Galway–Kilkenny hurling rivalry

Galway-Kilkenny
Statistics
Locale	County Galway County Kilkenny
Teams	Galway Kilkenny
First meeting	Kilk. 3-4 - 0-4 Galway 1897 All-Ireland semi-final (30 October 1898)
Latest meeting	Kil. 1-22 - 1-18 Galway 2015 All-Ireland Final (6 September 2015)
Next meeting	TBD
Meetings total	41
Most player appearances	Henry Shefflin (12)
Top scorer	Henry Shefflin (5-101)
All-time series	Galway 9-30 Kilkenny (2 draws)
Largest victory	Kilk. 5-28 - 3-7 Galway 1972 All-Ireland semi-final (6 August 1972)

The Galway-Kilkenny rivalry is a hurling rivalry between Irish inter-county teams Galway and Kilkenny, who first played each other in 1898. Recently it has become one of the biggest rivalries in Gaelic games.^[1]^[2]^[3] Kilkenny's home ground is Nowlan Park and Galway's home ground is Pearse Stadium, however, all of their championship meetings have been held at neutral venues.

While Kilkenny have the highest number of All-Ireland and Leinster titles, Galway were the standard bearers in Connacht before joining the Leinster championship in 2009, however, All-Ireland success for them has been sporadic. Between them the two teams have won 40 All-Ireland championships.

History

While Kilkenny is classed as one of the "Big Three", Galway is considered an in-between county, meaning it has some good years and some bad years. Galway have always had the capability to stop the Kilkenny forces.

Statistics

Team	All-Ireland	Provincial	National League	Total
Kilkenny	36	71	18	118
Galway	4	42	8	54
Combined	40	113	26	172

Notable Matches

Galway 5-18 : 4-18 Kilkenny (August 2005 Croke Park) - Lauded as the greatest game of the modern era, Galway went in as underdogs but managed to stun the hurling world by enialating Kilkenny in the opening 30 minutes leading 2-11:1-04 after 30 minutes. Kilkenny came back into it and trailed only by 2 points at the break 2-11:3-05. But 3 second-half goals by Niall Healy helped Galway to stay in front and bring them to a shocking win by 5-18:4-18.^[4]
Kilkenny 1-19 : 1-12 Galway (July 2010 at Croke Park) - Galways first Leinster final pitted them against the mighty Kilkenny who were going for an infamous 5-In-A-Row All Irelands. Despite a strong start with Galway jumping to a 1-03:0-00 lead, Kilkenny soon got to grips and rallied to lead 0-14:1-05 at half time. Galway were unlucky not to win the second half (K 1-05:0-07 G), but never gave up and battled until the end.^[5]
Galway 2-21 : 2-11 Kilkenny (July 2012 at Croke Park) - Kilkenny had become the Kings of hurling and were seen as unbeatable, that is until Anthony Cunninghams men took them on in the Leinster Final of 2012. Galway held Kilkeeny scoreless for 20 minutes and led at half time by 2-12:0-04. Kilkenny fought back in the second half, but it was never going to be enough as Galway finished strongly to win their first Leinster title by 2-21:2-11.^[6]
Kilkenny 0-19 : 2-13 Galway (September 2012 at Croke Park) - The sides second meeting in the 2012 Trilogy was the All-Ireland final.^[7] Again Galway jumped into a lead 1-04:0-02 and held on to lead by 5 at the break 1-09:0-07, but sloppy defending meant they conceded 10 second half frees all converted by Henry Shefflin. Galway finished with a last-gasp free from Joe Canning to force a replay, final score Galway 2-13, Kilkenny 0-19.^[8]
Kilkenny 3-22: 3-11 Galway (September 2012 #2 at Croke Park) - For the third match in 2012 Galway jumped into a 2-02:0-02 lead but that was the last we heard of Galway until the dying moments as Kilkenny dominated the rest of the match scoring 3-22 to win by eleven points.^[9]
Galway 5-16 : 3-22 Kilkenny (June 2014 at O'Connor Park) - Galway came back from 10 points down with six minutes to play to force a draw. Joe Canning scored the last point of the game with the last play from out on the left near the touch-line to level the game after Henry Shefflin appeared to have won it for Kilkenny with a similar point at the other end. Kilkenny went on to win the replay the week after.^[10]

