2012 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
| Championship details | |
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| Dates | 19 May – 30 September 2012 |
| Teams | 14 |
| All-Ireland champions | |
| Winning team | Kilkenny (34th win) |
| Captain | Eoin Larkin |
| Manager | Brian Cody |
| All-Ireland Finalists | |
| Losing team | Galway |
| Captain | Fergal Moore |
| Manager | Anthony Cunningham |
| Provincial champions | |
| Munster | Tipperary |
| Leinster | Galway |
| Ulster | Not Played |
| Connacht | Not Played |
| Championship statistics | |
| No. matches played | 26 |
| Goals total | 96 (3.69 per game) |
| Points total | 894 (34.38 per game) |
| Top Scorer | Henry Shefflin (3–56) |
| All-Star Team | See here |
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The 2012 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship was the 125th staging of the All-Ireland hurling championship since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1887. The draw for the 2012 fixtures took place on 6 October 2011. The championship began on 19 May 2012 and ended on 30 September 2012.
Kilkenny were the defending champions and successfully retained their title following a 3–22 to 3–11 victory over Galway in a replay of the final.
A total of fourteen teams contested the championship, including all of the teams from the 2011 championship. There were no new teams entering the championship.
Laois and Westmeath were the first teams to exit the 2011 championship, however, there was no relegation play-off. Both teams contested the 2012 championship.
Kerry, the winners of the 2011 Christy Ring Cup, declined their automatic right to promotion to the championship. They instead contested the Christy Ring Cup once again.
The All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship of 2012 will be run on a provincial basis as usual. It will be a knockout tournament with pairings drawn at random in the respective provinces – there will be no seeds.
Each match will be played as a single leg. If a match is drawn there will be a replay. If that match ends in a draw a period of extra time will be played, however, if both sides are still level at the end of extra time another replay will take place.
Leinster Championship
Preliminary Round: (2 matches) These will be two matches between four of the 'weaker' teams from the province. The two winning teams will advance to the quarter-finals while the two losing teams will enter the All-Ireland qualifiers.
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