2022 Clare Senior Hurling Championship
# 2022 Clare Senior Hurling Championship

The 2022 Clare Senior Hurling Championship was a competition in hurling that was the 127th staging of the Clare Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Clare County Board in 1887.

The 2021 champions, and holders of the Canon Hamilton Cup are Ballyea who won their third title in six years, following on from their maiden success in 2016 and another in 2018. They defeated Inagh-Kilnamona by a single point in Cusack Park, Ennis in the county final.

The draws for the 2022 Clare club championships took place in April 2022.

## Senior Championship Fixtures

### Group stage

* Two groups of five and two groups of four.
* 2021 semi-finalists are seeded and kept separate.
* Each team plays all the other teams in their group once. Two points are awarded for a win and one for a draw.
   * The top two teams in each group advance to Quarter-Finals
   * The third-placed teams in each group and the fourth-placed team in Groups A and B move to Senior B Championship
   * The bottom-placed team from each group contest Relegation Playoffs

**Group A**

Quarter-Final, Seeded  Quarter-Final, Unseeded  Senior B Championship  Relegation Playoff

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | F | A | Diff | Pts |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Sixmilebridge | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 119 | 67 | +52 | 8 |
| Newmarket-on-Fergus | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 75 | 67 | +8 | 5 |
| Feakle | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 81 | 101 | -20 | 4 |
| Clonlara | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 73 | 85 | -12 | 2 |
| Whitegate | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 74 | 102 | -28 | 1 |

**Group B**

Quarter-Final, Seeded  Quarter-Final, Unseeded  Senior B Championship  Relegation Playoff

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | F | A | Diff | Pts |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cratloe | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 109 | 76 | +33 | 6 |
| Ballyea | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 86 | 74 | +12 | 6 |
| O'Callaghan's Mills | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 85 | 87 | -2 | 5 |
| Broadford | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 60 | 83 | -23 | 2 |
| Clarecastle | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 58 | 78 | -20 | 1 |

**Group C**

Quarter-Final, Seeded  Quarter-Final, Unseeded  Senior B Championship  Relegation Playoff

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | F | A | Diff | Pts |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Clooney-Quin | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 63 | 47 | +16 | 4 |
| Éire Óg, Ennis | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 74 | 67 | +7 | 4 |
| Kilmaley | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 63 | 70 | -7 | 4 |
| Scariff | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 55 | 71 | -16 | 0 |

**Group D**

Quarter-Final, Seeded  Quarter-Final, Unseeded  Senior B Championship  Relegation Playoff

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | F | A | Diff | Pts |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Inagh-Kilnamona | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 62 | 54 | +8 | 4 |
| Wolfe Tones, Shannon | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 63 | 57 | +6 | 4 |
| Crusheen | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 61 | 56 | +5 | 2 |
| Smith O'Brien's, Killaloe | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 49 | 68 | -19 | 2 |

### Quarter-finals

* Played by top two placed teams from each group

## County Final

| Ballyea | Éire Óg, Ennis |
| - | - |

## Other Fixtures

### Senior B Championship

* Played by four third-placed teams from Groups A-D, and the fourth-placed teams from Groups A and B

### Relegation Playoffs

* Played by the four bottom-placed teams from Groups A-D
   * Loser of each playoff relegated to Intermediate for 2023