Recent results

Legend

	Galway win
	Kilkenny win
	Drawn match

Senior championship

No.	Date	Winners	Score	Runners-up	Venue	Stage
1.	30 October 1898	Kilkenny (1)	3-4 - 0-4	Galway	Athlone	All-Ireland semi-final
2.	13 May 1906	Kilkenny (2)	2-8 - 1-7	Galway	Athlone	All-Ireland semi-final
3.	29 September 1912	Kilkenny (3)	8-3 - 2-2	Galway	Jones's Road	All-Ireland semi-final
4.	18 May 1924	Galway (1)	5-4 - 2-0	Kilkenny	Croke Park	All-Ireland semi-final
5.	9 August 1925	Galway (2)	9-4 - 6-0	Kilkenny	Croke Park	All-Ireland semi-final
6.	29 August 1926	Kilkenny (4)	6-2 - 5-1	Galway	Croke Park	All-Ireland semi-final
7.	11 August 1929	Galway (3)	7-7 - 7-1	Kilkenny	St. Brendan's Park	All-Ireland semi-final
8.	16 August 1931	Kilkenny (5)	7-2 - 3-1	Galway	Croke Park	All-Ireland semi-final
9.	13 August 1933	Kilkenny (5)	5-10 - 3-8	Galway	St. Brendan's Park	All-Ireland semi-final
10.	4 August 1935	Kilkenny (6)	6-10 - 1-8	Galway	St. Brendan's Park	All-Ireland semi-final
11.	8 August 1937	Kilkenny (7)	0-8 - 0-6	Galway	St. Brendan's Park	All-Ireland semi-final
12.	6 August 1939	Kilkenny (8)	1-16 - 3-1	Galway	St. Cronan's Park	All-Ireland semi-final
13.	29 July 1945	Kilkenny (9)	5-3 - 2-11	Galway	St. Brendan's Park	All-Ireland semi-final
14.	27 July 1947	Kilkenny (10)	2-9 - 1-11	Galway	St. Brendan's Park	All-Ireland semi-final
15.	16 August 1953	Galway (4)	3-5 - 1-10	Kilkenny	Croke Park	All-Ireland semi-final
16.	6 August 1972	Kilkenny (11)	5-28 - 3-7	Galway	Croke Park	All-Ireland semi-final
17.	4 August 1974	Kilkenny (13)	2-32 - 3-17	Galway	St. Brendan's Park	All-Ireland semi-final
18.	7 September 1975	Kilkenny (14)	2-22 - 2-10	Galway	Croke Park	All-Ireland final
19.	6 August 1978	Kilkenny (15)	4-20 - 4-13	Galway	Croke Park	All-Ireland semi-final
20.	2 September 1979	Kilkenny (16)	2-12 - 1-8	Galway	Croke Park	All-Ireland final
21.	8 August 1982	Kilkenny (17)	2-20 - 2-10	Galway	Croke Park	All-Ireland semi-final
22.	10 August 1986	Galway (5)	4-12 - 0-13	Kilkenny	Semple Stadium	All-Ireland semi-final
23.	6 September 1987	Galway (6)	1-12 - 0-9	Kilkenny	Croke Park	All-Ireland final
24.	9 August 1992	Kilkenny (18)	2-13 - 1-12	Galway	Croke Park	All-Ireland semi-final
25.	5 September 1993	Kilkenny (19)	2-17 - 1-15	Galway	Croke Park	All-Ireland final
26.	27 July 1997	Kilkenny (20)	4-15 - 3-16	Galway	Semple Stadium	All-Ireland quarter-final
27.	13 August 2000	Kilkenny (21)	2-19 - 0-17	Galway	Croke Park	All-Ireland semi-final
28.	19 August 2001	Galway (7)	2-15 - 1-13	Kilkenny	Croke Park	All-Ireland semi-final
29.	10 July 2004	Kilkenny (22)	4-20 - 1-10	Galway	Semple Stadium	All-Ireland qualifier
30.	21 August 2005	Galway (8)	5-18 - 4-18	Kilkenny	Croke Park	All-Ireland semi-final
31.	22 July 2006	Kilkenny (23)	2-22 - 3-14	Galway	Semple Stadium	All-Ireland quarter-final
32.	28 July 2007	Kilkenny (24)	1-19 - 1-12	Galway	Croke Park	All-Ireland quarter-final
33.	20 June 2009	Kilkenny (25)	2-20 - 3-13	Galway	O'Connor Park	Leinster semi-final
34.	4 July 2010	Kilkenny (26)	1-19 - 1-12	Galway	Croke Park	Leinster final
35.	8 July 2012	Galway (9)	2-21 - 2-11	Kilkenny	Croke Park	Leinster final
36.	9 September 2012	Galway	2-13 - 0-19	Kilkenny	Croke Park	All-Ireland final
37.	30 September 2012	Kilkenny (27)	3-22 - 3-11	Galway	Croke Park	All-Ireland final replay
38.	22 June 2014	Kilkenny	3-22 - 5-16	Galway	O'Connor Park	Leinster semi-final
39.	28 June 2014	Kilkenny (28)	3-19 - 1-17	Galway	O'Connor Park	Leinster semi-final replay
40.	5 July 2015	Kilkenny (29)	1-25 - 2-15	Galway	Croke Park	Leinster final
41.	6 September 2015	Kilkenny (30)	1-22 - 1-18	Galway	Croke Park	All-Ireland final
42.	3 July 2016	Kilkenny (31)	1-26 - 0-22	Galway	Croke Park	Leinster final

