2016 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship

2016 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
Championship details
Dates	1 May 2016 — 4 September 2016
Teams	14
All-Ireland champions
Provincial champions
Munster	Not Played
Leinster	Not Played
Ulster	Not part of The All-Ireland SHC
Connacht	Not Played
Championship statistics
All-Star Team	See here
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The 2016 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship will be the 129th staging of the All-Ireland championship since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1887. The draw for the 2016 fixtures took place on 15 October 2015 live on RTE 2, which was presented by Michael Lyster and Marty Morrissey.^[1]^[2]^[3]

The championship will begin on 1 May 2016 and is scheduled to end on 4 September 2016

Kilkenny will be the defending champions.^[4] Kerry will field a team for the first time since 2004.

Format

The All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship is based solely on the Leinster and Munster provincial championships. Fourteen teams take part. In 2016 the bottom team in the Leinster qualifier group will be relegated to the Christy Ring Cup (2nd tier). Their place in next year's Leinster qualifier group will be taken by the winner of 2016’s Christy Ring Cup.

Leinster Senior Hurling Championship

Seven Leinster counties compete. Galway and Kerry, though not in Leinster, also participate. Kerry qualified for this year's Leinster Championship by winning the 2015 Christy Ring Cup.

Munster Senior Hurling Championship

Five Munster counties compete. Kerry participate in The Leinster Hurling Championship (see above).

Connacht Senior Hurling Championship

This competition is no longer organised. Galway represent Connacht and participate in the Leinster Championship.

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 for the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship.

Changes from 2015 championship

Hawkeye will be used for the first time in the Munster Hurling Championship in Thurles when Tipperary meet Cork on 22 May 2016. Previously it was only used in Croke Park.^[5]

Teams

Overview

All bar one of the teams from the 2015 championship will line out in hurling's top tier in 2016.

Antrim, who finished bottom of the 2015 Leinster qualifier group, were relegated to the Christy Ring Cup. Their place in the 2016 Leinster qualifier group goes to Kerry who won the 2015 Christy Ring Cup and gained automatic promotion.^[6] It will be the first time since 2004 that Kerry will participate in the senior championship.

List of teams

Team	Colours	Sponsor	Captain(s)	Vice-captain(s)	Manager(s)	Most recent success
Team	Colours	Sponsor	Captain(s)	Vice-captain(s)	Manager(s)
All-Ireland	Provincial	League
Carlow		Dan Morrissey Ltd.	Séamus Murphy Alan Corcoran		Pat English
Clare		Pat O'Donnell	Tony Kelly Cian Dillon	Colin Ryan Shane O'Donnell	Davy Fitzgerald	2013	1998	1977–78
Cork		Chill Insurance	Stephen McDonnell	Séamus Harnedy	Kieran Kingston	2005	2014	1998
Dublin		AIG	Liam Rushe		Ger Cunningham	1938	2013	2011
Galway		Supermac's	David Burke	Joe Canning	Micheal Donoghue	1988	2012	2010
Kerry		Kerry Group	Daniel Collins	Tom Murnane	Ciarán Carey	1891	1891
Kilkenny		Glanbia	Shane Prendergast		Brian Cody	2015	2015	2014
Laois		MW Hire Services			Séamus Plunkett	1915	1949
Limerick		Sporting Limerick	Nickie Quaid	Séamus Hickey	T. J. Ryan	1973	2013	1997
Offaly		Carroll Cuisine	Colin Egan	James Dempsey James Mulrooney	Éamonn Kelly	1998	1995	1990–91
Tipperary		Intersport/Elverys	Brendan Maher	Pádraic Maher	Michael Ryan	2010	2015	2008
Waterford		3	Kevin Moran		Derek McGrath	1959	2010	2015
Westmeath		Renault	Aonghus Clarke		Michael Ryan
Wexford		Gain	Matthew O'Hanlon	Lee Chin	Liam Dunne	1996	2004	1972–73

Provincial Championships

Leinster Senior Hurling Championship

Qualifier group

	Team	Pld	W	D	L	SF	SA	SD	Pts
1	Westmeath	1	1	0	0	2-22	1-11	+14	2
2	Kerry	1	1	0	0	2-19	0-17	+8	2
3	Carlow	0	0	0	1	0-17	2-19	-8	0
4	Offaly	0	0	0	1	1-11	2-22	-14	0
Green background (rows 1 and 2) are the teams that earn a place in the quarter-finals of this year's Leinster Championship. Red background (row 4) are relegated and play in the Christy Ring Cup next year. The winners of this year's Christy Ring Cup are promoted in their place to the qualifier group of next year's Leinster Championship.

