Previous Championship Encounters
This particular fixture has been infrequent in the history of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship due to the provincial structure of the championship from 1888 to 1996. Kilkenny have played Limerick a total of eight times in the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship. As of 2007 the scores were level with both Kilkenny and Limerick recording four victories over each other.
| Year | Venue | Competition | Kilkenny score |
Limerick score |
Match report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1897 | Croke Park, Dublin | All-Ireland Hurling Final | 2–4 (10) | 3–4 (13) | |
| 1933 | Croke Park, Dublin | All-Ireland Hurling Final | 1–7 (10) | 0–6 (6) | |
| 1935 | Croke Park, Dublin | All-Ireland Hurling Final | 2–5 (11) | 2–4 (10) | |
| 1936 | Croke Park, Dublin | All-Ireland Hurling Final | 1–5 (8) | 5–6 (21) | |
| 1940 | Croke Park, Dublin | All-Ireland Hurling Final | 1–7 (10) | 3–7 (16) | |
| 1973 | Croke Park, Dublin | All-Ireland Hurling Final | 1–14 (17) | 1–21 (24) | |
| 1974 | Croke Park, Dublin | All-Ireland Hurling Final | 3–19 (28) | 1–13 (16) | |
| 2005 | Croke Park, Dublin | All-Ireland Hurling Quarter-Final | 0–18 (18) | 0–13 (13) |
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