2020 Leinster Senior Hurling Championship

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Leinster Senior Hurling Championship
Tournament details
Year2020
Teams5
Defending champions Wexford
Winners
Champions Kilkenny (72nd win)
Manager Brian Cody
Qualify for Leinster SHC Final
All-Ireland SHC
Runners-up
Runners-up Galway
Promotion/Relegation
Promoted team(s) Antrim
Other
Matches played11
  2019
2021  

The 2020 Leinster Senior Hurling Championship is the 2020 installment of the annual Leinster Senior Hurling Championship organised by Leinster GAA. [1] Wexford were the defending champions. Originally scheduled to be a round robin competition, due to the suspension caused by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Gaelic games, the provincial competition was switched to a knockout format. [2]

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Teams

Pearse Stadium Pearse Park.jpg
Pearse Stadium

The Leinster championship was contested by four counties from the Irish province of Leinster, as well as one county from the Irish province of Connacht, where the sport is only capable of supporting one county team at this level.

TeamStadiumLocationCapacity
Croke Park Jones' Road 82,300
Dublin Parnell Park Donnycarney 8,500
Galway Pearse Stadium Salthill 26,197
Kilkenny UPMC Nowlan Park O'Loughlin Road 27,000
Laois O'Moore Park Portlaoise 22,000
Wexford Innovate Wexford Park Clonard Road 18,000

Personnel and general information

TeamColoursManagerCaptainVice-captainSponsorMost recent success
All-IrelandProvincialLeague
Dublin Colours of Dublin.svg Mattie Kenny Danny Sutcliffe AIG 1938 2013 2011
Galway Colours of Galway.svg Shane O'Neill Pádraic Mannion Conor Whelan Supermacs 2017 2018 2017
Kilkenny Colours of Kilkenny.svg Brian Cody Colin Fennelly Joey Holden Glanbia 2015 2016 2016
Laois Colours of Laois.svg Eddie Brennan Enda Rowland Willie Dunphy MW Hire Group 1915 1949
Wexford Colours of Wexford.svg Davy Fitzgerald Gain 1996 2019 1972-73

Bracket

Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final
      
Colours of Dublin.svg Dublin 2-31
Colours of Laois.svg Laois 0-23
Colours of Dublin.svg Dublin 2-22
Colours of Kilkenny.svg Kilkenny 3-20
Colours of Kilkenny.svg Kilkenny 2-20
Colours of Galway.svg Galway 0-24
Colours of Galway.svg Galway 1-27
Colours of Wexford.svg Wexford 0-17

Final

14 November 2020
18:15
Final
Kilkenny 2-20 (26)(24) 0-24 Galway
(HT: 0-12 - 0-13)
Gls: TJ Reid 1, R Hogan 1.
Pts: TJ Reid 10 (9fs); R Hogan 2, C Browne 2, M Keogan 2, J Donnelly 1, E Cody 1, P Walsh 1, L Blanchfield 1.

Pts: J Canning 14 (9fs, 1 sideline, 1 65), C Whelan 2, J Coen 2, David Burke 2, C Mannion 1, J Cooney 1, B Concannon 1, J Flynn 1.
Croke Park , Dublin
Referee: F Horgan (Tipperary)

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References

  1. "Leinster Senior Hurling Championship 2020". 5 March 2020.
  2. "2020 Leinster Senior Hurling Championship draw: Holders Wexford take on Galway". irish mirror. Retrieved 31 May 2021.