National League

Date	Winners	Score	Runners-up	Venue	Stage
13 March 2011	Galway	4-14 - 3-11	Kilkenny	Pearse Stadium	Round 4
1 April 2012	Kilkenny	3-26 - 0-10	Galway	Nowlan Park	Round 5
24 February 2013	Galway	3-11 - 0-17	Kilkenny	Pearse Stadium	Round 1
21 April 2013	Kilkenny	1-24 - 1-17	Galway	Semple Stadium	League semi-final
9 March 2014	Kilkenny	2-16 - 1-16	Galway	Nowlan Park	Round 3
20 April 2014	Kilkenny	1-16 - 0-15	Galway	Gaelic Grounds	League semi-final
8 March 2015	Galway	0-20 - 0-18	Kilkenny	Pearse Stadium	Round 3
6 March 2016	Kilkenny	0-21 - 1-14	Kilkenny	Nowlan Park	Round 3

Records

Scorelines

Biggest championship win:
- For Galway:
  - Galway 5-4 - 2-0 Kilkenny, All-Ireland semi-final, Croke Park, 18 May 1924
  - Galway 9-4 - 6-0 Kilkenny, All-Ireland semi-final, Croke Park, 9 August 1925
- For Kilkenny: Kilkenny 5-28 - 3-7 Galway, All-Ireland semi-final, Croke Park, 6 August 1972
Highest aggregate:
- Kilkenny 2-32 - 3-17 Galway, All-Ireland semi-final, St. Brendan's Park, 4 August 1974

Top scorers

Team	Player	Score	Total
Galway	Joe Canning	6-56	74
Kilkenny	Henry Shefflin	5-110	125

Top scorer in a single game:
- For Kilkenny:
  - 2-11 - Henry Shefflin, Kilkenny 4-20 - 1-10 Galway, All-Ireland qualifier, Semple Stadium, 11 July 2004
  - 0-17 - Eddie Keher, Kilkenny 5-28 - 3-7 Galway, All-Ireland semi-final, Croke Park, 6 August 1972
- For Galway:
  - 2-9 - Ger Farragher, Galway 5-18 - 4-18 Kilkenny, All-Ireland semi-final, Croke Park, 21 August 2005
  - 2-9 - Joe Canning, Galway 3-13 - 2-20 Kilkenny, All-Ireland semi-final, O'Connor Park, 20 June 2009

