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2023 Munster SFC

Tournament details
Year	2023
Winners
Champions	Kerry (84th win)
Manager	Jack O'Connor
Captain	David Clifford
Runners-up
Runners-up	Clare
Manager	Colm Collins
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The 2023 Munster Senior Football Championship was the 2023 installment of the annual Munster Senior Football Championship organised by the Munster GAA. Kerry were defending champions.

Draw

Limerick and Kerry, finalists from the 2022 championship, received a bye to the semi-finals.

Teams

General Information

Six counties will compete in the Munster Senior Football Championship:

County	Last Championship Title	Last All-Ireland Title	Position in 2022 Championship
Clare	1992	—	Quarter-finals
Cork	2012	2010	Semi-finals
Kerry	2022	2022	Champions
Limerick	1896	1896	Runners-up
Tipperary	2020	1920	Semi-finals
Waterford	1898	—	Quarter-finals

Personnel and kits

County	Manager	Captain(s)	Sponsors
Clare	Colm Collins	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	David Power	Conor Sweeney	Fiserv
Waterford	Ephie Fitzgerald	Dermot Ryan	Cognizant

Bracket

	Quarter-finals v t e				Semi-finals				Final
					Clare	1-16
					Limerick	0-16
	Cork	0-13
	Clare	0-14
									Clare	0-15
									Kerry	5-14
	Tipperary	3-09
	Waterford	1-11
					Tipperary	0-05
					Kerry	0-25

Quarter-finals

9 April 2023 Quarter-final	Clare	0-14 - 0-13	Cork	Cusack Park, Ennis Attendance: 3,661 Referee: Fergal Kelly (Longford)
	Keelan Sexton and Eoin Cleary (1f) 0-4 each, Emmet McMahon 0-2, Jamie Malone, Padraic Collins, Gavin Cooney, and Cillian Rouine 0-1 each.	Report	Steven Sherlock 0-10 (7fs, 145), Sean Powter, Rory Maguire, and Kevin O'Donovan 0-1 each.

9 April 2023 Quarter-final	Tipperary	3-09 - 1-11	Waterford	Semple Stadium, Thurles Attendance: 1,443 Referee: James Molloy (Galway)
	Steven O'Brien 1-3, Stephen Quirke 1-1, Sean O'Connor 0-2, Jack Kennedy 0-2, Paudie Feehan 1-0, Colman Kennedy 0-1	Report	Darragh Corcoran 1-4, Jason Curry 0-5, Dermot Ryan 0-2

Semi-finals

22 April 2023 7:00pm Semi-final	Limerick	0-15 - 1-15	Clare	Gaelic Grounds, Limerick Attendance: 3,616 Referee: Liam Devanney (Mayo)
		Report

22 April 2023 4:00pm Semi-final	Kerry	0-25 - 0-05	Tipperary	Fitzgerald Stadium, Killarney Attendance: 6,939 Referee: Conor Lane (Cork)
		Report

Final

Kerry	5-14 - 0-15	Clare
David Clifford 2-6 (0-4f); Dara Moynihan, Tony Brosnan 1-1 each; Paudie Clifford 1-0; Seán O’Shea 0-2 (1 45); Dylan Casey, Gavin White, Paul Geaney, Killian Spillane 0-1 each.	Report	Eoin Cleary 0-6 (4f); Emmet McMahon 0-4 (2f); Stephen Ryan (2f), Keelan Sexton 0-2; Ciarán Russell 0-1.

Stadia and Attendance

County Location Province Stadium Capacity Clare Ennis Munster Cusack Park 19,000 Cork Cork Munster Páirc Uí Chaoimh 45,000 Kerry Tralee 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

Total attendance 28,158 Average attendance 5,632 Highest attendance 12,499 Kerry 5-14 - 0-15 Clare 7 May 2023

Championship statistics

Scoring events

• Widest winning margin: 20 points
  • Kerry 0-25 - 0-05 Tipperary (Semi-finals)
• Most goals in a match: 5
  • Kerry 5-14 - 0-15 Clare (Final)
• Most points in a match: 30
  • Kerry 0-25 - 0-05 Tipperary (Semi-finals)
  • Limerick 0-15 - 1-15 Clare (Semi-finals)
• Most goals by one team in a match: 5
  • Kerry 5-14 - 0-15 Clare (Final)
• Most points by one team in a match: 25
  • Kerry 0-25 - 0-05 Tipperary (Semi-finals)
• Highest aggregate score: 44 points
  • Kerry 5-14 - 0-15 Clare (Final)
• Lowest aggregate score: 27 points
  • Clare 0-14 - 0-13 Cork (Quarter-finals)

Miscellaneous

• Clare beat Cork for the first time since 1997.
• Clare qualified for their first Munster final since 2012.
• It was the first Munster final between Clare and Kerry since 2000 which Kerry won by 3-15 to 0-8.

See also

• 2023 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
• 2023 Connacht Senior Football Championship
• 2023 Leinster Senior Football Championship
• 2023 Ulster Senior Football Championship
• 2023 Tailteann Cup (Tier 2)
• 2023 All-Ireland Junior Football Championship (Tier 3)

References

1. "Kerry cruise to another Munster senior title with 23-point win over Limerick". the42. 28 May 2022. Retrieved 28 May 2022.
2. "Tipperary no match for All-Ireland champions Kerry in one-sided semi-final". Tipperary Live. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
3. "Goal-happy Kerry rout Clare in one-sided Munster final". Irish Examiner. 7 May 2023. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
4. "Elation for Clare in dramatic late point win over Cork". Irish Examiner. 9 April 2023. Retrieved 12 April 2023.

v t e Munster Senior Football Championship
Clare Cork Kerry Limerick Tipperary Waterford
Seasons	...2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
Finals	...2020

• 2023 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
• Munster Senior Football Championship