definition.

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will present ''The Sunday Game'' highlights and analysis show on Sunday evening.

Live Hurling On TV

, the national broadcaster in

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, will provide the majority of the live television coverage of the championship in the first year of a five-year deal running from 2017 until 2021.

will also broadcast a number of matches and will have exclusive rights to some games.

Awards

;Sunday Game Team of the Year ''

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'' team of the year was picked on 3 September, which was the night of the final. The panel consisting of Brendan Cummins, Michael Duignan,

Tomás Mulcahy Tomás Mulcahy (born 26 June 1963) is an Irish former hurler and Gaelic footballer who played as a right corner-forward at senior level for the Cork county team. Born in Blackpool, Cork, Mulcahy first played competitive Gaelic games during hi ...

Jackie Tyrrell Jackie Tyrrell (born 19 June 1982) is an Irish hurler whose league and championship career with the Kilkenny senior team spanned fourteen seasons from 2003 to 2016. Born in Kilkenny, Tyrrell was raised in a hurling household. His father, Dermo ...

, Anthony Daly, Eddie Brennan and Cyril Farrell unanimously selected Galway's

Gearóid McInerney Gearóid McInerney (born 24 September 1990) is an Irish hurler who currently plays as a centre-back for the Galway senior team. Born in Oranmore, County Galway, McInerney was born into a strong hurling family. His father, Gerry McInerney, wa ...

as the Sunday game player of the year. * Anthony Nash (Cork) * Adrian Tuohy (Galway) * Daithí Burke (Galway) * Noel Connors (Waterford) * Pádraic Mannion (Galway) * Gearóid McInerney (Galway) * Padraic Maher (Tipperary) * Jamie Barron (Waterford) * David Burke (Galway) * Kevin Moran (Waterford) * Joe Canning (Galway) * Michael ‘Brick’ Walsh (Waterford) * Conor Whelan (Galway) * Conor Cooney (Galway) * Patrick Horgan (Cork) ;All Star Team of the Year On 2 November, the 2017 '' PwC All-Stars'' winners were announced. On 3 November 2017 at the presentation of the All-Star awards,

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was named as the

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with

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named the All Stars Young Hurler of the Year. * Stephen O’Keeffe (Waterford) * Padraic Mannion (Galway) * Daithí Burke (Galway) * Noel Connors (Waterford) * Padraic Maher (Tipperary) * Gearóid McInerney (Galway) * Mark Coleman (Cork) * Jamie Barron (Waterford) * David Burke (Galway) * Kevin Moran (Waterford) * Joe Canning (Galway) * Michael Walsh (Waterford) * Conor Whelan (Galway) * Conor Cooney (Galway) * Patrick Horgan (Cork)

References

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Format

Provincial championships

Qualifiers Format

Qualifiers Preliminary round

Qualifiers Round 1 Format

Qualifiers Round 2 Format

All-Ireland Format

Team changes

To Championship

From Championship

Teams

General information

Personnel and kits

Summary

Championships

Provincial championships

Leinster Senior Hurling Championship

Group Stage

Leinster Knockout Stage

Matches

Leinster Semi-finals

Leinster final

Munster Senior Hurling Championship

Munster Quarter-final

Munster Semi-finals

Munster final

Ulster Senior Hurling Championship

Ulster Semi-finals

Ulster final

All-Ireland Qualifiers

Qualifiers preliminary round

Match

Qualifiers Round 1

Matches

Qualifiers Round 2

Matches

All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship

Bracket

All-Ireland Quarter-finals

All-Ireland Semi-finals

All-Ireland final

Championship Statistics

Top scorer overall

Top scorer in a single game

Clean sheets

Scoring events

Miscellaneous

Broadcast Rights

Live Hurling On TV

Awards

See also

References