1997 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship

All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship 1997
Championship Details
Dates	23 April 1997 - 14 September 1997
Teams	14
All Ireland Champions
Winners	Clare (1st win)
Captain	John Reddan
Manager	Kevin Kennedy
All Ireland Runners-up
Runners-up	Galway
Captain	Eoin McDonagh
Manager	John Fahey
Provincial Champions
Munster	Tipperary
Leinster	Kilkenny
Ulster	Antrim
Connacht	Not Played
Championship Statistics
Matches Played	16
← 1996 1998 →

The 1997 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship was the 67th staging of the All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1928. The championship began on 23 April 1997 and ended on 14 September 1997.

Tipperary entered the championship as the defending champions, however, they were defeated by Galway in the All-Ireland semi-final.

On 14 September 1997 Clare won the championship following a 1-11 to 1-9 defeat of Galway in the All-Ireland final. It was their first All-Ireland title and the first to be won by a team which was beaten in the earlier rounds.

The "back-door" system

Since its inception in 1928 the championship had been played on a straight knock-out basis. If any team was defeated at any stage of the provincial or All-Ireland competitions it meant automatic elimination. This system was deemed the fairest as the All-Ireland champions would always be the team who won all of their games. There were some problems with this system. Over the years Galway had become the only credible hurling team in Connacht, thus giving them an automatic pass into the All-Ireland semi-finals every year. Similarly in Ulster there were many problems as hurling was much weaker and confined to a small few counties in the north-east of the province.

In 1995 the Hurling Development Committee began investigating a way of improving hurling in general and revamping the senior and minor championships. Their proposals involved allowing the defeated Munster and Leinster finalists to re-enter the All-Ireland championship. While the two provincial final winners would automatically qualify for the All-Ireland semi-finals the two defeated provincial teams would join Galway and the Ulster champions in two play-off games or "quarter-finals". The two winners from these two games would then qualify for the semi-finals where they would be drawn against the Leinster and Munster champions. Repeat games would be avoided in the All-Ireland semi-final stage.

At the start of 1996 these proposals looked unlikely of being introduced, however, a whistle-stop tour undertaken by the committee's secretary Frank Murphy and Pat Daly, the GAA's Games Development Officer, had changed the position. In April 1996 the committee's proposals were accepted at the GAA's annual congress. Most counties supported the new proposals and motion 15 (a) was passed with more than a two-thirds majority.

Results

Leinster Minor Hurling Championship

Quarter-final

10 May 1997 Quarter-final	Wexford	3-9 - 5-11	Kilkenny	O'Kennedy Park
				Referee: P Ahern

Semi-finals

28 June 1997 Semi-final	Laois	1-10 - 1-12	Offaly	O'Moore Park
				Referee: J Guinan

2 July 1997 Semi-final	Kilkenny	0-11 - 2-5	Dublin	Nowlan Park

5 July 1997 Semi-final replay	Dublin	1-4 - 3-17	Kilkenny	Parnell Park

Final

13 July 1997 Final	Kilkenny	3-16 - 0-10	Offaly	Croke Park
				Referee: D Murphy

Munster Minor Hurling Championship

Quarter-final

23 April 1997 Quarter-final	Tipperary	3-9 - 1-12	Waterford	Páirc Mac Gearailt
				Referee: W Horgan

Semi-final

7 May 1997 Semi-final	Limerick	0-13 - 1-15	Tipperary	Gaelic Grounds
				Referee: A Sullivan

8 May 1997 Semi-final	Cork	0-10 - 0-12	Clare	FitzGerald Park
				Referee: J Sexton

Final

6 July 1997 Final	Tipperary	2-13 - 1-13	Clare	Páirc Uí Chaoimh
				Referee: G Harrington

Ulster Minor Hurling Championship

Semi-final

22 June 1997 Semi-final	Down	2-11 - 1-11	Derry	Casement Park
				Referee: G Devlin

Final

6 July 1997 Final	Antrim	3-14 - 1-10	Down	Casement Park
				Referee: G Devlin

All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship

Quarter-finals

26 July 1997 Quarter-final	Antrim	1-4 - 0-13	Clare	St. Tiernach's Park
				Referee: P Ahern

27 July 1997 Quarter-final	Galway	3-12 - 0-10	Offaly	Semple Stadium
				Referee: M Wadding

Semi-finals

10 August 1997 Semi-final	Kilkenny	1-7 - 0-13	Clare	Croke Park
				Referee: G Harrington

17 August 1997 Semi-final	Tipperary	0-14 - 2-9	Galway	Croke Park
				Referee: T McIntyre

Final

14 September 2014 Final	Clare	1-11 - 1-9	Galway	Croke Park
				Referee: M Wadding

External links

All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championships

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