2024 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship

The 2024 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship is the 137th staging of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county hurling tournament, since its establishment in 1887.

The 2024 championship began with provincial tournaments in April and will end with the All-Ireland Final on 21 July.

Limerick entered the championship as defending champions, having won the previous four championships. They were attempting to be the first team in history to win five-in-a-row, a feat never achieved in hurling. This had previously been attempted by Cork in 1945 and Kilkenny in 2010, both thwarted by Tipperary.

The All-Ireland final was played on 21 July 2024 at Croke Park in Dublin, between Clare and Cork. Clare won the game by 3–29 to 1–34 to claim their fifth title.

Leinster Championship
Participating counties (6): Antrim, Carlow, Dublin, Galway, Kilkenny, Wexford

Group stage (15 matches): Each team plays each other once. The 1st and 2nd placed teams advance to the Leinster final and the 3rd placed team advances to the all-Ireland preliminary quarter-finals. All other teams are eliminated from the championship and the bottom placed team will be relegated to the 2025 Joe McDonagh Cup.

Final (1 match): The top 2 teams in the group stage contest this game. The Leinster champions advance to the All-Ireland semi-finals and the Leinster runners-up advance to the All-Ireland quarter-finals.

Munster Championship
Participating counties (5): Clare, Cork, Limerick, Tipperary, Waterford

Group stage (10 matches): Each team plays each other once. The 1st and 2nd placed teams advance to the Munster final and the 3rd placed team advances to the all-Ireland preliminary quarter-finals. All other teams are eliminated from the championship.

Final (1 match): The top 2 teams in the group stage contest this game. The Munster champions advance to the All-Ireland semi-finals and the Munster runners-up advance to the All-Ireland quarter-finals.

Joe McDonagh Cup
Participating counties (6): Down, Kerry, Laois, Meath, Offaly, Westmeath

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 the 2025 Christy Ring Cup.

Final (1 match): The top 2 teams in the group stage contest this game. The Joe McDonagh Cup champions and runners-up advance to the All-Ireland preliminary quarter-finals.

All-Ireland Championship
Preliminary quarter-finals (2 matches): The 3rd placed teams from the Leinster and Munster championships play the Joe McDonagh Cup champions and runners-up. Two teams are eliminated at this stage while the winners advance to the quarter-finals.

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.

To Championship
Promoted from the Christy Ring Cup


 * Meath

From Championship
Relegated to the Christy Ring Cup


 * Kildare

General information
Seventeen counties will compete 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.

Leinster Final

 * Kilkenny advance to the All-Ireland semi-finals and Dublin advance to the All-Ireland quarter-finals

Munster Final

 * Limerick advance to the All-Ireland semi-finals and Clare advance to the All-Ireland quarter-finals

Joe McDonagh Cup
(Q) : Qualified for final, and preliminary All-Ireland quarterfinal. (C) : Champion and promoted. (R): Relegated

Final

 * Laois and Offaly qualify to the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship preliminary quarter-finals.
 * Joe McDonagh Cup winners Offaly are also promoted to the 2025 Leinster Senior Hurling Championship.

Other cups
(C) : Champion and promoted.

Scoring events

 * Widest winning margin: 32 points
 * Kilkenny 5-30 - 0-13 Antrim (Leinster round 1)
 * Most goals in a match: 7
 * Offaly 3-19 - 4-25 Cork (preliminary quarter-final)
 * Most points in a match: 57
 * Cork 1-28 - 0-29 Limerick (All-Ireland semi-final)
 * Most goals by one team in a match: 5
 * Kilkenny 5-30 - 0-13 Antrim (Leinster round 1)
 * Most points by one team in a match: 36
 * Carlow 1-13 - 2-36 Wexford (Leinster round 4)
 * Highest aggregate score: 72 points
 * Cork 3-28 - 3-26 Limerick (Munster round 3)
 * Lowest aggregate score: 45 points
 * Clare 1-18 - 3-15 Limerick (Munster round 1)

Miscellaneous

 * Limerick become the first ever county to win 6 consecutive Munster titles.
 * Nickie Quaid, Declan Hannon, Graeme Mulcahy and David Reidy became the first Limerick players to win seven Munster Championship medals.
 * Clare become the third ever team to lose 3 consecutive Munster finals.
 * failed to win the All-Ireland for the ninth year in a row, equalling their title droughts of 1923–31 and 1948–56.
 * By beating Limerick in the All-Ireland semi final, Cork became the first hurling team to end a five in a row attempt since Tipperary beat Kilkenny in the 2010 All-Ireland final. Previously Tipperary ended Cork's attempt of winning a five in a row during the Munster championship of 1945.
 * Cork's 19th year in a row without an All-Ireland senior title, their longest dry spell since the founding of the championship.

Live televised games
RTÉ, the national broadcaster in Ireland, will provide the majority of the live television coverage of the hurling championship.

For the second year GAAGO will also broadcast matches in Ireland with nine games to be shown exclusively on its pay streaming service.