2000 Kerry Senior Hurling Championship

2000 Kerry Senior Hurling Championship
Dates8 July – 19 November 2000
Teams10
SponsorAIB
Champions Ballyheigue (5th title)
Mike Slattery (captain)
John Lucid (manager)
Runners-up Ballyduff
Kenneth Boyle (captain)
Jimmy O'Sullivan (manager)
Tournament statistics
Matches played10
Goals scored23 (2.3 per match)
Points scored181 (18.1 per match)
Top scorer(s) Mike Hennessy (5-15)
1999 (Previous) (Next) 2001

The 2000 Kerry Senior Hurling Championship was the 99th staging of the Kerry Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Kerry County Board in 1889. The championship draw was made on 9 May 2000. The championship ran from 8 July to 19 November 2000.

Lixnaw entered the championship as the defending champions, however, they were beaten by Crotta O'Neill's in a quarter-final replay.[1]

The final was played on 19 November 2000 at Austin Stack Park in Tralee, between Ballyheigue and Ballyduff, in what was their third meeting in the final overall and a first final meeting in four years.[2] Ballyheigue won the match by 1–06 to 0–08 to claim their fifth championship title overall and a first title in three years.[3] It remains their last championship victory.

Ballyduff's Mike Hennessy was the championship's top scorer with 5–15.

  1. ^ "Club Titles - Kerry". Hogan Stand. Retrieved 7 August 2023.
  2. ^ "Pride of parish will be very evident at Sunday's hurling final". The Kerryman. 17 November 2000. Retrieved 7 August 2023.
  3. ^ "Ballyduff to justify favouritism against O'Dorney". The Kerryman. 15 September 2005. Retrieved 7 August 2023.

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