Clare Intermediate Hurling Championship

Clare Intermediate Hurling Championship
Irish	Craobh Idirmhéanach Iománaíochta Co. an Chláir
Founded	1927
Title holders	Corofin (3rd title)
Most titles	Broadford (8 titles)

The Clare Intermediate Hurling Championship is an annual hurling competition organised by the Clare County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association for the second tier hurling teams in the county of Clare in Ireland.

The series of games are played during the summer and autumn months with the county final currently being played at Cusack Park. The championship includes a group stage which is followed by a knock-out phase for the top teams. There is also promotion involving the Clare Senior Hurling Championship and relegation involving the Clare Junior Hurling Championship.

In 2012 it was decided that from 2014 onwards the Clare Senior Hurling Championship would become a single sixteen team championship. This meant that five clubs would lose their senior status and be relegated down to intermediate. However due to the overwhelming success of both the Clare Senior and Under-21 inter-county squads in 2013, the culling of the senior hurling championship was postponed for twelve months. 2014 saw the relegation of Broadford, Doora-Barefield, Ruan, Scariff and Wolfe Tones down to intermediate for the 2015 season.

The 2023 Intermediate Champions were Corofin who defeated Sixmilebridge by 0-18 to 0-14 to win their third title at this grade and return to senior ranks for 2023.

The 16 clubs are divided into four groups of four. Over the course of the group stage, each team plays once against the others in the group, resulting in each team being guaranteed three group games. Two points are awarded for a win, one for a draw and zero for a loss. The teams are ranked in the group stage table by points gained, then scoring difference and then their head-to-head record. The top two teams in each group qualify for the quarter-finals.

Quarter-finals: The 4 group winners and 4 group runners-up contest this round. A group winner will play a group runner-up of another group. The four winners from these four games advance to the semi-finals.

Semi-finals: The four quarter-final winners contest this round. The two winners from these two games advance to the final.

Final: The two semi-final winners contest the final. The winning team are declared champions and are promoted to the Clare Senior Hurling Championship.

The bottom team in each group compete in the relegation playoffs and the losers will be relegated to the Clare Junior A Hurling Championship.

At the end of the championship, the winning club qualify to the subsequent Munster Intermediate Club Hurling Championship.

The 16 teams competing in the 2024 Clare Intermediate Hurling Championship are:

Club	Location	Colours	Championship titles	Last championship title
Bodyke	Bodyke	Black and amber	5	1996
Broadford	Broadford	Green and Yellow	8	2019
Clarecastle	Clarecastle	Black and white	1	1931
Inagh-Kilnamona	Inagh / Kilnamona	Yellow and Green	2 (one each as individual clubs)	2005
Killanena	Killane	Blue and yellow	1	2010
Newmarket-on-Fergus	Newmarket-on-Fergus	Blue and Gold	1	1967
Ogonnelloe	Ogonnelloe	Black and yellow	1	1995
Parteen-Meelick			1 (as Parteen)	1956
Ruan	Ruan	Yellow and blue	5	2012
Sixmilebridge	Sixmilebridge	Saffron and Blue	5	1990
Smith O'Brien's	Killaloe	Scarlet and amber	2	2021
St. Joseph's Doora-Barefield	Doora / Barefield	Maroon and White	4	2022
Tubber	Tubber	Black and amber	2	1976
Tulla	Tulla	Crimson and gold	1	1979
Whitegate	Whitegate	Red and black	7	2013
Wolfe Tones	Shannon	White and green	2	2015

At the end of the championship, the winning team qualify to the subsequent Munster Intermediate Club Hurling Championship.

#	Club	Titles	Championships won
1	Broadford	8	1941, 1947, 1974, 1981, 1997, 2003, 2008, 2019[1]
2	Whitegate	7	1939 (as Mountshannon), 1942 (as Mountshannon), 1959, 1984, 1992, 2009, 2013
3	Bodyke	5	1932, 1936, 1946, 1969, 1996
	Clonlara	5	1928, 1975, 1989, 1999, 2007
	O'Callaghan's Mills	5	1929 (as Kilkishen), 1933, 1935 (as Kilkishen), 1968, 1977
	Ruan	5	1940, 1948, 1950 (with Dysart), 1978, 2012
	Sixmilebridge	5	1951, 1957 (as Cappa), 1971, 1988, 1990
8	Cratloe	4	1937, 1943, 1970, 1994
	Éire Óg, Ennis	4	1927 (as Ennis Rovers), 1945 (as Ennis Faughs), 1958 (as St. John's, Ennis), 2011
	Feakle	4	1930, 1973, 2014, 2018
	St. Joseph's, Doora-Barefield	4	1985, 1993, 2016, 2022[2]
12	Clooney-Quin	3	1934 (as Clooney), 1986 (as Clooney), 2006
	Corofin	3	1991, 2002, 2023[3]
	Crusheen	3	1960, 1987, 2000
	Scariff	3	1938, 1982, 2020[4]
16	Ballyea	2	1944, 2001
	Our Lady's Mental Hospital, Ennis	2	1952
	Inagh-Kilnamona	2	2005 (as Inagh), 1998 (as Kilnamona)
	Kilmaley	2	1980, 2017
	Smith O'Brien's, Killaloe	2	2004, 2021[5]
	Tubber	2	1972, 1976
	Wolfe Tones, Shannon	2	1983, 2015
23	Clarecastle	1	1931
	Killanena	1	2010
	Newmarket-on-Fergus	1	1967
	Ogonnelloe	1	1995
	Parteen-Meelick	1	1956 (as Parteen)
	Tulla	1	1979

• When Ennis Dalcassians won the 1943 Clare Junior Football Championship, they offered an opportunity to players from fellow junior club, Doora-Barefield, to join with them and enter the Clare Senior Football Championship as the Ennis Faughs. They went on to win four senior football titles in 1947, 1948, 1952 and 1954. The Ennis Faughs also won the 1946 Clare Intermediate Football Championship, and the 1945 Clare Intermediate Hurling Championship. The Ennis Faughs disbanded in 1956.

• Clare Senior Hurling Championship
• Clare Junior A Hurling Championship
• Clare Under-21 A Hurling Championship