# List of Tipperary senior hurling team captains

This article lists players who have recently captained the Tipperary county hurling team in the Munster Senior Hurling Championship and the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship.
The captain is normally chosen from the club that has won the Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship. This did not happen in 1989. In that year Loughmore Castleiney were the reigning county hurling champions but did not hold the captaincy during the championship as none of their players were deemed good enough to make the team. In 1989 therefore Pat McGrath of Loughmore Castleiney was the captain during the National Hurling League and Bobby Ryan of Borris-Ileigh was the captain during the Championship. Had McGrath played in a championship match he was deemed captain for that game, in other words had he come onto the field during the All Ireland he would have collected the trophy.
The same situation arose in the 2008 season. Loughmore Castleiney were again the county champions and failed to maintain a presence on the team. Eoin Kelly and Paul Ormond were named as joint-captains. Ormond represented the Loughmore Castleiney club. Again if Ormond played he was the captain. However, on each occasion that a trophy was won both Kelly and Ormond collected it jointly. In all other cases the captain came from the county hurling champions club.

## List of captains

| Year | Player | Club | National titles | Provincial titles |
| 2025 | Ronan Maher | Thurles Sarsfields | | |
| 2024 | Ronan Maher | Thurles Sarsfields | | |
| 2023 | Noel McGrath | Loughmore-Castleiney | | |
| 2022 | Ronan Maher | Thurles Sarsfields | | |
| 2021 | Séamus Callanan | Drom-Inch | | |
| 2020 | Séamus Callanan | Drom-Inch | | |
| 2019 | Séamus Callanan | Thurles Sarsfields | All-Ireland Hurling Final winning captain | |
| 2018 | Pádraic Maher | Thurles Sarsfields | | |
| 2017 | Pádraic Maher | Thurles Sarsfields | | |
| 2016 | Brendan Maher | Borris-Ileigh | All-Ireland Hurling Final winning captain | Munster Hurling Final winning captain |
| 2015 | Brendan Maher | Borris-Ileigh | | Munster Hurling Final winning captain |
| 2014 | Brendan Maher | Borris-Ileigh | | |
| 2013 | Shane McGrath | Ballinahinch | | |
| 2012 | Paul Curren | Mullinahone | | Munster Hurling Final winning captain |
| 2011 | Eoin Kelly | Mullinahone | | Munster Hurling Final winning captain |
| 2010 | Eoin Kelly | Mullinahone | All-Ireland Hurling Final winning captain | |
| 2009 | Willie Ryan | Toomevara | | Munster Hurling Final winning captain |
| 2008 | Eoin Kelly | Mullinahone | | Munster Hurling Final winning captain |
| 2007 | Benny Dunne | Toomevara | | |
| 2006 | Lar Corbett | Thurles Sarsfields | | |
| | Ger O'Grady | Thurles Sarsfields | | |
| 2005 | Benny Dunne | Toomevara | | |
| 2004 | Tommy Dunne | Toomevara | | |
| 2003 | Brian O'Meara | Mullinahone | | |
| 2002 | Tommy Dunne | Toomevara | | |
| 2001 | Tommy Dunne | Toomevara | All-Ireland Hurling Final winning captain | Munster Hurling Final winning captain |
| 2000 | Tommy Dunne | Toomevara | | |
| 1999 | Tommy Dunne | Toomevara | | |
| 1998 | Declan Ryan | Clonoulty-Rossmore | | |
| 1997 | Conor Gleeson | Boherlahan-Dualla | | |
| 1996 | Michael Cleary | Nenagh Éire Óg | |
| 1995 | Tommy Dunne | Toomevara | | |
| 1994 | George Frend | Toomevara | | |
| 1993 | Michael Cleary | Nenagh Éire Óg | | |
| | Michael O'Meara | Toomevara | | Munster Hurling Final winning captain |
| 1992 | Colm Bonnar | Cashel King Cormac's | | |
| 1991 | Declan Carr | Holycross-Ballycahill | All-Ireland Hurling Final winning captain | Munster Hurling Final winning captain |
| 1990 | Declan Ryan | Clonoulty-Rossmore | | |
