# 2022 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship

The 2022 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship was the 132nd staging of the Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Tipperary County Board in 1887.
The defending champions were Loughmore–Castleiney, who were defeated by Drom & Inch at the quarter-final stage.
The competition was overshadowed by the death of Clonoulty–Rossmore hurler Dillon Quirke, who collapsed after 28 minutes of play in a game against Kilruane at Semple Stadium on Friday evening, 5 August 2022. The game was abandoned and other matches were immediately called off.
On 30 October, Kilruane MacDonaghs defeated Kiladangan 2–20 to 1–16 in the final after a replay to win their first title since 1985.

## Team changes
### To Championship

Promoted from the Séamus Ó Riain Cup
* Templederry Kenyons

### From Championship

Relegated to the Tipperary Premier Intermediate Hurling Championship
* Roscrea

## Format change

The Séamus Ó Riain Cup was renamed as the Tipperary Premier Intermediate Hurling Championship. This reduced the number of senior hurling clubs in Tipperary from 32 to 16. This meant that unlike in previous years, teams part of the Séamus Ó Riain Cup could no longer compete in their divisional senior championships, where if they were to win, they would enter the knockout stages in a preliminary quarter-final. Only the 16 teams in the group stages of the Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship were able to win the title.

## Divisional championship finals

| Division | Winner | Score | Runner-up | Score |
| Mid | JK Brackens | 0-19 | Drom & Inch | 1-15 |
| North | Nenagh Éire Óg | 2-20 | Kiladangan | 2-18 |
| South | Carrick Swans | 1-21 | Mullinahone | 1-17 |
| West | Clonoulty–Rossmore | 1-20 | Éire Óg Annacarty | 0-19 |

## Group stage

Advance to quarter-finals  Advance to preliminary-quarter-finals  Advance to relegation semi-final

### Group 1

| Team | Matches | Matches | Matches | Matches | Score | Score | Score | Pts |
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | For | Against | Diff |
| Kilruane MacDonaghs | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8-54 | 4-49 | +17 | 4 |
| Nenagh Éire Óg | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7-44 | 3-52 | +4 | 3 |
| Clonoulty–Rossmore | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1-64 | 7-44 | +2 | 3 |
| Moycarkey–Borris | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3-45 | 5-62 | -23 | 2 |

#### Results
### Group 2

| Team | Matches | Matches | Matches | Matches | Score | Score | Score | Pts |
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | For | Against | Diff |
| Drom & Inch | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6-66 | 2-59 | +19 | 6 |
| Thurles Sarsfields | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4-65 | 6-48 | +11 | 4 |
| Borris–Ileigh | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1-60 | 3-61 | -7 | 2 |
| Templederry Kenyons | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4-55 | 4-78 | -23 | 0 |

#### Results
### Group 3

| Team | Matches | Matches | Matches | Matches | Score | Score | Score | Pts |
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | For | Against | Diff |
| Upperchurch–Drombane | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3-62 | 0-51 | +20 | 6 |
| Toomevara | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5-46 | 3-51 | +1 | 3 |
| Holycross–Ballycahill | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1-67 | 4-57 | +1 | 2 |
| Mullinahone | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2-45 | 4-61 | -22 | 1 |

#### Results
### Group 4

| Team | Matches | Matches | Matches | Matches | Score | Score | Score | Pts |
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | For | Against | Diff |
| Kiladangan | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4-49 | 1-41 | +17 | 5 |
| Loughmore–Castleiney | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2-55 | 2-51 | +4 | 4 |
| JK Brackens | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3-46 | 4-48 | -5 | 2 |
| Éire Óg Annacarty | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1-45 | 3-55 | -16 | 1 |

