The 2016 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship – known as the Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship for sponsorship reasons – is the premier inter-county senior camogie competition.

The winners receive the O'Duffy Cup.

The championship began on 18 June.

Teams

Eleven county teams compete in the Senior Championship (tier 1). Sixteen lower-ranked county teams plus the second teams of tier 1 counties compete in the Intermediate (tier 2) and Junior (tier 3) Championships.

Format

Group Stage

The eleven teams are drawn into one group of six and one group of five. All the teams play each other once. Three points are awarded for a win and one for a draw.

Knock-out stage

Group stage

Key to colours
Advance to semi-finals
Advance to quarter-finals

Group 1

Table

TeamPldWDLFADiffPts
Cork540111451+6312
Wexford540110270+3212
Offaly54018973+1612
Limerick52038091–116
Waterford51045896–383
Clare500551113–620

Tie-Breaker

If only two teams are level on league points -

  • The team that won the head-to-head match is ranked first
  • If this game was a draw, score difference (total scored minus total conceded in all games) is used to rank the teams
  • If score difference is identical, total scored is used to rank the teams
  • If still identical, a play-off is required

If three or more teams are level on league points, score difference is used to rank the teams.

Rounds 1 to 5

Round 1

Clare1-11 - 1-16Offaly
Waterford0-9 - 2-16Cork
Wexford3-17 - 1-16Limerick

Round 2

CorkvClare
LimerickvWaterford
OffalyvWexford

Round 3

ClarevLimerick
CorkvOffaly
WaterfordvWexford

Round 4

v
v
v

Round 5

v
v
v

Group 2

Table

TeamPldWDLFADiffPts
Galway44007534+4112
Kilkenny43019145+469
Tipperary41126663+34
Dublin41126362+14
Derry400425116–910

Rounds 1 to 5

Round 1

Derry2-3 - 5-24Kilkenny
Galway1-13 - 1-10Tipperary

Round 2

v
v

Round 3

Tipperary0-11 - 1-21Kilkenny
v

Round 4

v
v

Round 5

v
v

Knock-out Stage

All-Ireland Quarter-Finals

The second team in group 1 plays the third team in group 2 and the third team in group 1 plays the second team in group 2. All matches are knock-out.

Wexford2-11 - 0-16Tipperary

Offaly0-11 - 1-19Kilkenny

All-Ireland Semi-Finals

The winners of groups 1 and 2 play the winners of the two quarter-finals. All matches are knock-out

Cork0-19 - 0-15Wexford

Galway1-19 - 3-15Kilkenny

All-Ireland final

Kilkenny1-13 - 1-9Cork
D Gaule 0-7(fs), J A Malone 0-4, S Farrell 1-0, M Farrell, K Power 0-1 eachO Cotter 1-2 (1-1fs), K Mackey 0-2, A Murray (pen), A Thompson, H Looney, E O’Sullivan, L Coppinger 0-1 each

External links

Preceded byAll-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship 2015All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship 1932 – presentSucceeded byAll-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship 2017