2016 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship

2016 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship
Dates9 April - 16 October 2016
Teams30
SponsorClean Ireland Recycling
Champions Thurles Sarsfields
Pádraic Maher (captain)
Tommy Maher (manager)
Runners-up Kiladangan
Darragh Egan (captain)
Alan Flynn (captain)
Dan Hackett (manager)
Tournament statistics
Matches played58
Top scorer(s) Pa Bourke (2-51)
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The 2016 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship was the 126th staging of the Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Tipperary County Board in 1887. The first round of the Championship began on 9 April.[1]

Thurles Sarsfields were the defending champions.[2]

Thurles Sarsfields played Kiladangan in the final, a repeat of the 1938 decider, Kiladangan's last appearance in the final.[3]

The final was played in Semple Stadium on 16 October, with Thurles Sarsfields winning the game by 0–27 to 1–15 in front of 6,546 spectators. Tipperary and Thurles legend Mickey Byrne died at age 93 on the morning of the match. It was a third successive win for Thurles, and the first time they've won three-in-a-row since the 1960s.[4][5][6]

  1. ^ "2016 County Senior Hurling Championship Round 1 Results / Round-up". Tipperary GAA. 25 May 2016. Retrieved 26 May 2016.
  2. ^ Breheny, Martin (3 November 2014). "Early surge the key as classy Sarsfields seize glory". Irish Independent. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
  3. ^ "Pádraic Maher hails 'lunatic' Thurles Sarsfields team-mates". Irish Examiner. 11 October 2016. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
  4. ^ "Thurles Sarsfields honour 'The Rattler' taking Tipp title". RTE Sport. 16 October 2016. Retrieved 17 October 2016.
  5. ^ "Sarsfields honour 'The Rattler' in fitting style". Irish Independent. 16 October 2016. Retrieved 17 October 2016.
  6. ^ "No fairytale for Kiladangan as Thurles Sars clinch Tipperary hurling three-in-a-row". The 42. 17 October 2016. Retrieved 17 October 2016.