External links

Kilkenny v Galway head-to-head championship record

References

↑ Breheny, Martin (19 June 2014). "Kilkenny wary of history against erratic Tribesmen". Irish Independent. Retrieved 24 June 2014.
↑ McEvoy, Enda (21 June 2014). "The itch Cody can't scratch". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 24 June 2014.
↑ McEvoy, Enda (24 June 2014). "Galway the stone in his shoe Brian Cody can't get rid of". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 24 June 2014.
↑ "Galway turn Cats' milk sour". RTE Sport. 14 June 2007. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
↑ "Kilkenny 1-19 Galway 1-12". RTE Sport. 4 June 2010. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
↑ "Galway 2-21 Kilkenny 2-11". RTE Sport. 8 July 2012. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
↑ "Analysis: How good was Henry Shefflin's iconic display in the 2012 All-Ireland hurling final?". The 42. 1 September 2015. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
↑ "Kilkenny 0-19 Galway 2-13". RTE Sport. 11 September 2012. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
↑ "Kilkenny 3-22 Galway 3-11". RTE Sport. 1 October 2012. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
↑ "Galway 5-16 Kilkenny 3-22". RTE Sport. 23 June 2014. Retrieved 2 September 2015.

Kilkenny GAA

Founded in 1887 Based in Kilkenny, Ireland Captain: Joey Holden Manager: Brian Cody

History	Seasons Records and statistics

Players	List of players List of senior captains List of minor captains

Stadiums	Nowlan Park

Famous Moments	The thunder-and-lightning final The greatest All-Ireland final The Perfect Performance Grand Slam The Hawk-Eye Final

Rivalries	Cork rivalry Galway rivalry Tipperary rivalry Waterford rivalry Wexford rivalry

Key historical figures	Dick Walsh Jack Rochford Sim Walton Dick Doyle Lory Meagher Eddie Keher Frank Cummins D. J. Carey Michael Kavanagh Eddie Brennan J. J. Delaney Tommy Walsh Noel Hickey Henry Shefflin

All-Ireland SHC titles (36)	1904 1905 1907 1909 1911 1912 1913 1922 1932 1933 1935 1939 1947 1957 1963 1967 1969 1972 1974 1975 1979 1982 1983 1992 1993 2000 2002 2003 2006 2007 2008 2009 2011 2012 2014 2015

Affiliations	Championship: Leinster League: Division 1A Cup: Walsh

Hurling rivalries

Antrim	Antrim Clare Cork Dublin Galway Kilkenny Limerick Offaly Tipperary Waterford Wexford

Clare	Antrim Clare Cork Dublin Galway Kilkenny Limerick Offaly Tipperary Waterford Wexford

Cork	Antrim Clare Cork Dublin Galway Kilkenny Limerick Offaly Tipperary Waterford Wexford

Dublin	Antrim Clare Cork Dublin Galway Kilkenny Limerick Offaly Tipperary Waterford Wexford

Galway	Antrim Clare Cork Dublin Galway Kilkenny Limerick Offaly Tipperary Waterford Wexford

Kilkenny	Antrim Clare Cork Dublin Galway Kilkenny Limerick Offaly Tipperary Waterford Wexford

Limerick	Antrim Clare Cork Dublin Galway Kilkenny Limerick Offaly Tipperary Waterford Wexford

Offaly	Antrim Clare Cork Dublin Galway Kilkenny Limerick Offaly Tipperary Waterford Wexford

Tipperary	Antrim Clare Cork Dublin Galway Kilkenny Limerick Offaly Tipperary Waterford Wexford

Waterford	Antrim Clare Cork Dublin Galway Kilkenny Limerick Offaly Tipperary Waterford Wexford

Wexford	Antrim Clare Cork Dublin Galway Kilkenny Limerick Offaly Tipperary Waterford Wexford

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