Derry Senior Hurling Championship

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Derry Senior Hurling Championship
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Current event clock.svg 2024 Derry Senior Hurling Championship
Colours of Derry.svg
Irish Craobh Shinsear Iomána Dhoire
Code Hurling
Founded1887
Region Colours of Derry.svg Derry (GAA)
TrophyFr Collins Cup [1]
No. of teams8
Title holders Colours of Galway.svg Slaughtneil (18th title)
Most titles Colours of Sligo.svg Kevin Lynch's (23 titles)
SponsorsMcGurk Chartered Architects [1]

The Derry Senior Hurling Championship is an annual hurling competition contested by top-tier Derry GAA clubs. The Derry County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association has organised it since 1887.

Contents

Slaughtneil are the title holders, defeating Banagher in the Final in October 2024 to win their twelfth title in a row.

Honours

The trophy presented to the winners is the Fr Collins Cup. [1]

The winners qualify to represent their county in the Ulster Senior Club Hurling Championship. The winners can, in turn, go on to play in the All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship.

Slaughtneil are the only Derry team to have ever won the Ulster Senior Club Hurling Championship lifting the Four Seasons Cup in 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021 and 2024 [2]

Format

Group stage

The 8 teams in the Derry Hurling Championship are divided into two groups of four. [3] Over the course of the group stage, each team plays once against the others in the group, resulting in each team being guaranteed at least three games. Two points are awarded for a win, one for a draw and zero for a loss. The teams are ranked in the group stage table by points gained, then scoring difference and then their head-to-head record.

Knockout stage

Senior final: The top teams in each group contest the senior final.

Intermediate final: The second-placed teams in each group contest the intermediate final.

Junior final: The third-placed teams in each group contest the junior final.

Qualification

At the end of the championship, the winning team qualify to the subsequent Ulster Senior Club Hurling Championship.

Teams

2024 Teams

8 teams will compete in the 2024 Derry Senior Hurling Championship.

TeamLocationColoursPosition in 2024 Championship titlesLast championship title
Colours of Galway.svg Ballinascreen Draperstown Maroon and whiteJunior champions31939
Colours of Galway.svg Banagher Feeny / Park Maroon and whiteRunners-up32005
Colours of Galway.svg Eoghan Rua Coleraine Maroon and greenGroup Stage0
Colours of Sligo.svg Kevin Lynch's Dungiven White and blackIntermediate runners-up232011
Colours of Kilkenny.svg Lavey Lavey Orange and blackJunior runners-up182010
StFinbarrs.png Na Magha Derry Green, white, and blackGroup stage0
Colours of Galway.svg Slaughtneil Slaughtneil Maroon and whiteChampions18 2024
Colours of Limerick.svg Swatragh Swatragh Green and whiteIntermediate Champions12012

