1900 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship

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1900 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
Championship details
Dates12 May 1901 - 26 October 1902
All-Ireland champions
Winning team Tipperary (6th win)
Captain Ned Hayes
All-Ireland Finalists
Losing team London
Captain Dan Horgan
Provincial champions
Munster Tipperary
Leinster Kilkenny
Ulster Antrim
Connacht Galway
Championship statistics
All-Star Team See here
1899
1901

The 1900 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship was the 14th staging of the All-Ireland hurling championship since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1887. The championship began on 12 May 1901 and ended on 26 October 1902.

Contents

Tipperary were the defending champions, and retained their title following a 2-5 to 0-6 defeat of London in the final. [1]

Format

All-Ireland Championship

Semi-final: (2 matches) The four provincial representatives make up the semi-final pairings. Two teams are eliminated at this stage while the two winning teams advance to the home final.

Home final: (1 match) The winners of the two semi-finals contest this game. One team is eliminated while the winning team advances to the final.

Final: (1 match) The winners of the home final and London, who receive a bye to this stage of the championship, contest this game. The winners are declared All-Ireland champions.

Provincial championships

Connacht Senior Hurling Championship

Final

Galway 4-2 – 1-2 Sligo

Leinster Senior Hurling Championship

Semi-final

9 March 1902Semi-final Offaly 1-05 – 3-03 Kilkenny Abbeyleix Sportsfield

Final

25 August 1901Final Kilkenny 4-11 – 4-10 Dublin Wexford Sportsfield

Munster Senior Hurling Championship

Quarter-finals

20 October 1901Quarter-final Limerick 1-07 3-07 Clare Markets Field
3 November 1901Quarter-final Tipperary 0-12 0-09 Cork Fraher Field

Semi-finals

10 November 1901Semi-final Kerry w/o scr. Waterford Turner's Cross
23 March 1902Semi-final Tipperary 6-11 1-06 Clare Markets Field

Final

11 May 1902Final Tipperary 6-11 2-01 Kerry Markets Field

All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship

All-Ireland semi-finals

29 June 1902Semi-final Tipperary 1-11 1-08 Kilkenny Carrick-on-Suir
20 July 1902Semi-final Galway about 3-44 0-01 Antrim Terenure

Note: The Galway–Antrim game was so one-sided that reporters present did not record the exact score. It was 3-17 to 0-1 at half-time, and Antrim did not score in the second half. [2]

All-Ireland home final

21 September 1902Home final Tipperary 6-13 1-05 Galway Terenure

All-Ireland final

26 October 1902Final Tipperary 2-05 0-06 London Jones’s Road
Attendance: c. 8,000
Referee: J McCarthy (Kilkenny)

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

See also

References

  1. "All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Roll of Honour". The GAA website. Archived from the original on 5 September 2011. Retrieved 26 July 2011.
  2. The Complete Handbook of Gaelic Games: FULL GAA RECORDS FROM 1887 TO 2021 INCLUSIVE (PDF). Blackrock: DBA Publications Limited. 2021. p. 5. Retrieved 7 July 2025.

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