All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship

All Ireland Senior Camogie Championship
Current season or competition: 2016 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship
Irish	Craobh Shinsir Camógaíochta na hÉireann
Trophy	O'Duffy Cup
Title holders	Kilkenny (13th title)
Most titles	Dublin and Cork (26 titles)
Sponsors	RTÉ Sport

The All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship is a competition for inter-county teams in the women's field sport of game of camogie played in Ireland. The series of games are organised by the Camogie Association and are played during the summer months with the All-Ireland Camogie Final being played on the second Sunday in September in Croke Park, Dublin. The prize for the winning team is the O'Duffy Cup. The current champions are Cork, who claimed their twenty-sixth title thanks to a victory over Galway in Croke Park, Dublin.

Counties participating: The county is a geographical region in Ireland, and each of 29 of the 32 counties in Ireland organises its own camogie affairs. Ten Counties currently participate in the Championship following the promotion of Intermediate champions Limerick at the end of the 2014 season. These are Clare, Cork, Derry, Dublin, Galway, Kilkenny, Limerick, Offaly, Tipperary and Wexford.

The counties participate in a group series with the top four progressing to the All-Ireland Semi-Finals. The eight teams were divided into two groups of four in 2009. In every other year the teams were placed in a single group of between six and eight teams. The first two championships were played on an open draw basis until in 1934 the championship was changed to the traditional quadro-provincial structure traditional to Gaelic games. Following the withdrawal of Connacht from the inter-provincial senior semi-finals the competition changed to an open-draw knockout system in 1974.

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