Munster Senior Hurling League

Munster Senior Hurling League
Current season or competition:
2018 Munster Senior Hurling League
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
LimerickGaelic Grounds50,000
KillarneyFitzgerald Stadium43,180
WaterfordWalsh Park17,000
DungarvanFraher Field15,000
TraleeAustin Stack Park12,000
MallowMallow GAA Complex8,000
SixmilebridgeO'Garney Park7,000
KilmallockFitzGerald Park4,000

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
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.		 [2]
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.
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

RankPlayerTeamEraScoreTotal
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

  1. ↑ "Colleges excluded from Munster pre-season competitions". Hogan Stand. 4 December 2015. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
  2. ↑ "Clare take Munster SHL title after tight tussle with Limerick". Irish Times. 23 January 2016. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
  3. ↑ http://www.limerickleader.ie/news/sport/291557/limerick-lift-munster-hurling-league-with-final-win-over-clare.html
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