2011 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship

Team changes

To Championship

• Westmeath

From Championship

• None

Teams

General information

Team summaries

Personnel and kits

The Championship

Format

Leinster Senior Hurling Championship

Munster Senior Hurling Championship

All-Ireland Qualifiers

Preliminary round

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

All-Ireland Senior hurling Championship

Bracket

All-Ireland quarter-finals

All-Ireland semi-finals

Stadia and locations

Championship statistics

Scoring

• First goal of the championship: Simon McCrory for Antrim against Laois
• Fastest goal of the season: 20 seconds – Paudie O'Sullivan for Cork against Galway
• Widest winning margin: 34 points
• *Cork 10–20 : Laois 1–13
• Most goals in a match: 11
• *Cork 10–20 : Laois 1–13
• Most points in a match: 45
• *Tipperary 3–22 : Cork 0–23
• *Galway 4–25 : Clare 0–20
• Most goals by one team in a match: 10
• *Cork 10–20 : Laois 1–13
• Most goals scored by a losing team: 3
• *Waterford 3–15 : Limerick 3–14
• *Antrim 1–21 : Laois 3–12
• Most points scored by a losing team: 23
• *Tipperary 3–22 : Cork 0–23

Top scorers

Hat-tricks

Discipline

• First yellow card of the championship: John A. Delaney for Laois against Antrim, 39 minutes
• First red card of the championship: Neil McAuley for Antrim against Laois, '''40 minutes'''

Miscellaneous

• Antrim's defeat of Laois in the preliminary round of the Leinster championship is the team's first ever victory in the provincial series of games.
• The Munster quarter-final meeting of Cork and Tipperary sets a new record as the eighth consecutive year that the sides have met in championship hurling. Previous consecutive meetings stretched from 1949 to 1954 – a total of seven games in six years. Earlier, eight games were played in the seven-year period 1907 to 1913, however, two of those games were played in the calendar year of 1908.
• The Leinster semi-final meeting between Wexford and Kilkenny at Wexford Park is the first championship meeting between the two sides at that venue since the 1944 Leinster semi-final.
• The All-Ireland qualifiers preliminary round meeting between Antrim and Westmeath is the first ever championship meeting between the two sides.
• The All-Ireland qualifiers preliminary round meeting between Laois and Cork is the first championship meeting between the two sides since the 1915 All-Ireland final. Laois are the only team that Cork have played but never beaten in the championship.
• Cork's total of 10–20 against Laois in the preliminary round of the qualifiers is the first time that a side has scored ten goals in the championship since Offaly defeated Westmeath by 10–9 to 2–6 in the 1966 Leinster first round.
• The Leinster semi-final meeting of Galway and Dublin is not only both sides first meeting in the provincial championship but is also the first meeting of the two sides since the 1941 All-Ireland semi-final.
• Dublin preserve their 100% championship record over Galway with a victory in the Leinster semi-final. Previous victories came in the 1924 All-Ireland final and the 1941 All-Ireland semi-final
• Lar Corbett becomes Tipperary's all-time leading championship goalscorer when he scores his 21st goal against Clare in the Munster semi-final.
• For the first time in history Dublin qualify for the provincial minor, under-21 and senior finals in the same year.
• Kilkenny's defeat of Dublin in the Leinster final is their seventh consecutive provincial title and sets a new record. Kilkenny also held the previous record of six-in-a-row between 1998 and 2003.
• Henry Shefflin's goal in the Leinster final made him the only player in history to score a goal in thirteen consecutive championship seasons.
• Tipperary's 7–19 to 0–19 defeat of Waterford is the biggest margin of victory in a Munster final since Cork beat Waterford by 5–31 to 3–6 in the 1982 provincial decider. The 21-point winning margin is joint ninth in the top ten biggest Munster final victories.
• The last time a team scored seven or more goals in a Munster final was in 1936 when Limerick defeated Tipperary by 8–5 to 4–6. Mick Mackey scored 5–3 of their total.
• Brendan Cummins equalled Christy Ring's all-time championship appearances record, joining Ring on 65 appearances for Tipperary in the Munster Final.
• Tony Browne of Waterford becomes the fourth player to achieve at least 60 championship appearances with his appearance against Galway in the All-Ireland quarter-final.
• Dublin's defeat of Limerick in the All-Ireland quarter-final is their first ever championship victory over the Munster team. As a result of this, Dublin reach the All-Ireland semi-final for the first time since 1948.
• Waterford preserve their 100% championship record over Galway with a victory in the All-Ireland quarter-final. They have now beaten the westerners on ten occasions on the championship.
• The All-Ireland semi-final between Kilkenny and Waterford is delayed by fifteen minutes due to the playing of extra time in the All-Ireland minor semi-final between Clare and Galway.
• Kilkenny become the first team ever to reach six consecutive All-Ireland finals.
• Tipperary's Brendan Cummins lines out for the 65th time in championship hurling to become the most "capped" player of all-time in the All-Ireland semi-final against Dublin. After equalling Christy Ring's long-held record in the Munster final he betters it in this game.
• The All-Ireland final between Kilkenny and Tipperary is the third year in-a-row that the sides meet in the championship decider. This is the first time that this has happened since 1903, when Cork and London met in the All-Ireland final for the third consecutive year.
• As a result of Kilkenny's All-Ireland final defeat of Tipperary, Henry Shefflin and Eddie Brennan join Christy Ring and John Doyle as holders of a record eight All-Ireland medals.

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