The Antrim Senior Hurling Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the Bathshack.com Antrim Senior Hurling Championship and abbreviated to the Antrim SHC) is an annual club

hurling Hurling ( ga, iománaíocht, ') is an outdoor team game of ancient Gaelic Irish origin, played by men. One of Ireland's native Gaelic games, it shares a number of features with Gaelic football, such as the field and goals, the number of p ...

competition organised by the Antrim County Board of the

Gaelic Athletic Association The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA; ga, Cumann Lúthchleas Gael ; CLG) is an Irish international amateur sporting and cultural organisation, focused primarily on promoting indigenous Gaelic games and pastimes, which include the traditional ...

. It is contested by the top-ranking senior clubs in the

county of Antrim County Antrim (named after the town of Antrim, ) is one of six counties of Northern Ireland and one of the thirty-two counties of Ireland. Adjoined to the north-east shore of Lough Neagh, the county covers an area of and has a population o ...

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, with the winners decided through a group and knockout format. It is the most prestigious competition in Antrim hurling. In its present format, the eight teams are drawn into two groups of four teams and play each other in a single round-robin system. The two group winners proceed to the knockout phase that culminates with the final. The winner of the Antrim Senior Championship, as well as being presented with the Volunteer Cup, qualifies for the subsequent Ulster Club Championship. The competition has been won by 19 teams, 15 of which have won it more than once.

Loughgiel Shamrocks Loughgiel Shamrocks GAC is a Gaelic Athletic Association club located in the village of Loughgiel/ Loughguile in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. They are currently the only club in Ulster to have won an All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Champion ...

is the most successful team in the tournament's history, having won it 20 times.

Dunloy Dunloy () is a village and townland in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is located north of Ballymena and north-west is Ballymoney. It is located in the civil parishes in Ireland, civil parish of Finvoy, in the former Barony (Ireland), baro ...

are the reigning champions, having beaten Cushenall by 1-20 to 2–11 in the 2022 final. Commonly the final takes place at Antrim's county stadium,

Casement Park Casement Park ( ga, Páirc Mhic Asmaint) is the principal Gaelic games stadium in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and serves as the home ground of the Antrim football and hurling teams. It is located in Andersonstown Road in the west of the city, a ...

. However, on account of the ground's ongoing redevelopment the 2013 and 2014 finals were held at Páirc Mac Uílín in Ballycastle. The 2015 final was held at

's Pearse Park, due to McQuillan Ballycastle's appearance in the decider.

Wins listed by club

Finals listed by year

Records and statistics

Teams

By decade

The most successful team of each decade, judged by number of Antrim SHC titles, is as follows: * 1970s: 3 each for

O'Donovan Rossa Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa ( ga, Diarmaid Ó Donnabháin Rosa; baptised 4 September 1831, died 29 June 1915)Con O'Callaghan Reenascreena Community Online (dead link archived at archive.org, 29 September 2014) was an Irish Fenian leader and member ...

(1972-76-77) and McQuillans Ballycastle (1975-78-79) * 1980s: 4 for McQuillans Ballycastle (1980-83-84-86) * 1990s: 5 each for

(1990-94-95-97-98) and Ruairí Óg (1991-92-93-96-99) * 2000s: 6 for

(2000-01-02-03-07-09) * 2010s: 5 for

(2010-11-12-13-16)

References

External links

Official Antrim GAA Website

{{Antrim GAA, state=expanded Hurling competitions in County Antrim Hurling competitions in Northern Ireland Hurling competitions in Ulster Senior hurling county championships