The 2001 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship was the 111th staging of the

Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship The Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the FBD Insurance Tipperary County Senior Hurling Championship) is an annual hurling competition organised by the Tipperary GAA, Tipperary County Board of the Gaelic Ath ...

since its establishment by the Tipperary County Board in 1887. The championship ran from 14 October to 11 November 2001.

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were the defending champions. On 11 November 2001, Toomevara won the title after a 1–22 to 1–13 defeat of Thurles Sarsfields in the final at

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. It was their 17th championship title overall and their fourth title in succession.

Results

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Championship statistics

Top scorers

;Top scorers overall ;Top scorers in a single game

Miscellaneous

become the first team to win four in a row since Thurles Sarsfields between 1961 and 1964. * Loughmore-Castleiney was thrown out of the championship for refusing to play

extra time Overtime (OT) or extra time (ET) is an additional period of play to bring a game to a decision and avoid declaring the match a tie or draw where the scores are the same. In some sports, this extra period is played only if the game is required t ...

in their drawn quarter-final against

. A successful appeal to the Munster Council allowed the club to be subsequently reinstated.

References

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