The 2023 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship (SHC) was the 136th staging of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county hurling tournament, since its establishment in 1887. The competition began in April 2023 and ended on 23 July 2023.
Limerick entered the competition as defending champion, having won its previous three editions.
The final was played on 23 July 2023 at Croke Park in Dublin, between Limerick and Kilkenny. Defending champion Limerick won the game by 0âÂÂ30 to 2âÂÂ15 to claim a four-in-a-row, as well as a fifth title in six years.
Antrim, Dublin, Galway, Kilkenny, Westmeath, Wexford
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.
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.
Clare, Cork, Limerick, Tipperary, Waterford
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.
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.
Carlow, Down, Kerry, Kildare, Laois, Offaly
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The two winners of the semi-finals contest this game.
Promoted from the Christy Ring Cup
Relegated to the Christy Ring Cup
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.
The participating teams, listed by province, with numbers in parentheses indicating final positions in the 2023 National Hurling League before the championship were:
Connacht (1)
Leinster (8)
Munster (6)
Ulster (2)
Carlow will be promoted to the 2024 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.
For the first time GAAGO also broadcast 9 matches in Ireland as part of a deal that will run to 2027 and had exclusive rights to some games. After the GAA's broadcasting contract with Sky Sports expired in October 2022 and they did not seek contracts with producers on free-to-air channels such as Virgin Media Sport, GAAGO was the only place to watch certain games of the 2023 Munster Senior Hurling Championship. This was criticised by some including Tánaiste Micheál Martin.
After suspicion the service was operating beyond its clearance given by the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission in 2017, the commission opened an inquiry in May 2023 into the service's adherence to competition law. RTÃÂ told the Irish Examiner that they believed that "CCPC approval was not needed".
On 12 July 2023, senior GAA officials appeared before the Oireachtas Sport and Media Committee to defend the controversial GAAGO coverage of All-Ireland championships, saying broadcasting every championship match on TV was "not realistic" and not in the GAA's "interest".
The Sunday Game team of the year was picked 23 July on the night of the final. The panel consisting of Jackie Tyrrell, Brendan Cummins, Donal ÃÂg Cusack, Joe Canning, Shane Dowling, and Ursula Jacob also chose Kyle Hayes as the Sunday game player of the year.
On 16 November, the All-Star winners were announced. The awards ceremony was held at the RDS on 17 November. Aaron Gillane was named as the GAA/GPA Hurler of the Year with Mark Rodgers named as the GAA/GPA Young Hurler of the Year.