The 2025 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship (SHC) was the 138th staging of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county hurling tournament, since its establishment in 1887.
Clare entered the competition as the defending champion, having won a first All-Ireland SHC title since 2013. However, they were eliminated in the Munster championship where they finished fourth, thus failing to defend their title.
were widely considered the favourites; the team finished as runner-up in the previous edition of the competition and won the 2025 National Hurling League, but have not won an All-Ireland SHC title since 2005. (last winner in 2015) were also considered a serious contender. (winners in 2018 and in 2020âÂÂ23) were also considered major contenders, until they were eliminated by Dublin in the quarter finals.
The final was played on 20 July at Croke Park in Dublin with Cork facing off against Tipperary, Tipperary came out as winners on a scoreline of 3âÂÂ27 to 1âÂÂ18, to earn their first title since 2019.
Antrim, Dublin, Galway, Kilkenny, Offaly, Wexford
Each team played each other once. The 1st and 2nd placed teams advanced to the Leinster SHC final and the 3rd placed team advanced to the All-Ireland SHC preliminary quarter-finals. All other teams were eliminated from the championship and the bottom placed team risked facing relegation to the following year's Joe McDonagh Cup.
The top 2 teams in the group stage contested this game. The Leinster champions advanced to the All-Ireland SHC semi-finals and the Leinster runners-up advanced to the All-Ireland SHC quarter-finals.
Clare, Cork, Limerick, Tipperary, Waterford
Each team played each other once. The 1st and 2nd placed teams advanced to the Munster SHC final and the 3rd placed team advanced to the All-Ireland SHC preliminary quarter-finals. All other teams were eliminated from the championship and the bottom placed team risked facing relegation to the following year's Joe McDonagh Cup.
The top 2 teams in the group stage contested this game. The Munster champions advanced to the All-Ireland SHC semi-finals and the Munster runners-up advanced to the All-Ireland SHC quarter-finals.
Carlow, Down, Kerry, Kildare, Laois, Westmeath
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 played the Joe McDonagh Cup champions and runners-up. Two teams were eliminated at this stage, while the winners advanced to the All-Ireland SHC 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 competed 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 2025 National Hurling League (after promotion and relegation are applied and after finals are played) before the championship were:
Connacht (1)
Leinster (8)
Munster (6)
Ulster (2)
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won the Christy Ring Cup.
won the Nicky Rackard Cup.
won the Lory Meagher Cup. As a result, retained their status in the Nicky Rackard Cup for 2026.
On 6 July, the GAA released a statement after the scoreboard at Croke Park misled Kilkenny and Tipperary towards the end of the All-Ireland SHC semi-final. Kilkenny believed a goal was necessary and spent the conclusion of the game trying to score one. The GAA later launched an investigation into the incident.
Taoiseach Micheál Martin was questioned at the Oireachtas Committee on Finance over whether he had returned early from his visit to Japan to watch the other semi-final between Cork and Dublin. When asked about "having "booked the flight home through Toronto at a cost to the taxpayer", he denied this was why he had returned four hours early and not flown through Dubai as originally expected.
A theme of the 2025 championship, as in previous years, will be the ongoing individual battle for the top championship scorer of all time between Patrick Horgan and T. J. Reid. Horgan is currently the top scorer (after the 2025 All-Ireland final) having brought his career tally to 779, compared to Reid's current tally of 758.
RTÃÂ, the national broadcaster in Ireland, provided the majority of the live television coverage of the hurling championship.
For the first year new streaming service GAA+ which replaced GAAGO also broadcast matches in Ireland exclusively on its pay streaming service.
BBC Two Northern Ireland showed the All-Ireland semi-finals and final.
The Sunday Game team of the year was picked 20 July on the night of the final. The panel consisting of Jackie Tyrrell, Brendan Cummins, Dónal ÃÂg Cusack, Joe Canning, Henry Shefflin, and Ursula Jacob also chose Jake Morris as the Sunday game player of the year.
On 6 November, the All-Star winners were announced. The awards ceremony was held at the RDS on 7 November.
The following table lists all 2025 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship matches with an attendance of at least 30,000. Attendance figures are taken from the match reports on this page.