Munster Senior Football Championship
Current season or competition: 2025 Munster Senior Football Championship
Irish	Craobh Peile na Mumhan
Code	Gaelic football
Founded	1888; 137 years ago (1888)
Region	Munster (GAA)
Trophy	Munster Cup
No. of teams	6
Title holders	Kerry (86th title)
Most titles	Kerry (86 titles)
Sponsors	SuperValu,Allianz,AIB
TV partner(s)	RTÉ GAA+
Motto	Experience The Unforgettable
Official website	munster.gaa.ie

TheMunster Senior Football Championship, known simply as theMunster Championship and shortened toMunster SFC, is an annualinter-countyGaelic football competition organised by theMunster Council of theGaelic Athletic Association (GAA). It is the highest inter-county Gaelic football competition in theprovince of Munster, and has been contested every year, bar one, since the1888 championship.

The final, currently held on the fourth Saturday in June, serves as the culmination of a series of games played during May and June, and the results determine which team receives the Munster Cup. The championship has always been played on astraight knockout basis whereby once a team loses they are eliminated from the championship.

The Munster SFC is an integral part of the widerAll-Ireland Senior Football Championship. The winners and runners-up of the Munster SFC, like their counterparts inConnacht,Leinster andUlster, are rewarded by advancing directly to theAll-Ireland group stage. Each of the other defeated teams, depending on their league ranking, advance to the All-Ireland SFC, or to the second-tierTailteann Cup.

Six teams currently participate in the Munster SFC. The title has been won at least once by all six of the Munster counties, four of which have won the title more than once. Kerry have won the most titles, with 84 in total. Kerry are the three-time title holder, having defeated Clare by 4–20 to 0–21 in the2025 final.^[1]

Following the foundation of theGaelic Athletic Association in 1884, new rules forGaelic football andhurling were drawn up and published in theUnited Irishman newspaper. In 1886, county committees began to be established, with several counties affiliating over the next few years. The GAA ran its inauguralAll-Ireland Senior Football Championship in1887. The decision to establish that first championship was influenced by several factors. Firstly, inter-club contests in 1885 and 1886 were wildly popular and began to draw huge crowds. Clubs started to travel across the country to play against each other and these matches generated intense interest as the newspapers began to speculate which teams might be considered the best in the country. Secondly, although the number of clubs was growing, many were slow to affiliate to the Association, leaving it short of money. Establishing a central championship held the prospect of enticing GAA clubs to process their affiliations, just as the establishment of theFA Cup had done much in the 1870s to promote the development of theFootball Association in England. The championships were open to all affiliated clubs who would first compete in county-based competitions, to be run by local county committees. The winners of each county championship would then proceed to represent that county in the All-Ireland series.^[2] For the first and only time in its history the All-Ireland Championship used an open draw format. Six teams entered the first championship, however, this number increased to nine in 1888. Because of this, and in an effort to reduce travelling costs, the GAA decided to introduce provincial championships.

The inaugural Munster Championship featuredClare,Cork,Limerick,Tipperary andWaterford. Cork and Tipperary contested the first match on Sunday 27 May 1888, as part of a hurling-football double-header between the counties atButtevant. Clare defeated Limerick in the first semi-final, however, Limerick were later awarded the game as Clare championsNewmarket-on-Fergus used players from other clubs to supplement their team. Such a format was not yet allowed. The inaugural Munster SFC final between Tipperary and Limerick was to be played on Saturday 10 November 1888, however, no game was played as Tipperary received a walkover from Limerick.

Postponements, disqualifications, objections, withdrawals and walkovers were regular occurrences during the initial years of the championship.Kerry became the sixth and final team to enter the championship in1889. On Sunday 6 October 1889, the first Munster SFC final took place. Tipperary won their first title on the field of play after a 1–2 to 0–3 defeat of Cork. Since then the championship title has been awarded every year, except in 1921, when the championship was cancelled due to the ongoingCivil War.

The championship has been dominated by Kerry, and to a lesser extent Cork, who have won the title every year since 1936, with the exception of victories by Tipperary in 2020 and Clare in 1992.

Limerick have lost too many Munster SFC finals since 1896, but Waterford have been without a Munster SFC final appearance since 1960.

