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The 2009 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final was a hurling match played on 6 September 2009 in Croke Park, Dublin, between Kilkenny and Tipperary. [2] It was the first time the two teams had met in the All-Ireland final since 1991.
The Final of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship is the ultimate match in the annual hurling competition organised since 1887 by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). Contested by the top hurling teams in Ireland, the tournament has taken place every year, except in 1888, when the competition was not played due to a tour of the United ...
The Ulster champions lost to their Munster opponents on a score line of 4-24 to 3-9. [1] Tipperary had led at half time by 1-13 to 0-5 with their goal coming from Declan Ryan who scored when his high long range shot for a point hit the hurley of the Antrim goalkeeper Niall Patterson on its way into the net after 18 minutes. [2]
Tipperary's final tally of 4–17 is the biggest total ever scored against Kilkenny in a 70-minute final (the 5–17 for Tipperary in 1971 was in an 80-minute decider). Lar Corbett became only the second player in modern times and first since Eddie O'Brien in 1970 for Cork to score a hat-trick in a final. [22]
Galway entered the championship at the All-Ireland semi-final stage where they played the Munster winners. The winners of the Ulster Championship played the All-Ireland 'B' champions in a lone All-Ireland quarter-final. The winners of this game advanced to the All-Ireland semi-final where they played the Leinster winners.
A total of thirteen teams competed in the championship, with Tipperary unseating the four-time defending champions Kilkenny by 4-17 to 1-18 in the final at Croke Park, Dublin. [1] The championship began on 22 May 2010 and concluded on 5 September 2010.
The final was contested by Kilkenny [2] and defending champions, Tipperary. [3] Kilkenny were playing in their sixth consecutive final, while the pairing of Kilkenny and Tipperary was the first ever time that the same two teams have played in the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final for three consecutive seasons. [4]
Limerick's 2–18 to 2-16 Munster semi-final defeat of Tipperary was their first victory over their near neighbours at Semple Stadium since 1973. Kilkenny's tally of 5-32, or 47 points, was the biggest score the Cats have posted in a championship match during Brian Cody 's tenure as manager.