2020 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship


The 2020 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship is due to be the 133rd staging of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county hurling tournament, since its establishment in 1887. The 2020 fixtures were announced in October 2019.
If staged as planned, Laois are to return to the Leinster Championship for the first time since 2017, replacing Carlow who were relegated in 2019.
Tipperary are the defending champions and attempting to retain the title for the first time since 1965.
The championship was scheduled to begin on 9 May 2020; however, the competition was postponed indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Ireland.
The championship will now begin in October with the All-Ireland final scheduled for the 13 December.

Competition format

Initially, the 2020 All-Ireland hurling championship format was to feature five-team groups in both Leinster and Munster and the two Joe McDonagh Cup finalists in the format introduced in 2018 for an initial three-year period. At the GAA Congress on 29 February 2019 it was decided to expand the Leinster Hurling Championship from five to six teams, beginning in 2021. This meant there would be no relegation from the Leinster Hurling Championship in 2020 and that the winners of the Joe McDonagh Cup would be promoted.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Ireland, some changes were announced on 26 June 2020. The format reverted to knockout provincial championships, along with qualifiers, similar to the 2017 format. The two Joe McDonagh Cup finalists did not compete in the senior championship.
The draws for the Munster and Leinster Senior Hurling Championships took place live on RTÉ's Six One news on Friday 26 June.

Teams

Stadiums and locations

TeamStadiumLocationCapacity
Croke ParkJones' Road
ClareCusack ParkEnnis
CorkPáirc Uí ChaoimhBallintemple
DublinParnell ParkDonnycarney
GalwayPearse StadiumSalthill
KilkennyUPMC Nowlan ParkO'Loughlin Road
LaoisO'Moore ParkPortlaoise
LimerickLIT Gaelic GroundsEnnis Road
TipperarySemple StadiumThurles
WaterfordWalsh ParkSlievekeale Road
WexfordInnovate Wexford ParkClonard Road

Personnel and general information

Provincial Championships

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Leinster Senior Hurling Championship

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Five of the six Munster counties participate. Kerry compete in the Joe McDonagh Cup. The competition is entirely knock-out.

Munster Senior Hurling Championship

All-Ireland Qualifiers

Of the six teams who don’t reach their provincial final four are drawn, two from Leinster versus two from Munster, to play in round one of the qualifiers, subject to the requirement that the two beaten provincial quarter-finalists play in round one. The two teams given byes play the round one winners in round two.
The winners of round two compete in the two All-Ireland quarter-finals against the beaten Leinster and Munster finalists.

Qualifiers Round 1

Qualifiers Round 2

All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship

All-Ireland quarter-finals

All-Ireland semi-finals

All-Ireland final