Ulster Intermediate Hurling Championship

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The Ulster Intermediate Hurling Championship is an inter county competition between the Intermediate Hurling county teams in the province of Ulster in Ireland.{{cite news |title=Setanta win Ulster Intermediate Hurling Championship|access-date=17 February 2024 |url=https://www.donegaldaily.com/2023/12/02/setanta-win-ulster-intermediate-hurling-championship/|work=Donegal Daily |date=2 December 2023}} The series of games are organised by the Ulster Council.

{{Infobox GAA tournament|name=Ulster Intermediate Hurling Championship|currentlyrunning=|image=|caption=|irish=|code=Hurling|founded={{Start date and age|df=yes|1966}}|abolished=1998|region={{flagicon|IRL}} Ireland|trophy=|teams=9|title holders=File:Colours of Down.svg Down|currentordinal=4|super=st|most titles=File:Colours of Antrim.svg Antrim|promoted to=|relegated to=|mostordinal=5|sponsors=|tv=|motto=|website=[http://www.gaa.ie Official website]}}The winners of the Ulster Intermediate Hurling Championship each year progress to play the other provincial champions for a chance to win the All-Ireland Intermediate Hurling Championship. The competition has not been played since 1999. In 2000, Down and London took part in open draw portion of the All-Ireland Championship. Hurling is not strong enough in the province to keep the championship in existence. Only Antrim is capable of fielding a second team. In fact, prior to the establishment of this championship, Antrim competed in the Leinster Intermediate Hurling Championship from 1961 until 1965.

Roll of honour

= Performance by county =

class=" wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" style="text-align:center"

! scope="col" |County

!Titles

! scope="col" |Runners-up

! class="unsortable" scope="col" |Years won

! class="unsortable" scope="col" |Years runner-up

scope="row" |File:Colours_of_Antrim.svg Antrim

|5

|3

|1966, 1967, 1969, 1970, 1973

|1968, 1971, 1972

scope="row" |File:Colours_of_Down.svg Down

|4

|5

|1968, 1971, 1972, 1998

|1966, 1967, 1969, 1970, 1973

scope="row" |File:Colours_of_Derry.svg Derry

|1

|0

|1997

|—

scope="row" |London

|0

|1

|—

|1998

scope="row" |File:Colours_of_Armagh.svg Armagh

|0

|1

|—

|1997

= Performance by province =

class=" wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" style="text-align:center"

! scope="col" |County

!Titles

! scope="col" |Runners-up

!Total

scope="row" |Ulster

|10

|9

|19

scope="row" |Britain

|0

|1

|1

List of finals

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! rowspan="2" |Year

! colspan="2" |Winners

! colspan="2" |Runners-up

County

!Score

!County

!Score

2000–

| colspan="4" | Discontinued

1999

| colspan="4" | No competition

1998

| Down

|3-11

| London

|2-12

1997

| Derry

|6-18

| Armagh

|1-06

1974–1996

| colspan="4" | No competition

1973

| Antrim

|3-11

| Down

|1-06

1972

| Down

|3-13, 2-09

| Antrim

|5-07, 1-10

1971

| Down

|5-08

| Antrim

|1-12

1970

| Antrim

|5-10

| Down

|3-13

1969

| Antrim

|5-06

| Down

|3-09

1968

| Down

|4-05

| Antrim

|2-09

1967

| Antrim

|6-13

| Down

|2-07

1966

| Antrim

|3-11

| Down

|4-05

See also