The first 15 years of the Munster SFC saw the most equitable era in its history with five of the six participating teams claiming the title. Cork led the way by claiming seven titles, closely followed by five for Tipperary, who also became the first team to retain the title. Limerick, Waterford and Kerry all claimed one title apiece during this era. In winning the1903 Munster SFC final, Kerry claimed the first of a new record of three successive titles and set in train a level of championship dominance that continues to the present day. This record was bested in each of the following decades with Kerry winning four-a-in-a-row between1912 and1915, five-in-a-row between1923 and1927, six-in-a-row between1929 and1934, seven-in-a-row between1936 and1942 and eight-in-a-row between1958 and1965. The dominance continued with Kerry claiming 20 of the 25 available Munster SFC titles between1958 and1982. Since the turn of the 20th century, Cork had claimed titles in almost every decade, including several back-to-back successes, but had never enjoyed a prolonged period of dominance. Cork won the1987 Munster final, bringing an end to a run of success by a Kerry team that has since come to be regarded as the greatest of all time and securing the first of seven Munster SFC titles over the following nine seasons.^[3] For the first time in 100 years, Cork ended the nineties as the "team of the decade" after winning five Munster SFC titles in total. The first two decades of the 21st century has seen Kerry win 15 of a possible 20 Munster SFC titles.

The Munster Senior Football Championship has always been aknockout tournament whereby once a team is defeated they are eliminated from the championship. In the early years the pairings were drawn at random and there was no seeding. Each match was played as a single leg. If a match ended in a draw there was a replay. Drawn replays were settled with extra time; however, if both sides were still level at the end of extra time a second replay took place and so on until a winner was found. Extra-time was eventually adopted in the event of a draw for all championship games except the final.

The dominance of Kerry and, to a lesser extent, Cork led to both these teams being seeded on opposite sides of the championship draw. This was later viewed as a mean of penalising the other "weaker" teams. While it might be possible to beat one of these teams it was deemed near impossible to beat the two strongest teams in the province in a single championship season. This practice was eventually abolished for 1991 with a return to the open draw in advance of the1992 championship, which eventually sawClare become the first "non-traditional" champions since1935. In 2020Tipperary won a Munster SFC title for the first time since 1935.

The Munster Council abandoned the open draw and returned to a system of seeding both Cork and Kerry on opposite sides before the2008 championship.^[4] After an outcry, the open draw was reinstated in2009 after just one season of seeding.^[5] The policy of seeding Cork and Kerry returned once again in2013, however, it was abandoned after just one season and the open draw has remained in place ever since.^[6][7]

The Munster SFC has always been an integral part of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship. Between1888 and2000 the Munster final winners automatically qualified for the All-Ireland SFC semi-final. The introduction of the All-Ireland Qualifiers system in 2001 allowed the five defeated teams a second chance of qualifying the All-Ireland SFC, while the Munster SFC champions received a bye to the All-Ireland SFC quarter-final.

Waterford no Munster SFC final since 1960 hold the longest record and weakest team in the province to this day.

• 1941-1942 Limerick not part of the championship due toFoot and Mouth,Kerry were a bye to Munster final in 1941.
• 1943-1948 Open draw all 6 teams involved.
• 1949-1950 Limerick not part of the championship.
• 1951-1952 Open draw all 6 teams involved.
• 1953–1964 Limerick did not take part expect in 1955 Limerick were approved to host Waterford but withdrew match was cancelled due to a dispute over the eligibility of players.^{[clarification needed]}
• 1954 Clare skipped a year.
• 1965 Cork and Kerry byes to semi-finals.
• 1966 Kerry and Limerick byes to semi-finals.
• 1967–1979 Seeded draw meaning Cork and Kerry only allowed to meet in the final.
• 1980 Two First round games, One Quarter-final, one Semi-final with Cork a bye team and Kerry bye to the final.
• 1981–1990 Seeded draw meaning Cork and Kerry only allowed to meet in the final.
• 1991–1996 Open draw straight forward.
• 1997–1998 One First round game, One Quarter-final and two Semi-finals.
• 1999–2007 Open draw straight forward.
• 2008 Seeded draw meaning Cork and Kerry only allowed to meet in the final.
• 2009–2013 Open draw straight forward.
• 2014 Seeded draw meaning Cork and Kerry only allowed to meet in the final.
• 2015 Open draw but two teams reach final are byes to semi-final.^{[clarification needed]}

