The Ulster Senior Club Hurling Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the AIB Ulster GAA Hurling Senior Club Championship) is an annual

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 Ulster Council of the

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and contested by the champion hurling teams in the province of

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. It is the most prestigious club competition in Ulster hurling. Introduced in

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, it was initially a straight knockout tournament open to the nine county club champion teams in Ulster. The competition currently retains the knockout format but features just four teams who represent the strongest hurling counties in Ulster. In its current format, the Ulster Club Championship begins in October with the semi-finals. Entrants are not seeded. The two semi-final winners proceed to the final which is currently played in late October or early November. The winner of the Ulster Club Championship, as well as being presented with the Four Seasons Cup, qualifies for the subsequent All-Ireland Club Championship. The competition has been won by 10 teams, 8 of which have won it more than once. Ruairí Óg, Cushendall is the most successful team in the tournament's history, having won it 11 times.

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are the reigning champions, having beaten Slaughtneil by 2-12 to 0-16 in the

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Teams

Qualification

Finals by year

* The winners are listed in bold if they also won the

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

Roll of Honour

By county

By club

Records and statistics

Teams

By decade

The most successful team of each decade, judged by number of Ulster Championship titles, is as follows: * 1970s: 2 each for

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(1970–71),

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 ...

(1972–77), Ballycran (1974–76), Ballycastle McQuillan (1978–79) * 1980s: 4 for Ballycastle McQuillan (1980-83-84-86) * 1990s: 4 each for

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

(2000-01-02-03-07-09) * 2010s: 4 for

(2010-11-12-13)

Gaps

Top five longest gaps between successive championship titles: * 23 years: Ballygalget (1975-1998) * 21 years:

(1989-2010) * 17 years: Ballycran (1976-1993) * 16 years:

(1988-2004) * 11 years:

(1977-1988)

Top scorers

By year

In finals

References

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