All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship 1975

Infobox Hurling All-Ireland
year=1975


team=Kilkenny
titles=20th
captain=Billy Fitzpatrick
manager=Tommy Maher
munster=Cork
leinster=Kilkenny
ulster=
connacht=
poty=
matches=
The All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship of 1975 was the 89th edition of Ireland’s premier hurling knockout competition. The championship ran from May to September of that year, culminating with the All-Ireland final, held at Croke Park, Dublin on 7 September. The match was contested by Kilkenny and Galway, with Kilkenny taking the title by 2-22 to 2-10. It was Kilkenny's second All-Ireland title in-a-row and the first championship decider to be played over 70 minutes.

Format

The All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship was run on a provincial basis as usual. All games were played on a knockout basis whereby once a team lost they were eliminated from the championship. The format for the All-Ireland series of games ran as follows:
* The winners of the Leinster Championship advanced directly to the All-Ireland final.
* The winners of the Munster Championship advanced directly to a lone All-Ireland semi-final.
* Galway, a team who faced no competition in Connacht, entered the championship at the All-Ireland quarter-final stage. Their opponents in this game were the winners of the All-Ireland ’B’ Championship. The winners of this lone ‘quarter-final’ would advance to play the Leinster champions.
* There were no representatives from Ulster in the All-Ireland championship.

All-Ireland final

tatistics

footballbox
date=1975-09-07
15:15 BST
team1=Kilkenny
score=2-22 – 2-10
team2=Galway
report=
goals1=
goals2=
stadium=Croke Park, Dublin
attendance=63,711
referee= S. O'Connor (Limerick)

{| width=100% style="font-size: 90%"MATCH RULES
*70 minutes.
*Replay if scores level.
*Three named substitutes

References

* Corry, Eoghan, "The GAA Book of Lists" (Hodder Headline Ireland, 2005).
* Donegan, Des, "The Complete Handbook of Gaelic Games" (DBA Publications Limited, 2005).

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