# 2024 Waterford Senior Hurling Championship

The 2024 Waterford Senior Hurling Championship was the 124th staging of the Waterford Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Waterford County Board in 1897. The draws for the group stage pairings was made on 29 January 2024. The championship is scheduled to run from 19 July to September 2024.
Ballygunner entered the championship as the defending champions. Tallow were relegated after losing a playoff to Clonea.
The final was played on 1 September 2024 at Fraher Field in Dungarvan, between Ballygunner and Abbeyside, in what was their second meeting in the final overall and a first meeting in six years. Ballygunner won the match by 2–28 to 2–10 to claim their 23rd championship title overall and a record-extending 11th title in succession.
Ballygunner's Pauric Mahony was the championship's top scorer with 1-48.

## Team changes
### To Championship

Promoted from the Waterford Premier Intermediate Hurling Championship
* Ferrybank

### From Championship

Relegated to the Waterford Premier Intermediate Hurling Championship
* Dunhill

## Group A
### Group A table

Advance to quarter-finals  Advance to preliminary quarter-finals
| Team | Matches | Matches | Matches | Matches | Score | Score | Score | Pts |
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | For | Against | Diff |
| Roanmore | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 62 | 31 | 31 | 4 |
| Clonea | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 55 | 36 | 19 | 2 |
| Tallow | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 20 | 70 | -50 | 0 |

### Group A results
## Group B
### Group B table

Advance to quarter-finals  Advance to preliminary quarter-finals
| Team | Matches | Matches | Matches | Matches | Score | Score | Score | Pts |
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | For | Against | Diff |
| Mount Sion | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 47 | 42 | 5 | 4 |
| De La Salle | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 41 | 41 | 0 | 2 |
| Passage | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 38 | 43 | -5 | 0 |

### Group B results
## Group C
### Group C table

Advance to quarter-finals  Advance to preliminary quarter-finals
| Team | Matches | Matches | Matches | Matches | Score | Score | Score | Pts |
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | For | Against | Diff |
| Ballygunner | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 59 | 32 | 27 | 4 |
| Lismore | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 45 | 43 | 2 | 2 |
| Dungarvan | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 35 | 64 | -29 | 0 |

### Group C results
## Group D
### Group D table

Advance to quarter-finals  Advance to preliminary quarter-finals
| Team | Matches | Matches | Matches | Matches | Score | Score | Score | Pts |
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | For | Against | Diff |
| Abbeyside | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 54 | 31 | 23 | 4 |
| Fourmilewater | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 38 | 40 | -2 | 2 |
| Ferrybank | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 36 | 57 | -21 | 0 |

### Group D results
## Championship statistics
### Top scorers
#### Overall

| Rank | Player | Club | Tally | Total | Matches | Average |
| 1 | Pauric Mahony | Ballygunner | 1-48 | 51 | 5 | 10.20 |
| 2 | Jason Gleeson | Clonea | 4-35 | 47 | 5 | 9.40 |
| 3 | Michael O'Halloran | Abbeyside | 0-46 | 46 | 5 | 9.20 |
| 4 | Austin Gleeson | Mount Sion | 2-39 | 45 | 4 | 11.25 |
| 5 | Thomas Carey | Passage | 0-43 | 43 | 5 | 8.60 |
| 6 | Mark O'Brien | Ferrybank | 1-39 | 42 | 4 | 10.50 |
| 7 | Reuben Halloran | De La Salle | 1-36 | 39 | 4 | 9.75 |
| 8 | Maurice Shanahan | Lismore | 1-33 | 36 | 4 | 9.00 |
| 9 | Michael Kiely | Dungarvan | 2-27 | 33 | 4 | 8.25 |
| 9 | Gavin O'Brien | Roanmore | 0-33 | 33 | 3 | 11.00 |

#### In a single game

| Rank | Player | Club | Tally | Total | Opposition |
| 1 | Jason Gleeson | Clonea | 2-08 | 14 | Tallow |
| 1 | Austin Gleeson | Mount Sion | 1-11 | 14 | De La Salle |
| 3 | Austin Gleeson | Mount Sion | 1-10 | 13 | Passage |
| 3 | Pauric Mahony | Ballygunner | 0-13 | 13 | Passage |
| 3 | Thomas Carey | Passage | 0-13 | 13 | Roanmore |
| 3 | Maurice Shanahan | Lismore | 0-13 | 13 | Tallow |
| 3 | Mark O'Brien | Ferrybank | 0-13 | 13 | Clonea |
| 8 | Michael Kiely | Dungarvan | 2-06 | 12 | Ballygunner |
| 8 | Jason Gleeson | Clonea | 0-12 | 12 | Tallow |
| 8 | Gavin O'Brien | Roanmore | 0-12 | 12 | Tallow |