All-Ireland Hurling Championship Preview & Betting Guide

All-Ireland Hurling Championship Final 2025

The 2025 All-Ireland Hurling Final will take place on Saturday 20th July at 3.30pm at Croke Park.

The game will be covered in Ireland on RTE and on BBC in the UK.

Cork have made the All-Ireland Hurling final for the second year running after their agonising extra-time defeat to Clare in last year's final. 

Tipperary have qualified for the final for the first time since lifting the trophy in 2019.

The odds for a draw at full-time might be tempting when you consider that has been the result in four of the last thirteen finals. If the game does end in a draw the replay will be played on the 2nd August.

All-Ireland Hurling Championship FInal: Preview

Preview

This will be the first meeting between Cork and Tipperary in an All-Ireland Hurling final but the two teams have a long-running rivalry that stretches back to their first official meeting in 1888.

The last time the two teams faced each other was in the Munster round robin in April and Cork were the comprehensive winner by 4-27 to 0-24. 

Cork have won the championship thirty times before and Tipperary have lifted the trophy twenty-eight times. 

Cork are the strong favourites to win their first final in twenty-six years.

Route to the Final: Cork

Qualifying: Cork qualified for the Munster final by winning two matches, losing one and drawing one in round robin section.

Munster Final: Cork beat Limerick on penalties in the Munster final and in doing so qualified through to the All-Ireland semi-final.

Semi-Final: Cork easily defeated Dublin in the All-Ireland semi-final 7-26 to 2-21.

Route to the Final: Tipperary

Qualifiying: Tipperary qualified to the preliminary quarter-finals by virtue of finishing third in the Munster Championship

Preliminary Quarter-Final: Laois 0-18 Tipperary 3-32

Quarter-FInal: Galway 2-17 Tipperary 1-28

Semi-Final: Kilkenny 0-30 Tipperary 4-20 

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Last Ten All-Ireland Hurling Past Winners

The first All-Ireland Hurling Final took place in 1887 when Tipperary beat Galway 1-1 to 0-0.

A total of 126 All-Ireland Hurling Finals have taken place and thirteen different teams have taken the title. 

Kilkenny, Cork and Tipperary have won an amazing 91 titles between them.

Who will win the 2025 All-Ireland Hurling? 

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Last Ten All-Ireland Hurling Winners

Most All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championships

• Kerry, Laois and London all have one win apiece of the All-Ireland Championship

All-Ireland Hurling Final 2024

Clare won their first All-Ireland title for eleven years when just pipping Cork 3-29 to 1-34 after extra-time in a trememdous match that was all-square at half-time and full-time. 

Clare had been in the driving seat for much of the match but Cork showed typical resistance to force the match into the extra twenty-minute period. Clare looked to be safe when they went three points up with hardly any time left on the clock but Patrick Horgan scored two late points for Cork to leave the defecit at just one point with seconds to go. Robbie O'Flynn had a chance to level the game but put the ball agonisingly wide with virtually the last action of this classic match.

The match was enjoyed in the UK for the first time on terrestrial TV when shown in full on BBC2 and with the positive outpourings for the game all over social media it looks certain the All-Ireland final will be live on UK television again in 2025.

Preview

These two teams have met in one previous All-Ireland final in 2013 when Clare came out on top 5-16 to 3-16 after a drawn first match.

Route to the Final: Clare

Qualifying: Clare qualified for the quarter-finals by finishing runner-up to Limerick in the Munster Championship

Quarter-Final: Clare 2-28 Wexford 1-19

Semi-Final: Kilkenny 2-16 Clare 0-24

Route to the Final: Cork

Qualifiying: Cork qualified to the preliminary quarter-finals by virtue of finishing third in the Munster Championship

Preliminary Quarter-Final: Offaly 3-19 Cork 4-25

Quarter-FInal: Dublin 0-21 Cork 0-26

Semi-Final: Limerick 0-29 Cork 1-28 (Cork ended Limerick's hoped of winning a historic fifth consecutive All-Ireland title)

Clare defeated Cork this season in Round Two of the Munster Championship 3-26 - 3-24 in a thrilling match where they scored three goals in the last quarter.