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All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship 1985

1985 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
All-Ireland champions
Winning team Offaly (2nd win)
Captain Pat Fleury
Manager Dermot Healy
Provincial champions
Munster Cork
Leinster Offaly
Ulster Antrim
Connacht Not Played
Championship statistics
Player of the Year Eugene Coughlan
All-Star Team See here
1984
1986

The All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship of 1985 was the 99th edition of Ireland’s premier hurling knockout competition. The championship ran from May to September of that year, culminating with the All-Ireland final, held at Croke Park, Dublin on 1 September. The match was contested by Offaly and Galway, with Offaly taking the title by 2–11 to 1–12. It was Offaly's second-ever All-Ireland title.

The All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship was run on a provincial basis as usual. All games were played on a knockout basis whereby once a team lost they were eliminated from the championship. The format for the All-Ireland series of games ran as follows:


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