| 1989 | Bobby Ryan | Borris-Ileigh | All-Ireland Hurling Final winning captain | Munster Hurling Final winning captain |
| 1988 | Nicky English | Lattin-Cullen | | |
| | Pat O'Neill | Cappawhite | | Munster Hurling Final winning captain |
| 1987 | Richard Stakelum | Borris-Ileigh | | Munster Hurling Final winning captain |
| 1986 | Tony Sheppard | Kilruane MacDonagh's | | |
| 1985 | Jack Bergin | Moycarkey-Borris | | |
| 1984 | Bobby Ryan | Borris-Ileigh | | |
| 1983 | Liam Bergin | Moycarkey-Borris | | |
| 1982 | Timmy Stapleton | Borris-Ileigh | | |
| 1981 | Peadar Quealy | Roscrea | | |
| 1980 | | | | |
| 1979 | Paddy Williams | Kilruane MacDonagh's | | |
| 1978 | | Kilruane MacDonagh's | | |
| 1977 | Noel O'Dwyer | Borris-Ileigh | | |
| 1976 | Billy Fanning | Moneygall | | |
| 1975 | Francis Murphy | Thurles Sarsfields | | |
| 1974 | Roger Ryan | Roscrea | | |
| 1973 | Francis Loughnane | Roscrea | | |
| 1972 | Mick Cowan | Moyne-Templetuohy | | |
| | Michael 'Babs' Keating | Ballybacon-Grange | | |
| 1971 | Tadhg O'Connor | Roscrea | All-Ireland Hurling Final winning captain | Munster Hurling Final winning captain |
| 1970 | Francis Loughnane | Roscrea | | |
| 1969 | Francis Loughnane | Roscrea | | |
| 1968 | Mick Roche | Carrick Davins | | Munster Hurling Final winning captain |
| 1967 | Mick Roche | Carrick Davins | | Munster Hurling Final winning captain |
| 1966 | Tony Wall | Thurles Sarsfields | | |
| 1965 | Jimmy Doyle | Thurles Sarsfields | All-Ireland Hurling Final winning captain | Munster Hurling Final winning captain |
| 1964 | Mick Murphy | Thurles Sarsfields | All-Ireland Hurling Final winning captain | Munster Hurling Final winning captain |
| 1963 | Seán McLoughlin | Thurles Sarsfields | | |
| 1962 | Jimmy Doyle | Thurles Sarsfields | All-Ireland Hurling Final winning captain | Munster Hurling Final winning captain |
| 1961 | Matt Hassett | Toomevara | All-Ireland Hurling Final winning captain | Munster Hurling Final winning captain |
| 1960 | Tony Wall | Thurles Sarsfields | | Munster Hurling Final winning captain |
| 1959 | Tony Wall | Thurles Sarsfields | | |
| 1958 | Tony Wall | Thurles Sarsfields | | Munster Hurling Final winning captain |
| 1957 | Mickey Byrne | Thurles Sarsfields | | |
| 1956 | Mickey Byrne | Thurles Sarsfields | | |
| 1955 | John Doyle | Holycross-Ballycahill | | |
| 1954 | Jimmy Finn | Borris-Ileigh | | |
| 1953 | Tommy Doyle | Thurles Sarsfields | | |
| 1952 | Pat Stakelum | Holycross-Ballycahill | | |
| 1951 | Jimmy Finn | Borris-Ileigh | All-Ireland Hurling Final winning captain | Munster Hurling Final winning captain |
| 1950 | Seán Kenny | Borris-Ileigh | All-Ireland Hurling Final winning captain | Munster Hurling Final winning captain |
| 1949 | Pat Stakelum | Holycross-Ballycahill | All-Ireland Hurling Final winning captain | Munster Hurling Final winning captain |
| 1948 | Willie Wall | Carrick Swans | | |
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| 1945 | John Maher | Thurles Sarsfields | All-Ireland Hurling Final winning captain | Munster Hurling Final winning captain |
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| 1942 | | | | |
| 1941 | Johnny Ryan | Moycarkey-Borris | | Munster Hurling Final winning captain |
| 1940 | John Maher | Thurles Sarsfields | | |
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| 1938 | Paddy Ryan | Moycarkey-Borris | | |
| 1937 | Jimmy Lanigan | Thurles Sarsfields | All-Ireland Hurling Final winning captain | Munster Hurling Final winning captain |
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| 1931 | Martin Kennedy | Toomevara | | |
| 1930 | John Joe Callinan | Thurles Sarsfields | All-Ireland Hurling Final winning captain | Munster Hurling Final winning captain |
| 1929 | | | | |
| 1928 | Johnny Leahy | Boherlahan | | |