Munster Senior Hurling Championship records and statistics

This page details statistics of the Munster Senior Hurling Championship.

By decade
The most successful team of each decade, judged by number of Munster Senior Hurling Championship titles, is as follows:


 * 1890s: 4 each for Colours_of_Cork.svg Cork (1890-92-93-94) and Tipperary (1895-96-98-99)
 * 1900s: 6 for Colours_of_Cork.svg Cork (1901-02-03-04-05-07)
 * 1910s: 3 each for Colours_of_Limerick.svg Limerick (1910-11-18), Colours_of_Cork.svg Cork (1912-15-19) and Colours_of_Tipperary.png Tipperary (1913-16-17)
 * 1920s: 5 for Colours_of_Cork.svg Cork (1920-26-27-28-29)
 * 1930s: 4 for Colours_of_Limerick.svg Limerick (1933-34-35-36)
 * 1940s: 5 for Colours_of_Cork.svg Cork (1942-43-44-46-47)
 * 1950s: 4 for Colours_of_Cork.svg Cork (1952-53-54-56)
 * 1960s: 7 for Colours_of_Tipperary.png Tipperary (1960-61-62-64-65-67-68)
 * 1970s: 7 for Colours_of_Cork.svg Cork (1970-72-75-76-77-78-79)
 * 1980s: 5 for Colours_of_Cork.svg Cork (1982-83-84-85-86)
 * 1990s: 3 each for Colours_of_Clare.svg Clare (1995-97-98) and Colours_of_Cork.svg Cork (1990-92-99)
 * 2000s: 4 for Colours_of_Cork.svg Cork (2000-03-05-06)
 * 2010s: 4 for Colours_of_Tipperary.png Tipperary (2011-12-15-16)
 * 2020s: 5 for Colours_of_Limerick.svg Limerick (2020-21-22-23-24)

Finishing positions

 * Most championships
 * 54, Colours_of_Cork.svg Cork (1888, 1890, 1892, 1893, 1894, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1907, 1912, 1915, 1919, 1920, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1931, 1939, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1946, 1947, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1956, 1966, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1990, 1992, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2014, 2017, 2018)


 * Most second-place finishes
 * 30, Colours_of_Cork.svg Cork (1896, 1897, 1898, 1906, 1909, 1910, 1913, 1914, 1916, 1921, 1932, 1940, 1941, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1964, 1965, 1968, 1980, 1987, 1988, 1991, 2004, 2010, 2013)
 * Most third-place finishes
 * 3, Colours_of_Cork.svg Cork (2019, 2022, 2024)
 * Most fourth-place finishes
 * 2, Colours_of_Waterford.svg Waterford (2022, 2024)
 * Most fifth-place finishes
 * 3, Colours_of_Waterford.svg Waterford (2018, 2019, 2023)

Biggest wins

 * The most one sided Munster finals since 1896 when goals were made equal to three points:
 * 31 points – 1918: Limerick 11-03 – 1-02 Clare
 * 31 points – 1982: Cork 5-31 – 3-06 Waterford
 * 28 points – 1893: Cork 5-13 – 0-00 Limerick
 * 27 points – 1903: Cork 5-16 – 1-01 Waterford
 * 26 points – 1905: Cork 7-12 – 1-04 Limerick
 * 23 points – 1899: Tipperary 5-16 – 0-08 Clare
 * 22 points – 1900: Tipperary 6-11 – 2-01 Kerry
 * 22 points – 1972: Cork 6-18 – 2-08 Clare
 * 21 points – 2016: Tipperary 5-19 (34) – (13 0-13 Waterford
 * 21 points – 1896: Tipperary 7-09 – 2-03 Cork
 * 21 points – 2011: Tipperary 7-19 – 0-19 Waterford
 * 20 points – 1962: Tipperary 5-14 – 2-03 Waterford
 * 19 points – 1915: Cork 8-02 – 2-01 Clare
 * 19 points – 1983: Cork 3-22 – 0-12 Waterford
 * 18 points – 1993: Tipperary 3-27 – 2-12 Clare
 * 18 points – 1965: Tipperary 4-11 – 0-05 Cork
 * The most one sided games from the semi-final and quarter-final stages of the championship:
 * 42 points – 1923: Cork 13-04 – 0-01 Waterford
 * 41 points – 1904: Tipperary 8-21 – 0-04 Waterford
 * 34 points – 2000: Cork 2-32 – 0-04 Kerry
 * 34 points – 1953: Clare 10-08 – 1-01 Limerick
 * 32 points – 1960: Tipperary 10-09 – 2-01 Limerick