• Clare 2–10 – 0–12 Kerry (19 July1992): Clare, who were1991 Senior B champions and 1992 league quarter-finalists, carried their momentum into the Munster SFC final and defeated Kerry. It was their first Munster SFC title since 1917.
• Cork 1–12 – 0–13 Kerry (8 November2020): Kerry, aiming for their eight provincial title in a row, were defeated by Cork in the semi-finals.
• Tipperary 0–17 – 0–14 Cork (22 November2020): Tipperary defeated Cork to secure their first Munster SFC title in 85 years.
• Clare 0–14 – 0–13 Cork (9 April2023): Clare, who needed to reach the Munster SFC final to qualify for the All-Ireland SFC, beat Cork for the first time since 1997, doing so in the quarter-final.

The Munster Senior Football Championship is asingle elimination tournament. Each team is afforded only one defeat before being eliminated from the championship. Pairings for matches are drawn at random and there is currently no seeding. Each match is played as a single leg. If a match is drawn there is a period of extra time, however, if both sides are still level at the end of extra time a replay takes place and so on until a winner is found.

The Munster SFC champion and runner-up qualify for theAll-Ireland Senior Football Championship group stage.

Qualification to theAll-Ireland Senior Football Championship and theTailteann Cup^[8] are linked with theprovincial championships and theNational Football League. The Munster SFC finalists, along with the six other provincial finalists, qualify for theAll-Ireland SFC group stage as top seeds. The other eight spots in the All-Ireland SFC are allocated to theTailteann Cup holders and the seven highest ranked counties in the National Football League that have not qualified. Teams that fail to reach the Munster SFC final and are not ranked high enough in the league qualify for theTailteann Cup.

Six counties competed in the2025 Munster Senior Football Championship:

County team	Location	Stadium	Position in2025 Championship	Munster SFC titles	Last Munster SFC title	All-Ireland SFC titles	Last All-Ireland SFC title
Clare	Ennis	Cusack Park	Runner-up	2	1992	0	—
Cork	Cork	Páirc Uí Chaoimh	Semi-finalist	37	2012	7	2010
Kerry	Tralee	Austin Stack Park	Winner	86	2025	38	2022
Limerick	Limerick	Gaelic Grounds	Quarter-finalist	1	1896	2	1896
Tipperary	Thurles	Semple Stadium	Semi-finalist	10	2020	4	1920
Waterford	Waterford	Walsh Park	Quarter-finalist	1	1898	0	—

The following teams have competed in the Munster SFC for at least one season.

County team	Manager	Captain(s)	Sponsors
Clare	Peter Keane	Eoin Cleary	Pat O'Donnell
Cork	John Cleary	Brian Hurley	Sports Direct
Kerry	Jack O'Connor	David Clifford	Kerry Group
Limerick	Mark Fitzgerald	Iain Corbett and Donal O'Sullivan	None
Tipperary	Philly Ryan	Conor Sweeney	Fiserv
Waterford	Vacant	Dermot Ryan	Cognizant

At the end of the Munster SFC final, the winning team is presented with a trophy. The Munster Cup is held by the winning team until the following year's final. Traditionally, the presentation is made at a special rostrum in the stand where GAA and political dignitaries and special guests view the match.

The cup is decorated with ribbons in the colours of the winning team. During the game the cup actually has both teams' sets of ribbons attached and the runners-up ribbons are removed before the presentation. The winning captain accepts the cup on behalf of his team before giving a short speech. Individual members of the winning team then have an opportunity to come to the rostrum to lift the cup.

The present Munster Cup was first used in 1928, when it was donated by theMunster Council. In 2013, there was a debate around naming the cup in honour of a former player or administrator, however, this was rejected.^[9] In March 2021, the Munster Council deferred a decision to name the trophy, withMichael Hogan andPáidí Ó Sé the two names proposed.^[10]

In accordance with GAA rules, the Munster Council awards up to 26 gold medals to the winners of the Munster SFC final.

• Golden background – Munster SFC winner or runner-up also won the All-Ireland SFC that year.

