All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship records and statistics

This page details statistics of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship.

The most successful team of each decade, judged by number of All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship titles, is as follows:

Between 1887 and 1996 the championship was played on a straight knock out format whereby the All-Ireland champions were the only undefeated team of the competition. The introduction of the qualifier system in 1997 has resulted in five 'back-door' All-Ireland champions:

On a number of occasions teams have been defeated twice but have remained in the championship:

Only one county has appeared in the final once, being victorious on that occasion:

When a county won its first All Ireland before losing a final at a later time

On the opposite end of the scale, only one county has appeared in the final more than once, losing on each occasion:

Although not an officially recognised achievement, a number of teams have achieved the distinction of winning the All-Ireland championship, their provincial championship and the National Hurling League:

Only 5 teams of the 13 who have won the All-Ireland championship have ever successfully defended the title. These are:

The record for the longest unbeaten run stands at 21 games held by Kilkenny. It began with a 1-23 to 1-9 win against Westmeath in their opening game of the 2006 championship and finished with a 3-22 to 0-19 win against Cork in the All-Ireland semi-final of the 2010 championship. The 21 game unbeaten streak, which included no drawn game, ended with a 4-17 to 1-18 loss to Tipperary in the 2010 All-Ireland final.

This broke the previous record of 16 consecutive games unbeaten by Tipperary, which began in May 1949 with a victory in the opening round of the championship, and ended with a seventeen-point defeat of Waterford in the Munster semi-final of the 1952 championship. The 16 game unbeaten streak, which included 15 wins and one draw, ended with a 1-11 to 2-6 loss to Cork in the subsequent Munster final.

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