2025 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship

Leinster Championship Participating counties (6) Antrim, Dublin, Galway, Kilkenny, Offaly, Wexford Group stage (15 matches) 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. Munster Championship Participating counties (5) Clare, Cork, Limerick, Tipperary, Waterford Group stage (15 matches) 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. Quarter-finals (2 matches) 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. Semi-finals (2 matches) 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. Final (1 match) The two winners of the semi-finals contest this game. == Team changes ==

To Championship Promoted from the Christy Ring Cup • Kildare From Championship Relegated to the Christy Ring Cup • Meath ==Teams==

General information 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. Personnel and kits Teams by Province 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) • Galway Leinster (8) • Carlow • Dublin • Kildare • Kilkenny • Laois • Offaly • Westmeath • Wexford Munster (6) • Clare • Cork • Kerry • Limerick • Tipperary • Waterford Ulster (2) • Antrim • Down ==Summary==

Championships == Provincial Championships ==

Leinster Senior Hurling Championship Group Stage Source: Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Round 5 Leinster final Munster Senior Hurling Championship Group Stage Sources: Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Round 5 Munster final == Cup competitions ==

Joe McDonagh Cup (Tier 2) Group Stage Source: Final Christy Ring Cup (Tier 3) Group Stage Final '''''' won the Christy Ring Cup. Nicky Rackard Cup (Tier 4) Group Stage Final '''''' won the Nicky Rackard Cup. Lory Meagher Cup (Tier 5) Group Stage Semi-final Final ' won the Lory Meagher Cup. As a result, ' retained their status in the Nicky Rackard Cup for 2026. == All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship ==

Bracket == Preliminary quarter-finals ==

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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. ==Stadia and locations==

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Top scorers Overall One theme of the 2025 championship was the ongoing individual battle for the top championship scorer of all time between Patrick Horgan and T. J. Reid. At the end of the season, Horgan retired from the game, leaving as the current all time top scorer having brought his career tally to 779, compared to Reid's tally of 758. Reid continues to play. From Play In a single game Scoring events • Widest winning margin: 39 points • Down 1–12 – 6–36 Laois (Joe McDonagh Cup Round 2) • Most goals in a match: 11 • Westmeath 4–22 – 7–23 Carlow (Joe McDonagh Cup Round 4) • Most points in a match: 52 • Limerick 0–28 – 2–24 Dublin (All-Ireland Quarter-Final) • Most goals by one team in a match: 7 • Fermanagh 2–18 – 7–20 Sligo (Nicky Rackard Cup Round 3) • Westmeath 4–22 – 7–23 Carlow (Joe McDonagh Cup Round 4) • Cork 7–26 – 2–21 Dublin (All-Ireland Semi-Final) • Most points by one team in a match: 36 • Down 1–12 – 6–36 Laois (Joe McDonagh Cup Round 2) • Highest aggregate score: 78 points • Westmeath 4–22 – 7–23 Carlow (Joe McDonagh Cup Round 4) • Lowest aggregate score: 27 points • Donegal 1–10 – 1–11 Wicklow (Christy Ring Cup Round 2) • Hat-trick Heros: • Chris Nolan (Carlow) 3–1 v Down (Joe McDonagh Cup Round 1) • James Duggan (Laois) 5–2 v Kerry (Joe McDonagh Cup Round 3) • Martin Kavanagh (Carlow) 3–12 v Westmeath (Joe McDonagh Cup Round 4) • Josh Connolly McGee (Donegal) 3–2 v Tyrone (Christy Ring Cup Round 3) • Andrew Kilcullen (Sligo) 4–7 vs Fermanagh (Nicky Rackard Cup Round 3) • Seán Canning (Roscommon) 3–2 vs Louth (Nicky Rackard Cup Round 5) • Alan Connolly (Cork) 3–2 vs Dublin (All-Ireland Semi-Final) == Miscellaneous ==

• Clare, the All-Ireland holders, failed to qualify for the All-Ireland series. This hadn't happened since 2014, when Clare, also as holders, were knocked out in the qualifiers. The same happened to Clare in 1996, when they lost their only game. The last non-Clare All-Ireland holders to fail to reach the All-Ireland series were Kilkenny in 1994. • Kildare played in the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship for the first time since 2004. It is their first time playing in the knockout stage since 1989. • Limerick failed to reach the semi-final stage for the first time since 2017. • The Big Three all reached the semi-finals for the first time since 2014. • Kilkenny failed to win the All-Ireland for the tenth year in a row, the longest wait for a title in their history ever since they won their first All-Ireland SHC in 1904, surpassing the nine-year losing streaks of 1923–31 and 1948–56. • The 8th All-Ireland win a row for a Munster county. This is close to the record, which is 11-in-a-row (1890 to 1900). • The 7–26 (47 points) scored by in the semi-final is the second- or third-highest amount scored by any team in an All-Ireland semi-final; the other two are: • , who scored 12–17 (53 points) against in the 1954 semi-final • , who scored about 3–44 (53 points) against Antrim in the 1900 semi-final. However, this scoreline is only an estimate; Galway led by 25 points at half-time and reporters present did not keep an accurate tally of score. • Cork were the first team to score 7 goals in an All-Ireland semi-final since 1986, when the previous team to do so was also Cork. == Live television coverage ==

RTÉ, 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. ==Awards==

;Sunday Game Team of the Year 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 Óg Cusack, Joe Canning, Henry Shefflin, and Ursula Jacob also chose Jake Morris as the Sunday game player of the year. • 1. Rhys Shelly (Tipperary) • 2. Robert Doyle (Tipperary) • 3. Huw Lawlor (Kilkenny) • 4. Seán O’Donoghue (Cork) • 5. Eoghan Connolly (Tipperary) • 6. Ronan Maher (Tipperary) • 7. Ciarán Joyce (Cork) • 8. Darragh Fitzgibbon (Cork) • 9. Cathal Mannion (Galway) • 10. Jake Morris (Tipperary) • 11. Andrew Ormond (Tipperary) • 12. Cian O’Sullivan (Dublin) • 13. Martin Keoghan (Kilkenny) • 14. John McGrath (Tipperary) • 15. Brian Hayes (Cork) ;All Star Team of the Year On 6 November, the All-Star winners were announced. The awards ceremony was held at the RDS on 7 November. ==Attendances==

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. ==See also==