List of finals

Legend

List of Derry SHC finals

YearWinnersRunners-up
ClubScoreClubScore
2024 Slaughtneil 0-16 Banagher 0-04
2023 [4] Slaughtneil 3-23 Kevin Lynch's 1-09
2022 [5] Slaughtneil 2-18 Kevin Lynch's 1-08
2021 [6] Slaughtneil 1-17 Kevin Lynch's 2-09
2020 Slaughtneil 0-23 Kevin Lynch's 0-11
2019 [7] Slaughtneil 1-23 Kevin Lynch's 2-12
2018 Slaughtneil 2-12 Banagher 0-10
2017 [8] Slaughtneil 2-18 Banagher 0-14
2016 [9] Slaughtneil 2-19 Banagher 1-12
2015 [10] Slaughtneil 5-26 Swatragh 1-05
2014 [11] Slaughtneil 2-11 Kevin Lynch's 2-09
2013 [12] Slaughtneil 4-13 Ballinascreen 2-11
2012 [13] Swatragh 2-10 Banagher 1-07
2011 Kevin Lynch's 5-11 Lavey 1-07
2010 Lavey 3-10 Kevin Lynch's 0-11
2009 Kevin Lynch's 2-15 Slaughtneil 1-13
2008, Kevin Lynch's 1-12 Swatragh 0-12
2007 Kevin Lynch's 2-17 Banagher 1-11
2006 Kevin Lynch's 3-12 Banagher 2-14
2005 Banagher 2-09 Kevin Lynch's 1-11
2004 Kevin Lynch's 4-09 Slaughtneil 1-09
2003 Kevin Lynch's Ballinascreen
2002 Lavey 1-12 Slaughtneil 0-07
2001 Lavey 3-18 Banagher 2-11
2000 Slaughtneil 1-14 Banagher 2-08
1999 Lavey Kevin Lynch's
1998 Kevin Lynch's Slaughtneil
1997 Lavey Ballinascreen
1996 Kevin Lynch's Banagher
1995 Lavey Slaughtneil
1994 Lavey Slaughtneil
1993 Slaughtneil Lavey
1992 Lavey Slaughtneil
1991 Lavey Kevin Lynch's
1990 Lavey Drum
1989 Kevin Lynch's Ballinascreen
1988 Lavey Ballinascreen
1987 Kevin Lynch's Ballinascreen
1986 Lavey Kevin Lynch's
1985 Lavey Kevin Lynch's
1984 Kevin Lynch's Ballinascreen
1983 Kevin Lynch's
1982 Kevin Lynch's
1981 Kevin Lynch's
1980 Banagher
1979 Kevin Lynch's
1978 Banagher
1977 Kevin Lynch's
1976 Kevin Lynch's Ballinascreen
1975 Kevin Lynch's
1974 Kevin Lynch's
1973 Kevin Lynch's
1972 Kevin Lynch's
1970–1971No competition
1969 Slaughtneil
1968 Slaughtneil
1967 Kevin Lynch's
1966 Slaughtneil
1965 Slaughtneil
1964 St Finbarr's, Loup
1963 St Finbarr's, Loup
1962 Lavey
1949–1961No competition
1948 Lavey
1947No competition
1946 Lavey Kevin Barry's, Derry
1945Mitchels Coleraine
1944 Lavey Sarsfields, Derry
1943Mitchels Coleraine Lavey
1941–1942No competition
1940 Lavey
1939 Ballinascreen
1938 Ballinascreen
1937Aileach
1935–1936No competition
1934Sarsfields, Derry
1933Sarsfields, Derry
1932No competition
1931 [14] Burt 4-00Gaels1-02
1930 Burt
1907–1929No competition
1906Éire Óg
1905St Patrick's, Waterside
1892–1904No competition
1891St Patrick's, Waterside
1890No competition
1889Hibernians
1887 Ballinascreen

Notes

Roll of honour

By club

#ClubTitlesRunners-upChampionship winsChampionships runner-up
1 Colours of Sligo.svg Kevin Lynch's 23121967, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1987, 1989, 1996, 1998, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 20111985, 1986, 1991, 1999, 2005, 2010, 2014, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
2 Colours of Galway.svg Slaughtneil 1871965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1993, 2000, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, [6] 2022, 2023, 20241992, 1994, 1995, 1998, 2002, 2004, 2009
Colours of Kilkenny.svg Lavey 1831940, 1944, 1946, 1948, 1962, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2002, 20101943, 1993, 2011
4 Colours of Galway.svg Banagher 3101978, 1980, 20051996, 2000, 2001, 2006, 2007, 2012, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2024
Colours of Galway.svg Ballinascreen 381887, 1938, 19391976, 1984, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1997, 2003, 2013
6Sarsfields Derry211933, 19341944
Colours of Clare.svg Burt ††201930, 1931
St Patrick's, Waterside201891, 1905
Mitchels Coleraine201943, 1945
Colours of Limerick.svg St Finbarr's Loup 201963, 1964
11 Colours of Limerick.svg Swatragh 1220122008, 2015
Hibernians101889
Éire Óg101906
Aileach101937
15Gaels011931
Kevin Barry’s011946
Drum011990

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