Munster Senior Hurling League
Munster Senior Hurling League | |
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Irish | Sraith Shinsir Iomána na Mumhan |
Code | Hurling |
Founded | 2016 |
Region | Munster (GAA) |
Trophy | Munster Senior Hurling League Trophy |
No. of teams | 4 |
Title holders | Limerick (1st title) |
Most titles | Clare, Cork, Limerick (1 titles) |
Sponsors | Co-Op Superstores |
Official website | http://munster.gaa.ie/fixtures/munster-senior-hurling-league/ |
The Munster Senior Hurling League is an annual hurling competition organised by the Munster Council of the Gaelic Athletic Association since 2016 for the top inter-county teams in the province of Munster in Ireland.
The series of games are played during January. The Munster Senior Hurling League is effectively a pre-season tournament. It allows teams to blood new players and to experiment prior to the opening of the National Hurling League.
Five teams currently participate in the Munster Senior Hurling League, however, six teams are actually eligible to participate. Participation or non-participation can be decided on an annual basis.[1]
Limerick are the current champions.
Format
There are currently five teams in the Munster League. During the course of the four-week season each team plays the others once (a single round-robin system) for a total of four games. Teams receive two points for a win and one point for a draw. No points are awarded for a loss. Teams are ranked by total points and then scoring difference. The top two teams after the group stage contest the final.
Stadia
Location | Stadium | Capacity |
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Limerick | Gaelic Grounds | 50,000 |
Killarney | Fitzgerald Stadium | 43,180 |
Waterford | Walsh Park | 17,000 |
Dungarvan | Fraher Field | 15,000 |
Tralee | Austin Stack Park | 12,000 |
Mallow | Mallow GAA Complex | 8,000 |
Sixmilebridge | O'Garney Park | 7,000 |
Kilmallock | FitzGerald Park | 4,000 |
As of the 2017 season, Munster League hurling has been played in nine stadiums since the formation of the league in 2016.
While the traditional county grounds are sometimes used for league matches, smaller club grounds have usually been used for games which may not have had such a high profile.
Munster League matches are usually played on a rolling home and away basis.
The stadiums for the 2017 league showed a large disparity in capacity: Gaelic Grounds, the home ground of Limerick has a capacity of 50,500 with O'Garney Park, one of the grounds used by Clare, having a capacity of 7,000. The combined total capacity of the Munster League in the 2017 season was 111,000.
Stadium attendances are a significant source of regular income for the Munster Council and the individual county boards.
List of finals
Year | Winners | Score | Runners-up | Score | Venue | Winning Captain(s) | Winning Team | |
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2016 | Clare | 0-18 | Limerick | 0-17 | Gaelic Grounds | Cian Dillon Tony Kelly |
A Fahy; J Browne, P O’Connor, P Flanagan; C Dillon, D McInerney, C Cleary; G O’Connell, D Reidy; P Duggan, C Ryan, D Fitzgerald; J Conlon, D Honan, B Duggan. Subs: T Kelly, B Bolger, S Golden, C O’Connell. |
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2017 | Cork | 1-21 | Limerick | 1-20 | Gaelic Grounds | Stephen McDonnell | A Nash, S McDonnell, C Spillane, D Cahalane, M Ellis, C Joyce, M Coleman, L McLoughlin, D Kearney, C Lehane, L Meade, S Kingston, A Cadogan, P Horgan, D Fitzgibbon. Subs: D Griffin, K Burke, D Brosnan, S Harnedy, C O’Sullivan. |
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2018 | Limerick | 0-16 | Clare | 0-10 | Gaelic Grounds | Paul Browne Declan Hannon |
Nickie Quaid; Tom Condon, Seamus Hickey, Richie English; Diarmaid Byrnes, Dan Morrissey, William O’Meara; Paul Browne, Cian Lynch; Tom Morrissey, Darragh O’Donovan, Barry O’Connell; Aaron Gillane, Seamus Flanagan, Gearoid Hegarty. Subs: Barry Murphy, David Reidy, Andrew La Touche Cosgrave | [3] |
Top scorers
Rank | Player | Team | Era | Score | Total |
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1 | Shane Nolan | Kerry | 2016-present | 0-45 | 45 |
2 | Patrick Horgan | Cork | 2016-present | 2-28 | 34 |
3 | Declan Hannon | Limerick | 2016-present | 1-22 | 25 |
References
- ↑ "Colleges excluded from Munster pre-season competitions". Hogan Stand. 4 December 2015. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
- ↑ "Clare take Munster SHL title after tight tussle with Limerick". Irish Times. 23 January 2016. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
- ↑ http://www.limerickleader.ie/news/sport/291557/limerick-lift-munster-hurling-league-with-final-win-over-clare.html