Successful defending
Only 4 teams of the 6 who have won the Munster championship have ever successfully defended the title. These are:
 * Colours_of_Cork.svg Cork on 27 attempts out of 50 (1893, 1894, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1920, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1943, 1944, 1947, 1953, 1954, 1970, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 2000, 2006, 2018)
 * Colours_of_Tipperary.png Tipperary on 16 attempts out of 40 (1896, 1899, 1900, 1909, 1917, 1925, 1950, 1951, 1961, 1962, 1965, 1968, 1988, 1989, 2009, 2012)
 * Colours_of_Limerick.svg Limerick on 11 attempts out of 24 (1911, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1974, 1981, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
 * Colours_of_Clare.svg Clare on 1 attempt out of 6 (1998)

The most consecutive titles is 6 in a row, achieved by just one county:
 * Colours_of_Limerick.svg Limerick in 2019–24

Gaps

 * Top ten longest gaps between successive Munster titles:


 * 63 years: Colours_of_Clare.svg Clare (1932-1995)
 * 39 years: Colours_of_Waterford.svg Waterford (1963-2002)
 * 25 years: Colours_of_Clare.svg Clare (1889-1914)
 * 18 years: Colours_of_Limerick.svg Limerick (1955-1973)
 * 18 years: Colours_of_Clare.svg Clare (1914-1932)
 * 17 years: Colours_of_Limerick.svg Limerick (1996-2013)
 * 16 years: Colours_of_Tipperary.png Tipperary (1971-1987)
 * 15 years: Colours_of_Limerick.svg Limerick (1940-1955)
 * 13 years: Colours_of_Limerick.svg Limerick (1981-1994)
 * 13 years: Colours_of_Limerick.svg Limerick (1897-1910)
 * Top ten longest gaps between successive Munster finals:


 * 22 years: Colours_of_Waterford.svg Waterford (1903-1925)
 * 18 years: Colours_of_Clare.svg Clare (1938-1955)
 * 16 years: Colours_of_Waterford.svg Waterford (1966-1982)
 * 15 years: Colours_of_Limerick.svg Limerick (1956-1971)
 * 13 years: Colours_of_Clare.svg Clare (1901-1914)
 * 12 years: Colours_of_Clare.svg Clare (1955-1967)
 * 11 years: Colours_of_Tipperary.png Tipperary (1973-1984)
 * 11 years: Colours_of_Limerick.svg Limerick (1981-1992)
 * 10 years: Colours_of_Clare.svg Clare (1889-1899)
 * 10 years: Colours_of_Limerick.svg Limerick (1924-1934)

Active Gaps

 * Longest active gaps since last title:
 * 133 years: Colours_of_Kerry_GAA.svg Kerry (1891–)
 * 26 years: Colours_of_Clare.svg Clare (1998–)
 * 14 years: Colours_of_Waterford.svg Waterford (2010–)
 * 8 years: Colours_of_Tipperary.svg Tipperary (2016–)
 * 6 years: Colours_of_Cork.svg Cork (2018–)


 * Longest active gaps since last championship final appearance:
 * 116 years: Colours_of_Kerry_GAA.svg Kerry (1908–)
 * 6 years: Colours_of_Cork.svg Cork (2018–)
 * 4 years: Colours_of_Waterford.svg Waterford (2020–)
 * 3 years: Colours_of_Tipperary.svg Tipperary (2021–)


 * Longest active gap since last championship appearance:
 * 55 years: Colours_of_Galway.svg Galway (1969–)
 * 20 years: Colours_of_Kerry_GAA.svg Kerry (2004–)

Longest undefeated run

 * Colours_of_Cork.svg Cork (15 matches): Cork's run began with a 1-19 to 2-8 win against Tipperary in the quarter-final of the 1982 championship and finished with a 1-18 apiece draw with Tipperary in the Munster final of the 1987 championship. The 15-game unbeaten streak, which included just one drawn game, ended with a 4-22 to 1-22 extra-time loss to Tipperary in the replay of the 1987 Munster final.
 * Colours_of_Limerick.svg Limerick (15 matches): As of 11 June 2023, Limerick are currently unbeaten in 15 Munster Championship games, a run that started in the 2019 Munster Final on 30 June 2019.

All time
This is a list of players who have scored a cumulative total of 100 points or more in the Munster Championship.

Other records

 * Winners of Munster medals on the field of play in each of three decades:
 * Paddy Ahern of Cork: 1919, 1920, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1931
 * Tommy Doyle of Tipperary: 1937, 1942, 1945, 1949, 1950, 1951
 * Jimmy Doyle of Tipperary: 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1971
 * Ray Cummins of Cork: 1969, 1970, 1972, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1982
 * Declan Ryan of Tipperary: 1988, 1989, 1991, 1993, 2001