County team	Title(s)	Runner-up	Winning years	Losing years
Kerry	86	24	1892,1903,1904, 1905, 1908,1909, 1910, 1912,1913,1914, 1915, 1919, 1923,1924, 1925,1926, 1927,1929,1930,1931,1932, 1933, 1934, 1936,1937, 1938,1939,1940,1941, 1942, 1944,1946, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1951,1953, 1954,1955, 1958,1959, 1960, 1961,1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1968,1969,1970, 1972,1975, 1976, 1977,1978,1979,1980,1981, 1982,1984,1985,1986, 1991, 1996,1997, 1998,2000, 2001, 2003,2004, 2005,2007, 2010, 2011, 2013,2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021,2022, 2023, 2024, 2025	1890, 1893, 1900, 1902, 1906, 1918, 1920, 1945, 1952, 1956, 1966, 1967, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1983, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1999,2006, 2008
Cork	37	54	1890, 1891, 1893, 1894, 1897, 1899, 1901, 1906, 1907,1911, 1916, 1928, 1943,1945, 1949, 1952, 1956, 1957, 1966, 1967, 1971,1973, 1974, 1983, 1987, 1988,1989,1990, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1999, 2002, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2012	1889, 1892, 1898, 1903, 1909, 1910, 1913, 1914, 1917, 1935, 1938, 1942, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2007, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
Tipperary	10	18	1888,1889,1895,1900, 1902, 1918,1920, 1922, 1935, 2020	1894, 1899, 1907, 1923, 1926, 1928, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1939, 1943, 1944, 1993, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2016
Clare	2	15	1917, 1992	1912, 1915, 1916, 1919, 1925, 1929, 1936, 1937, 1941, 1949, 1997, 2012, 2023, 2024, 2025
Limerick	1	13	1896	1888, 1895, 1901, 1905, 1922, 1934, 1965, 1991, 2003, 2004, 2009, 2010, 2022
Waterford	1	9	1898	1891, 1896, 1904, 1908, 1911, 1940, 1946, 1957, 1960

Below is a record of each county's performance following the introduction of the qualifier system to the All-Ireland series in 2001. Before 2001 only the Munster SFC title winner contested the All-Ireland SFC. Qualifiers did not occur from 2020–2021 due to theimpact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Gaelic games. They are no longer held, with weaker teams instead playing in theTailteann Cup.

Key

Legend

• 1st – Winner
• 2nd – Finalist
• SF/QF – Semi-finalist / Quarter-finalist

Team	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	Years
Clare	SF	SF	SF	SF	SF	SF	SF	QF	QF	QF	2nd	11
Cork	2nd	2nd	2nd	SF	2nd	2nd	2nd	2nd	2nd	SF	QF	11
Kerry	1st	1st	1st	1st	1st	1st	1st	SF	1st	1st	1st	11
Limerick	QF	QF	QF	QF	QF	QF	SF	SF	SF	2nd	SF	11
Tipperary	QF	SF	SF	2nd	SF	SF	QF	1st	SF	SF	SF	11
Waterford	SF	QF	QF	QF	QF	QF	QF	QF	QF	QF	QF	11

Team	No.	Years
Kerry	13	2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019, 2020,2021,2022,2023,2024,2025
Cork	12	2013,2014,2015, 2016,2017,2018,2019,2020,2021, 2022, 2024, 2025
Tipperary	10	2014, 2015,2016, 2017, 2018,2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025
Clare	10	2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019,2023,2024,2025
Limerick	5	2019, 2020, 2021,2022, 2023
Waterford	2	2013, 2024

• Kerry (1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965)
• Kerry (1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982)

• Kerry (1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942)
• Kerry (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)

• Kerry (1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934)

• Kerry (1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927)
• Kerry (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025)

• Kerry (1912, 1913, 1914, 1915)
• Cork (1987, 1988, 1989, 1990)

• Kerry (1903, 1904, 1905)
• Kerry (1908, 1909, 1910)
• Kerry (1946, 1947, 1948)
• Kerry (1953, 1954, 1955)
• Kerry (1968, 1969, 1970)
• Kerry (1984, 1985, 1986)
• Cork (1993, 1994, 1995)
• Kerry (1996, 1997, 1998)
• Kerry (2003, 2004, 2005)

• Tipperary (1888, 1889)
• Cork (1890, 1891)
• Cork (1893, 1894)
• Cork (1906, 1907)
• Kerry (1950, 1951)
• Cork (1956, 1957)
• Cork (1966, 1967)
• Cork (1973, 1974)
• Kerry (2000, 2001)
• Cork (2008, 2009)
• Kerry (2010, 2011)

