Derry Senior Hurling Championship

For the Gaelic football equivalent, see Derry Senior Football Championship.
Derry Senior Hurling Championship
Current season or competition:
2024 Derry Senior Hurling Championship
IrishCraobh Shinsear Iomána Dhoire
CodeHurling
Founded1887
Region Derry (GAA)
TrophyFr Collins Cup[1]
No. of teams8
Title holders Slaughtneil (18th title)
Most titles 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.

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.

Team Location Colours Position in 2024 Championship titles Last championship title
Ballinascreen Draperstown Maroon and white Junior champions 3 1939
Banagher Feeny / Park Maroon and white Runners-up 3 2005
Eoghan Rua Coleraine Maroon and green Group Stage 0 —
Kevin Lynch's Dungiven White and black Intermediate runners-up 23 2011
Lavey Lavey Orange and black Junior runners-up 18 2010
Na Magha Derry Green, white, and black Group stage 0 —
Slaughtneil Slaughtneil Maroon and white Champions 18 2024
Swatragh Swatragh Green and white Intermediate Champions 1 2012

List of finals

Legend

List of Derry SHC finals

Year Winners Runners-up
Club Score Club Score
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[1], [2] 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
1970–1971 No 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
1949–1961 No competition
1948 Lavey
1947 No competition
1946 Lavey Kevin Barry's, Derry†
1945 Mitchels Coleraine
1944 Lavey Sarsfields, Derry
1943 Mitchels Coleraine Lavey
1941–1942 No competition
1940 Lavey
1939 Ballinascreen
1938 Ballinascreen
1937 Aileach
1935–1936 No competition
1934 Sarsfields, Derry
1933 Sarsfields, Derry
1932 No competition
1931[14] Burt 4-00 Gaels 1-02
1930 Burt
1907–1929 No competition
1906 Éire Óg
1905 St Patrick's, Waterside†
1892–1904 No competition
1891 St Patrick's, Waterside†
1890 No competition
1889 Hibernians
1887 Ballinascreen

Notes

  • † 1891, 1905: St Patrick's, Waterside is now defunct. It was a club from the Waterside in Derry City.
  • †† 1946: Kevin Barry's is now defunct. It was a club from Derry City.

Roll of honour

By club

# Club Titles Runners-up Championship wins Championships runner-up
1 Kevin Lynch's 23 12 1967†, 1972†, 1973†, 1974†, 1975†, 1976†, 1977†, 1979†, 1981†, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1987, 1989, 1996, 1998, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011 1985, 1986, 1991, 1999, 2005, 2010, 2014, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
2 Slaughtneil 18 7 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1993, 2000, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021,[6] 2022, 2023, 2024 1992, 1994, 1995, 1998, 2002, 2004, 2009
Lavey 18 3 1940, 1944, 1946, 1948, 1962, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2010 1943, 1993, 2011
4 Banagher 3 10 1978, 1980, 2005 1996, 2000, 2001, 2006, 2007, 2012, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2024
Ballinascreen 3 8 1887, 1938, 1939 1976, 1984, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1997, 2003, 2013
6 Sarsfields Derry 2 1 1933, 1934 1944
Burt†† 2 0 1930, 1931 —
St Patrick's, Waterside 2 0 1891, 1905 —
Mitchels Coleraine 2 0 1943, 1945 —
St Finbarr's Loup 2 0 1963, 1964 —
11 Swatragh 1 2 2012 2008, 2015
Hibernians 1 0 1889 —
Éire Óg 1 0 1906 —
Aileach 1 0 1937 —
15 Gaels 0 1 — 1931
Kevin Barry’s 0 1 — 1946
Drum 0 1 — 1990

Notes

  • † — The 1967, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979 and 1981 titles were won as Dungiven GAC.

See also

References

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