The 2001 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship was the 114th staging of Ireland's premier hurling knock-out competition. Tipperary won the championship, beating Galway 2-18 to 2-15 in the final at Croke Park, Dublin.

Calendar

Format

The All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship was run on a provincial basis as usual. All games were played on a knockout basis whereby once a team lost they were eliminated from the championship. The format for the All-Ireland series of games ran as follows:

Team changes

To Championship

Promoted from the All-Ireland Intermediate Hurling Championship

From Championship

Regraded to the All-Ireland Intermediate Hurling Championship

Teams

General information

Twenty-one counties will compete in the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship: one team in the Connacht Senior Hurling Championship, ten teams in the Leinster Senior Hurling Championship, five teams in the Munster Senior Hurling Championship and five teams in the Ulster Senior Hurling Championship.

Provincial championships

Leinster Senior Hurling Championship

Munster Senior Hurling Championship

Ulster Senior Hurling Championship

Desipte the Foot and Mouth and London withdraw from the football championship they remained in the Hurling championship at the time.

All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship

Bracket

Note: * = Provincial Champion

All-Ireland quarter-finals

All-Ireland semi-finals

All-Ireland Final

Championship statistics

Top scorers

Overall

Single game

Miscellaneous