The 2022 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship (SHC) was the 135th staging of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county hurling tournament, since its establishment in 1887. The provincial fixtures were released on 27 November 2021. The competition began on 16 April 2022 and concluded on 17 July 2022.
Limerick entered the competition as defending champion, having won the two previous editions.
Westmeath, having won the 2021 Joe McDonagh Cup, returned to the Leinster SHC for the first time since the 2017 competition.
The final was played on 17 July 2022 at Croke Park in Dublin, between Limerick and Kilkenny. Defending champion Limerick won the game by 1âÂÂ31 to 2âÂÂ26, claiming a first three-in-a-row, as well as a fourth title in five years.
Declan Hannon of Limerick became the first captain to lift the Liam MacCarthy Cup four times.
Participating counties (6): Dublin, Galway, Kilkenny, Laois, Westmeath, Wexford
Group stage (15 matches): Each team plays each other once. The 1st and 2nd placed teams advance to the Leinster final and the 3rd placed team advances to the all-Ireland preliminary quarter-finals. All other teams are eliminated from the championship and the bottom placed team may face relegation to next years Joe McDonagh Cup.
Final (1 match): The top 2 teams in the group stage contest this game. The Leinster champions advance to the All-Ireland semi-finals and the Leinster runners-up advance to the All-Ireland quarter-finals.
Participating counties (5): Clare, Cork, Limerick, Tipperary, Waterford
Group stage (10 matches): Each team plays each other once. The 1st and 2nd placed teams advance to the Munster final and the 3rd placed team advances to the all-Ireland preliminary quarter-finals. All other teams are eliminated from the championship and the bottom placed team may face relegation to next years Joe McDonagh Cup.
Final (1 match): The top 2 teams in the group stage contest this game. The Munster champions advance to the All-Ireland semi-finals and the Munster runners-up advance to the All-Ireland quarter-finals.
Participating counties (6): Antrim, Carlow, Down, Kerry, Meath, Offaly
Group stage (15 matches): Each team plays each other once. The 1st and 2nd placed teams advance to the Joe McDonagh Cup final. All other teams are eliminated from the championship and the bottom placed team are relegated to next years Christy Ring Cup.
Final (1 match): The top 2 teams in the group stage contest this game. The Joe McDonagh Cup champions and runners-up advance to the All-Ireland preliminary quarter-finals.
Preliminary quarter-finals (2 matches): The 3rd placed teams from the Leinster and Munster championships play the Joe McDonagh Cup champions and runners-up. Two teams are eliminated at this stage while the winners advance to the quarter-finals.
Quarter-finals (2 matches): The winners of the preliminary quarter-finals join the Leinster and Munster runners-up to make up the quarter-final pairings. Teams who may have already met in the provincial championships are kept apart in separate quarter-finals. Two teams are eliminated at this stage while the winners advance to the semi-finals.
Semi-finals (2 matches): The winners of the quarter-finals join the Leinster and Munster champions to make up the semi-final pairings. Teams who may have already met in the provincial championships are kept apart in separate semi-finals where possible. Two teams are eliminated at this stage while the winners advance to the final.
Final (1 match): The two winners of the semi-finals contest this game.
Promoted from the Christy Ring Cup
Included in the Championship
Seventeen counties will compete in the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship: six teams in the Leinster Senior Hurling Championship, five teams in the Munster Senior Hurling Championship and six teams in the Joe McDonagh Cup.
Antrim beat Kerry in the 2022 Joe McDonagh Cup final and were promoted to the 2023 Leinster Senior Hurling Championship. Laois were relegated to the 2023 Joe McDonagh Cup as they finished last in the 2022 Leinster Senior Hurling Championship.
RTÃÂ, the national broadcaster in Ireland, provided the majority of the live television coverage of the hurling championship with 17 games shown. Sky Sports also broadcast a number of matches and had exclusive rights to some games.
The Sunday Game team of the year was picked 17 July on the night of the final. The panel consisting of Jackie Tyrrell, Brendan Cummins, Donal ÃÂg Cusack, Davy Fitzgerald, Shane Dowling, and Ursula Jacob chose Diarmaid Byrnes as the Sunday game player of the year from a list that also contained TJ Reid and Barry Nash.
On 28 October, the All-Star winners were presented at a black-tie ceremony at the Convention Centre in Dublin. Diarmaid Byrnes was named as the All Stars Hurler of the Year with Mikey Butler named the All Stars Young Hurler of the Year.