All Ireland Schoolboys Hockey Championship

Venues

The venue of the competition is on a three-year rota between Munster, Leinster and Ulster

History

The competition began in the 1982 school year. It was initially dominated by schools from Ulster, with the first fourteen winners coming from that province. The monopoly was finally broken in 1996-97 15th tournament, when Newpark School from Dublin became the first winners from Leinster. Ashton were the first school from Munster to win the All Ireland tournament. In 2019 all four semifinalists hailed from Leinster, with eventual winners, The High School, defeating King's Hospital 1-0 to reach their first ever final. The same scoreline stood in the other semi, where Wesley College were beaten by tournament runners-up St. Andrew's College.

Format

Sixteen teams compete in the finals. The teams are drawn into four pools with four teams each. Each team plays the other three teams in their group once. Each group winner then play one of the other group winners in a semi-final match. The two semi-final winners then play each other in the final. The winner of the final is presented with the Tasmanian Shield. The four 2nd ranked teams in the Pools qualify to compete for the subsidiary trophy, the Herbie Sharman Trophy.

Performance table

Finals

1982-1988

1989-1998

1999-2008

2009-

2020-

Sources

References

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