1998 National Hurling League

1998 National Hurling League
League details
Dates 8 March – 25 July, 1998
Teams 32
League champions
Winners Cork (14th win)
Captain Diarmuid O'Sullivan
Manager Jimmy Barry-Murphy
League runners-up
Runners-up Waterford
Captain Stephen Frampton
Manager Gerald McCarthy
Other division winners
Division 2 Kerry
Division 3 Mayo
1997
1999

The 1998 National Hurling League, known for sponsorship reasons as the Church & General National Hurling League, was the 66th edition of the National Hurling League (NHL), an annual hurling competition for the GAA county teams.[1] Cork won the league, beating Waterford by 2-14 to 0-13 in the final.[2]

Format change

At a meeting of the GAA's Central Council in August 1997 it was agreed to change the structure of the National League. It was decided to revert to the "mixed ability" format which was used in the football league five years earlier. In that format two counties from each of the previous season's four hierarchical divisions were placed in four new divisions - each of which thus had eight teams with two representatives from each of the present four divisions.

The top two in each division qualified for both the quarter-finals and the following season's Division One. Second and third-placed teams were ranked Division Two and so on down to the end of the table.

It was also decided to revise the National Hurling League programme, which switched to a calendar year for the 1997 National League.[3]

Division placings

Division 1A

Pos Team Pld W D L F A Diff Pts Notes
1 Limerick 55007-574-581810
2 Clare 53025-839-52196
3 Galway 53029-674-66166
4 Dublin 52038-595-62964
5 Offaly 51046-6210-58-82
6 Antrim 51047-479-49-82

Division 1B

Pos Team Pld W D L F A Diff Pts Notes
1 Cork 54105-646-42199 Division 1 champions
2 Waterford 53118-648-52127 Division 1 runners-up
3 Wexford 52214-602-6066
4 Tipperary 511310-527-5743
5 Laois 51133-548-56-173
6 Kilkenny 51045-545-69-152

Results

Division 2A

Pos Team Pld W D L F A Diff Pts Notes
1 Carlow 650117-885-527210
2 Kerry 650117-995-716410 Division 2 champions
3 Derry 640213-735-64338
4 Wicklow 64024-848-51218
5 Monaghan 62046-4018-82-784
6 Roscommon 610512-538-68-32
7 Armagh 60062-4122-90-1090

Division 2B

Pos Team Pld W D L F A Diff Pts Notes
1 Down 660020-1006-3910312
2 Westmeath 650121-807-388410 Division 2 runners-up
3 London 53027-569-5006
4 Meath 620412-6910-60154
5 Kildare 62045-5414-65-284
6 Tyrone 62046-4018-89-854
7 Louth 60069-2816-96-890

Results

Division 3

Pos Team Pld W D L F A Diff Pts Notes
1 Cavan 651012-404-364811 Division 3 runners-up
2 Mayo 650114-7910-266510 Division 3 champions
3 Leitrim 63125-419-51-227
4 Longford 630310-577-51156
5 Fermanagh 63036-522-5866
6 Sligo 61056-3013-79-702
7 Donegal 60065-3813-66-520

Results

References

  1. Gaelic Games
  2. "National Hurling League Results 1925-2009". Hogan Stand. Retrieved 18 April 2011.
  3. "Leagues will be revamped". Irish Times. 25 August 1997. Retrieved 21 April 2011.
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