Leinster Minor Hurling Championship

Leinster Minor Hurling Championship

Founded	1928
Region	Leinster (GAA)
Number of teams	10
Current champions	Dublin (15th title)
Television broadcasters	TG4
Website	Official website

The Leinster Minor Hurling Championship is an annual hurling competition organised by the Leinster Council of the Gaelic Athletic Association since 1928 for the county teams in the province of Leinster in Ireland. As one of the four provincial championships, it is a component of the most prestigious national competition for this age group, the All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship. The winners of the Leinster final, like their counterparts in the Munster Championship, are rewarded by advancing directly to the semi-final stage of the All-Ireland series of games. The losers of the Leinster final enter the All-Ireland series at the quarter-final stage.

The championship is currently sponsored by Electric Ireland and is therefore officially known as the Electric Ireland Leinster GAA Hurling Minor Championship.^[1] The current (2014) title holders are Kilkenny, who defeated Dublin at Croke Park on 6 July 2014.

The series of games are played during the summer months with the Leinster final currently being played on the second Sunday in July. The minor final provides the curtain-raiser to the senior final. The prize for the winning team is the Hanrahan Cup. The championship had always been played on a straight knock-out basis whereby once a team lost they are eliminated from the series; however, in recent years the championship has expanded to include a first-round losers' group.

Ten teams currently participate in the Leinster Championship, including the most successful team in terms of minor hurling, namely Kilkenny. They have won the provincial title on 53 occasions during its history while they have also claimed 20 All-Ireland titles.

The title has been won at least once by six of the eleven Leinster counties, five of which have won the title more than once. The all-time record-holders are Kilkenny, who have won the competition 53 times.

Trophy

At the end of the Leinster final, the winning team is presented with a trophy. The Hanrahan Cup is named after Walter Hanrahan (Wexford), the first Secretary of the Leinster Council.^[2]

General statistics

Performance by county

	County	Won	Runner-up	Years won	Years runner-up
1	Kilkenny	56	16	1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1935, 1936,1937, 1939, 1942, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951,1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2015	1928, 1929, 1941, 1945, 1947, 1952, 1954, 1963. 1964, 1968, 1970, 1985, 1987, 1989, 2007, 2011
2	Dublin	15	23	1928, 1938, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1965, 1983, 2005, 2007, 2011, 2012, 2016	1932, 1933, 1934, 1936, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1942, 1949, 1951, 1961, 1967, 1969, 1974, 1975, 1980, 1993, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2010, 2014, 2015
3	Wexford	7	25	1963, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1970, 1980, 1985	1955, 1956, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1965, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1976, 1977, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1992, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2016
4	Offaly	4	9	1986, 1987, 1989, 2000	1948, 1950, 1957, 1982, 1988, 1994, 1995, 1997, 2003
	Laois	4	11	1934, 1940, 1941, 1964	1930, 1935, 1938, 1940, 1946, 1953, 1958, 1966, 1978, 1990, 1991, 2013
6	Meath	1	1	1929	1931
7	Carlow	0	1		2006
	Antrim	0	1		1979

Biggest Leinster final wins

• The most one sided Leinster finals:
  • 29 points – 1974: Kilkenny 8-19 (43) – (14) 3-5 Dublin
  • 27 points – 1972: Kilkenny 7-10 (31) – (4) 0-4 Wexford
  • 26 points – 2006: Kilkenny 4-22 (34) – (8) 1-5 Carlow
  • 25 points – 1971: Kilkenny 7-18 (39) – (14) 3-5 Wexford
  • 25 points – 1946: Dublin 7-5 (26) – (1) 0-1 Laois
  • 25 points – 1935: Kilkenny 7-8 (29) – (4) 1-1 Laois

Miscellaneous

• Kilkenny hold the record for the longest streak of success. For ten championship seasons between 1990 and 1999 the county failed to lose a game and won ten Leinster titles in-a-row.
• Kilkenny hold the record for the most consecutive appearances in Leinster finals. They played in twelve in a row between 1968 and 1979, with success coming on ten of those occasions.
• Four counties have completed the minor and senior double in the same year:
  • Kilkenny in 1931, 1932, 1933, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1939, 1950, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1982, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010
  • Dublin in 1928, 1938, 1952
  • Wexford in 1968, 1970
  • Offaly in 1989

List of Leinster Finals

1. Kilkenny were disqualified from the championship due to their registration not being in order.
2. Laois were awarded the title following an objection.

References

External links

• All-time roll of honour
• 2012 Leinster Minor Hurling Championship fixtures
• Complete Roll of Honour on Kilkenny GAA bible