1 May 2016 Round 1	Kerry	2-19 - 0-17	Carlow	Austin Stack Park, Tralee
15:00	S Nolan (1-04 (0-03f)), J Egan (1-03), J Griffin (0-03), M Boyle, J Goulding, J Conway (0-02 each), D Collins, M O'Leary, D Dineen (0-01f) (0-01 each).	Report	M Kavanagh (0-08 (0-06f), JM Nolan (0-02), J Kavanagh, R Kelly, Seamus Murphy, Sean Murphy, J Doyle (0-01f), C Lawlor, HP O'Byrne (0-01 each)	Referee: C Lyons (Cork)

1 May 2016 Round 1	Westmeath	2-22 - 1-11	Offaly	O'Connor Park, Tullamore
15:00	E Price (1-05), N O'Brien (0-07 (0-05f)) D McNicholas (1-02), C Boyle (0-03), L Varley (0-02), D Egerton, A Devine, D Clinton (0-01 each).	Report	P Murphy (1-01), S Dooley (0-03 (0-03f)), S Ryan, S Kinsella, K Kiely (0-02 each), J Bergin (0-01 (0-01f)).	Referee: S Cleere (Kilkenney)

8 May 2016 Round 2	Kerry	v	Westmeath	Austin Stack Park

8 May 2016 Round 2	Offaly	v	Carlow	O'Connor Park

22 May 2016 Round 3	Kerry	v	Carlow	Austin Stack Park

22 May 2016 Round 3	Westmeath	v	Offaly	Cusack Park

Knockout

Quarter-Finals

29 May 2016 Quarter-final	Dublin	v	Wexford	Croke Park

5 June 2016 Quarter-final	Group stage winner	v	Galway

5 June 2016 Quarter-final	Group stage runner-up	v	Laois

Semi-Finals

11 June 2016 Semi-final		v	Kilkenny	O'Moore Park / Wexford Park

19 June 2016 Semi-final		v

Final

3 July 2016 Final		v		Croke Park

Munster Senior Hurling Championship

Quarter-Final

22 May 2016 Quarter-final	Tipperary	v	Cork	Semple Stadium

Semi-Finals

5 June 2016 Semi-final	Clare	v	Waterford	Semple Stadium

19 June 2016 Semi-final	Limerick	v	Tipperary / Cork	Semple Stadium / Gaelic Grounds

Final

10 July 2016 Final		v
16:00

Ulster Senior Hurling Championship

In November 2015 a new two-tier Ulster Senior Hurling Championship format was announced. The Ulster champions will not participate in the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship.

All-Ireland Qualifiers

Round 1

The eight teams beaten in the quarter-finals and semi-finals of the Leinster (5 teams) and Munster (3 teams) provincial championships play four knock-out matches.

Round 1		v

Round 1		v

Round 1		v

Round 1		v

Round 2

10 July 2016 Round 2		v
17:00

10 July 2016 Round 2		v
19:00

All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship

Quarter-finals

24 July 2016 Quarter-final		v		Semple Stadium
14:00

24 July 2016 Quarter-final		v		Semple Stadium
16:00

Semi-finals

7 August 2016 Semi-final	Leinster champions	v		Croke Park
15:30

14 August 2016 Semi-final	Munster champions	v		Croke Park
15:30

Final

4 September 2016 Final		v		Croke Park
15:30

Statistics

Top scorers

Single game

Rank	Player	County	Tally	Total	Opposition
1	Eoin Price	Westmeath	1-5	8	Offaly
1	Marty Kavanagh	Carlow	0-8	8	Kerry
3	Shane Nolan	Kerry	1-4	7	Carlow
3	Niall O'Brien	Westmeath	0-7	7	Offaly
5	John Egan	Kerry	1-3	6	Carlow

Clean sheets

Rank	Goalkeeper	County	Clean sheets
1	Aidan McCabe	Kerry	1

Miscellaneous

Kerry become the first team from Munster to play in the Leinster Championship. Their opening round robin match against Carlow is the first ever championship meeting between the two teams.
Westmeath defeat Offaly in the championship for the first time since 1976. Their opening Leinster round robin game was also their first championship meeting since then.

References

↑ "Revealed: The provincial draws for the 2016 All-Ireland hurling and football championships". Irish Independent. 15 October 2015. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
↑ "Kilkenny to begin 2016 championship campaign against Wexford or Dublin". The 42. 15 October 2015. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
↑ "The 2016 All Ireland Football and Hurling draws: as it happened". The 42. 15 October 2015. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
↑ McGoldrick, Seán (6 September 2015). "Kilkenny deliver an 11th All-Ireland for Brian Cody as Galway challenge fades away". Irish Independnet. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
↑ Gaelic Athletic Association. "Hawkeye confirmed for Munster SHC clash between Cork and Tipperary at Semple". gaa.ie. Retrieved 2 May 2016.
↑ "Explainer: Why will the Kerry hurlers be in Leinster next year?". The 42. 8 June 2015. Retrieved 15 July 2015.

All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship

Quarter-finals Semi-finals Finals

Qualification	via Connacht via Leinster via Munster via Ulster via the Christy Ring Cup

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Statistics	Finalists Hat-tricks Records Top scorers Winning captains Winning managers Winning players Winning teams

Miscellaneous	All Stars History Hurler of the Year Player of the Month Trophy

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