• Cork (1897, 1899, 1901, 1911, 1916, 1928, 1943, 1945, 1949, 1952, 1971, 1983, 1999, 2002, 2006, 2012)
• Tipperary (1895, 1900, 1902, 1918, 1920, 1922, 1935, 2020)
• Kerry (1892, 1919, 1944, 1972, 1991, 2007)
• Clare (1917, 1992)
• Limerick (1896)
• Waterford (1898)

The most successful team of each decade, judged by number of Munster SFC titles, is as follows:

• 1880s: 2 forTipperary (1888–89)
• 1890s: 6 forCork (1890-91-93-94-97-99)
• 1900s: 5 forKerry (1903-04-05-08-09)
• 1910s: 6 forKerry (1910-12-13-14-15-19)
• 1920s: 6 forKerry (1923-24-25-26-27-29)
• 1930s: 9 forKerry (1930-31-32-33-34-36-37-38-39)
• 1940s: 7 forKerry (1940-41-42-44-46-47-48)
• 1950s: 7 forKerry (1950-51-53-54-55-58-59)
• 1960s: 8 forKerry (1960-61-62-63-64-65-68-69)
• 1970s: 7 forKerry (1970-72-75-76-77-78-79)
• 1980s: 6 forKerry (1980-81-82-84-85-86)
• 1990s: 5 forCork (1990-93-94-95-99)
• 2000s: 6 forKerry (2000-01-03-04-05-07)
• 2010s: 9 forKerry (2010-11-13-14-15-16-17-18-19)
• 2020s: 5 forKerry (2021-22-23-24-25)

• Most championships
  • 86,Kerry (1892, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1919, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1944, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1991, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025)
• Most second-place finishes
  • 54,Cork (1889, 1892, 1898, 1903, 1909, 1910, 1913, 1914, 1917, 1935, 1938, 1942, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2007, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021)
• Most semi-final finishes
  • Tipperary
• Most quarter-final finishes
  • Waterford

Year	Debutants	Total
1888	Clare,Cork,Limerick,Tipperary,Waterford	5
1889	Kerry	1
1890–	None	0
Total		6

• Longest gaps between successive Munster SFC titles:
  • 85 years:Tipperary (1935–2020)
  • 75 years:Clare (1917–1992)
  • 16 years:Tipperary (1902–1918)
  • 15 years:Cork (1928–1943)
  • 13 years:Tipperary (1922–1935)
  • 12 years:Cork (1916–1928)
  • 11 years:Kerry (1892–1903)
• Longest gaps between successive Munster SFC finals:
  • 49 years:Tipperary (1944–1993)
  • 43 years:Clare (1949–1992)
  • 31 years:Limerick (1934–1965)
  • 29 years:Waterford (1911–1940)
  • 26 years:Limerick (1965–1991)
  • 17 years:Limerick (1905–1922)
  • 15 years:Clare (1997–2012)
  • 14 years:Tipperary (2002–2016)
  • 12 years:Limerick (1922–1934)
  • 12 years:Limerick (1991–2003)
  • 12 years:Limerick (2010–2022)
  • 11 years:Tipperary (1907–1918)
  • 11 years:Cork (1917–1928)
  • 11 years:Waterford (1946–1957)
  • 11 years:Clare (2012–2023)

• Longest active gaps since a Munster SFC title:
  • 129 years:Limerick (1896–)
  • 127 years:Waterford (1898–)
  • 33 years:Clare (1992–)
  • 13 years:Cork (2012–)
  • 5 years:Tipperary (2020–)
• Longest active gaps since Munster SFC final appearance:
  • 65 years:Waterford (1960–)
  • 5 years:Tipperary (2020–)
  • 4 years:Cork (2021–)
  • 3 years:Limerick (2022–)

• The record for the longest unbeaten run stands at 18 games, and is held byKerry. They achieved this feat on three separate occasions: 1936–1943, 1958–1966 and 1975–1983.

Legend

As of 4 May 2025 (after Munster SFC final).

#	Team	Pld	W	D	L	Points
1	Kerry	12	11	0	1	22
2	Tipperary	11	6	0	5	12
3	Limerick	10	4	0	6	8
=	Clare	10	4	0	6	8
=	Cork	10	4	0	6	8
6	Waterford	7	1	0	6	2

• Clare:Francis McInerney (1992)
• Cork:Graham Canty (2012)
• Kerry:David Clifford (2023)
• Limerick:Con Fitzgerald (1896)
• Tipperary:Conor Sweeney (2020)
• Waterford:James Wall (1898)

Managers in the Munster SFC are involved in the day-to-day running of the team, including the training, team selection, and sourcing of players from the club championships. Their influence varies from county-to-county and is related to the individual county boards. From 2018, all inter-county head coaches must be Award 2 qualified. The manager is assisted by a team of two or three selectors and an extensive backroom team consisting of various coaches. Prior to the development of the concept of a manager in the 1970s, teams were usually managed by a team of selectors with one member acting as chairman.

