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Munster Senior Hurling Championship records and statistics

This page details statistics of the Munster Senior Hurling Championship.

General performances

Performance by county

Counties

By Semi-Final/Top 4 Appearances (since 2015)

Other records

By decade

The most successful team of each decade, judged by number of Munster Senior Hurling Championship titles, is as follows:

  • 1890s: 4 each for Cork (1890-92-93-94) and Tipperary (1895-96-98-99)
  • 1900s: 6 for Cork (1901-02-03-04-05-07)
  • 1910s: 3 each for Limerick (1910-11-18), Cork (1912-15-19) and Tipperary (1913-16-17)
  • 1920s: 5 for Cork (1920-26-27-28-29)
  • 1930s: 4 for Limerick (1933-34-35-36)
  • 1940s: 5 for Cork (1942-43-44-46-47)
  • 1950s: 4 for Cork (1952-53-54-56)
  • 1960s: 7 for Tipperary (1960-61-62-64-65-67-68)
  • 1970s: 7 for Cork (1970-72-75-76-77-78-79)
  • 1980s: 5 for Cork (1982-83-84-85-86)
  • 1990s: 3 each for Clare (1995-97-98) and Cork (1990-92-99)
  • 2000s: 4 for Cork (2000-03-05-06)
  • 2010s: 4 for Tipperary (2011-12-15-16)
  • 2020s: 5 for Limerick (2020-21-22-23-24)

Finishing positions

  • Most championships
  • 54, Cork (1888, 1890, 1892, 1893, 1894, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1907, 1912, 1915, 1919, 1920, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1931, 1939, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1946, 1947, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1956, 1966, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1990, 1992, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2014, 2017, 2018)
  • Most second-place finishes
  • 30, Cork (1896, 1897, 1898, 1906, 1909, 1910, 1913, 1914, 1916, 1921, 1932, 1940, 1941, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1964, 1965, 1968, 1980, 1987, 1988, 1991, 2004, 2010, 2013)
  • Most third-place finishes
  • 3, Cork (2019, 2022, 2024)
  • Most fourth-place finishes
  • 2, Waterford (2022, 2024)
  • Most fifth-place finishes
  • 3, Waterford (2018, 2019, 2023)

Other records

Biggest wins

  • The most one sided Munster finals since 1896 when goals were made equal to three points:
  • 31 points – 1918: Limerick 11-03 – 1-02 Clare
  • 31 points – 1982: Cork 5-31 – 3-06 Waterford
  • 28 points – 1893: Cork 5-13 – 0-00 Limerick
  • 27 points – 1903: Cork 5-16 – 1-01 Waterford
  • 26 points – 1905: Cork 7-12 – 1-04 Limerick
  • 23 points – 1899: Tipperary 5-16 – 0-08 Clare
  • 22 points – 1900: Tipperary 6-11 – 2-01 Kerry
  • 22 points – 1972: Cork 6-18 – 2-08 Clare
  • 21 points – 2016: Tipperary 5-19 (34) – (13 0-13 Waterford
  • 21 points – 1896: Tipperary 7-09 – 2-03 Cork
  • 21 points – 2011: Tipperary 7-19 – 0-19 Waterford
  • 20 points – 1962: Tipperary 5-14 – 2-03 Waterford
  • 19 points – 1915: Cork 8-02 – 2-01 Clare
  • 19 points – 1983: Cork 3-22 – 0-12 Waterford
  • 18 points – 1993: Tipperary 3-27 – 2-12 Clare
  • 18 points – 1965: Tipperary 4-11 – 0-05 Cork
  • The most one sided games from the semi-final and quarter-final stages of the championship:
  • 42 points – 1923: Cork 13-04 – 0-01 Waterford
  • 41 points – 1904: Tipperary 8-21 – 0-04 Waterford
  • 34 points – 2000: Cork 2-32 – 0-04 Kerry
  • 34 points – 1953: Clare 10-08 – 1-01 Limerick
  • 32 points – 1960: Tipperary 10-09 – 2-01 Limerick

Successful defending

Only 4 teams of the 6 who have won the Munster championship have ever successfully defended the title. These are:

  • Cork on 27 attempts out of 50 (1893, 1894, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1920, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1943, 1944, 1947, 1953, 1954, 1970, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 2000, 2006, 2018)
  • Tipperary on 16 attempts out of 40 (1896, 1899, 1900, 1909, 1917, 1925, 1950, 1951, 1961, 1962, 1965, 1968, 1988, 1989, 2009, 2012)
  • Limerick on 11 attempts out of 24 (1911, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1974, 1981, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
  • Clare on 1 attempt out of 6 (1998)

The most consecutive titles is 6 in a row, achieved by just one county:

Gaps

  • Top ten longest gaps between successive Munster titles:

Active Gaps

  • Longest active gaps since last title:
  • 133 years: Kerry (1891–)
  • 26 years: Clare (1998–)
  • 14 years: Waterford (2010–)
  • 8 years: Tipperary (2016–)
  • 6 years: Cork (2018–)
  • Longest active gaps since last championship final appearance:
  • 116 years: Kerry (1908–)
  • 6 years: Cork (2018–)
  • 4 years: Waterford (2020–)
  • 3 years: Tipperary (2021–)
  • Longest active gap since last championship appearance:
  • 55 years: Galway (1969–)
  • 20 years: Kerry (2004–)

Munster final pairings

Longest undefeated run

  • Cork (15 matches): Cork's run began with a 1-19 to 2-8 win against Tipperary in the quarter-final of the 1982 championship and finished with a 1-18 apiece draw with Tipperary in the Munster final of the 1987 championship. The 15-game unbeaten streak, which included just one drawn game, ended with a 4-22 to 1-22 extra-time loss to Tipperary in the replay of the 1987 Munster final.
  • Limerick (15 matches): As of 11 June 2023, Limerick are currently unbeaten in 15 Munster Championship games, a run that started in the 2019 Munster Final on 30 June 2019.

Players

Top scorers

All time

This is a list of players who have scored a cumulative total of 100 points or more in the Munster Championship.

By year

Single game

Finals

All-time appearances

Munster final appearances

Munster medal winners

Other records

Matches

Attendances

Overall

Finals

See also

External links

References