#### Results
## Knockout stage
### Bracket

| Preliminary Quarter-Finals 11 September 2022 | Preliminary Quarter-Finals 11 September 2022 | Preliminary Quarter-Finals 11 September 2022 | Quarter-Finals 24 & 25 September 2022 | Quarter-Finals 24 & 25 September 2022 | Quarter-Finals 24 & 25 September 2022 | Semi-Finals 9 October 2022 | Semi-Finals 9 October 2022 | Semi-Finals 9 October 2022 | Final 23 & 30 October 2022 | Final 23 & 30 October 2022 | Final 23 & 30 October 2022 |
| | | | Kilruane MacDonaghs | Kilruane MacDonaghs | 2-17 | | | | | | |
| | | | Toomevara | Toomevara | 2-15 | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | Kilruane MacDonaghs | Kilruane MacDonaghs | 2-17 | | | |
| | | | | | | Upperchurch–Drombane | Upperchurch–Drombane | 1-14 | | | |
| | | | Upperchurch–Drombane | Upperchurch–Drombane | 2-21 | | | | | | |
| JK Brackens | JK Brackens | 3-17 | JK Brackens | JK Brackens | 1-21 | | | | | | |
| Nenagh Éire Óg | Nenagh Éire Óg | 1-19 | | | | | | | Kilruane MacDonaghs | Kilruane MacDonaghs | 2-18 2-20 (R) |
| | | | | | | | | | Kiladangan | Kiladangan | 1-21 1-16 (R) |
| | | | Drom & Inch | Drom & Inch | 0-21 | | | | | | |
| | | | Loughmore–Castleiney | Loughmore–Castleiney | 0-18 | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | Drom & Inch | Drom & Inch | 1-17 | | | |
| | | | | | | Kiladangan | Kiladangan | 1-21 | | | |
| | | | Kiladangan | Kiladangan | 1-14 | | | | | | |
| Clonoulty–Rossmore | Clonoulty–Rossmore | 1-18 | Clonoulty–Rossmore | Clonoulty–Rossmore | 0-12 | | | | | | |
| Thurles Sarsfields | Thurles Sarsfields | 1-16 | | | | | | | | | |

### Final
## Championship statistics
### Top scorers
#### Overall

| Rank | Player | Club | Tally | Total | Matches | Average |
| 1 | Willie Cleary | Kilruane MacDonaghs | 1-56 | 59 | 7 | 8.43 |
| 2 | Bryan McLoughney | Kiladangan | 1-48 | 51 | 7 | 7.29 |
| 3 | Lyndon Fairbrother | JK Brackens | 1-43 | 46 | 5 | 9.2 |
| 4 | Séamus Callanan | Drom & Inch | 2-39 | 45 | 5 | 9 |
| 5 | Paidi Greene | Upperchurch–Drombane | 2-35 | 41 | 5 | 8.2 |
| 6 | Aidan McCormack | Thurles Sarsfields | 0-39 | 39 | 4 | 9.75 |
| 7 | Jack Ryan | Clonoulty–Rossmore | 0-37 | 37 | 5 | 7.4 |
| 8 | Michael Heffernan | Nenagh Éire Óg | 0-35 | 35 | 4 | 8.75 |
| 9 | Cian Darcy | Kilruane MacDonaghs | 7-13 | 34 | 7 | 4.86 |
| 10 | Darragh Woods | Holycross–Ballycahill | 0-33 | 33 | 3 | 11 |

#### In a single game

| Rank | Player | Club | Tally | Total | Opposition |
| 1 | Brendan Maher | Borris–Ileigh | 0-16 | 16 | Templederry Kenyons |
| 1 | Paidi Greene | Upperchurch–Drombane | 1-13 | 16 | JK Brackens |
| 3 | Aidan Griffin | Templederry Kenyons | 0-14 | 14 | Loughmore-Castleiney |
| 4 | Cian Darcy | Kilruane MacDonaghs | 3-4 | 13 | Moycarkey–Borris |
| 5 | Séamus Callanan | Drom & Inch | 1-9 | 12 | Templederry Kenyons |
| 5 | Séamus Callanan | Drom & Inch | 1-9 | 12 | Kiladangan |
| 5 | Darragh Woods | Holycross–Ballycahill | 0-12 | 12 | Mullinahone |
| 5 | Lyndon Fairbrother | JK Brackens | 0-12 | 12 | Upperchurch–Drombane |
| 9 | Willie Cleary | Kilruane MacDonaghs | 0-11 | 11 | Nenagh Éire Óg |
| 9 | Willie Cleary | Kilruane MacDonaghs | 0-11 | 11 | Kiladangan |
| 9 | Lyndon Fairbrother | JK Brackens | 1-8 | 11 | Loughmore–Castleiney |
| 9 | Aidan McCormack | Thurles Sarsfields | 0-11 | 11 | Drom & Inch |
| 9 | Michael Heffernan | Nenagh Éire Óg | 0-11 | 11 | JK Brackens |
| 9 | Aidan McCormack | Thurles Sarsfields | 0-11 | 11 | Templederry Kenyons |
| 9 | Sean Ryan | Templederry Kenyons | 2-5 | 11 | Thurles Sarsfields |
| 9 | Darragh Woods | Holycross–Ballycahill | 0-11 | 11 | Upperchurch–Drombane |