Manager	Team	Wins	Winning years
Mick O'Dwyer	Kerry	11	1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1986
Billy Morgan	Cork	8	1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995, 2006
Jack O'Connor	Kerry	7	2004, 2005, 2010, 2011, 2022, 2023, 2024
Páidí Ó Sé	Kerry	6	1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2003
Éamonn Fitzmaurice	Kerry	6	2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
Jackie Lyne	Kerry	3	1968, 1969, 1970
Donie O'Donovan	Cork	3	1971, 1973, 1974
Conor Counihan	Cork	3	2008, 2009, 2012
Larry Tompkins	Cork	2	1999, 2002
Peter Keane	Kerry	2	2019, 2021
Johnny Culloty	Kerry	1	1972
Éamonn Ryan	Cork	1	1983
Mickey Ned O'Sullivan	Kerry	1	1991
John Maughan	Clare	1	1992
Pat O'Shea	Kerry	1	2007
David Power	Tipperary	1	2020

Manager	County	Appointed	Time as manager
Colm Collins	Clare	23 October 2013	11 years, 254 days
David Power	Tipperary	24 September 2019	5 years, 283 days
Jack O'Connor	Kerry	4 October 2021[42]	3 years, 273 days
Ephie Fitzgerald	Waterford	22 October 2021[43]	3 years, 255 days
John Cleary	Cork	13 April 2022[44]	3 years, 73 days
Ray Dempsey	Limerick	7 October 2022[45]	2 years, 270 days

• RTÉ broadcasts highlights of the Munster SFC. They are shown through a dedicated highlights programme calledThe Sunday Game. The first edition of the programme was in 1979.
• Since 2017,Sky Sports and RTÉ have shared live coverage of championship matches.^{[needs update]}

Since 1994, the Munster SFC has been sponsored. The sponsor has usually been able to determine the championship's sponsorship name.

Period	Sponsor(s)	Name
1888–1993	No main sponsor	The Munster Championship
1994–2007	Bank of Ireland	The Bank of Ireland Munster Championship
2008–2009	Toyota,Ulster Bank,Vodafone	The Munster GAA Football Championship
2010	SuperValu,Ulster Bank,Vodafone	The Munster GAA Football Championship
2011–2013	SuperValu,Ulster Bank,Eircom	The Munster GAA Football Championship
2014	SuperValu,GAAGO,Eircom	The Munster GAA Football Championship
2015	SuperValu,AIB,Eircom	The Munster GAA Football Championship
2016–present	SuperValu,AIB,Eir	The Munster GAA Football Championship

Munster SFC matches were traditionally played at neutral venues or at a location that was deemed to be halfway between the two participants; however, all of the teams eventually came to home and away agreements. Every second meeting between these teams is played at the home venue of one of them.

While the six county grounds have regularly been used for championship matches in recent times, smaller club grounds have historically been used for games which may not have had such a high-profile. These grounds include:Ned Hall Park inClonmel,FitzGerald Park inKilmallock,Páirc na nGael inAskeaton,Páirc Mac Gearailt inFermoy,Hennessy Memorial Park inMilltown Malbay andFrank Sheehy Park inListowel.

Stadium attendances are a significant source of regular income for theMunster Council and for the teams involved. For the2019 championship, average attendances were 6,146 with a total aggregate attendance figure of 30,731. Excluding the final, these figures revealed a drop of 49% recorded from those through the turnstiles the previous year.^[46][47]

County team	Location	Province	Stadium	Capacity
Clare	Ennis	Munster	Cusack Park	19,000
Cork	Cork	Munster	Páirc Uí Chaoimh	45,000
Kerry	Killarney	Munster	Fitzgerald Stadium	38,000
Limerick	Limerick	Munster	Gaelic Grounds	44,023
Tipperary	Thurles	Munster	Semple Stadium	45,690
Waterford	Waterford	Munster	Fraher Field	15,000

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