1940 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
All-Ireland Champions | |
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Winning team | Limerick (6th win) |
Captain | Mick Mackey |
All-Ireland Finalists | |
Losing team | Kilkenny |
Captain | Jim Langton |
Provincial Champions | |
Munster | Limerick |
Leinster | Kilkenny |
Ulster | Not Played |
Connacht | Not Played |
Championship statistics | |
Top Scorer |
Ted O'Sullivan (7-0) Jackie Power (5-6) |
All-Star Team | See here |
← 1939 1941 → |
The All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship 1940 was the 54th series of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Ireland's premier hurling knock-out competition. Limerick won the championship, beating Kilkenny 3-7 to 1-7 in the final at Croke Park, Dublin.
Format
The All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship was run on a provincial basis as usual. All games were played on a knockout basis whereby once a team lost they were eliminated from the championship. The format for the All-Ireland series of games ran as follows:
- The winners of the Leinster Championship advanced directly to the All-Ireland final.
- The winners of the Munster Championship advanced directly to a lone All-Ireland semi-final.
- Galway, a team who faced no competition in the Connacht Championship, entered the championship at the All-Ireland semi-final stage where they played the Munster champions.
- There were no representatives from the Ulster Championship in the All-Ireland series.
Results
Leinster Senior Hurling Championship
First round | Offaly | 3-4 - 4-8 | Laois | |||
First round | Westmeath | 5-7 - 2-1 | Meath | |||
Second round | Offaly | 2-4 - 2-5 | Westmeath | |||
Quarter-final | Westmeath | 2-5 - 2-4 | Wexford | |||
Semi-final | Dublin | 2-8 - 1-8 | Laois | |||
Semi-final | Kilkenny | 3-16 - 1-5 | Westmeath | |||
Final | Kilkenny | 3-6 - 2-5 | Dublin | |||
Munster Senior Hurling Championship
Quarter-final | Cork | 6-3 - 2-6 | Tipperary | |||
Quarter-final | Limerick | 4-2 - 3-5 | Waterford | |||
Quarter-final replay | Limerick | 3-5 - 3-3 | Waterford | |||
Semi-final | Cork | 7-6 - 3-5 | Clare | |||
Final | Limerick | 4-3 - 3-6 | Cork | |||
Final replay | Limerick | 3-3 - 2-4 | Cork | |||
All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
Semi-final 11 August | Limerick | 3-6 - 0-5 | Galway | Cusack Park | ||
Final 1 September | Limerick | 3-7 - 1-7 | Kilkenny | Croke Park | ||
Sources
- Corry, Eoghan, The GAA Book of Lists (Hodder Headline Ireland, 2005).
- Donegan, Des, The Complete Handbook of Gaelic Games (DBA Publications Limited, 2005).