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All Ireland Schoolboys Hockey Championship

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The All Ireland Schoolboys Hockey Championship is an annual competition involving the strongest schools affiliated to Hockey Ireland. The competition is held in the Autumn term of each school year and 16 teams across the island compete.

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Wesley College, Dublin, are the current champions, having defeated The High School 3-0 in the 2025 final at Villiers School, Limerick

Venues

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

History

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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

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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

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Finals

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1982-1988

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Year Venue Winner Runner-up Notes
1982 Bangor Newry High School Banbridge Academy
1983 Dublin Newry High School Wallace High School, Lisburn
1984 Cork Newry High School Wallace High School, Lisburn
1985 Cookstown Methodist College Belfast Wallace High School, Lisburn
1986 Kilkenny Royal Belfast Academical Institution Bandon Grammar School
1987 Limerick Wallace High School, Lisburn Methodist College Belfast
1988 Lisburn Royal Belfast Academical Institution Banbridge Academy

1989-1998

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1999-2008

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2009-

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Year Venue Winner Runner-up Notes
2009 Belfast Wesley College, Dublin 3 2 Wallace High School, Lisburn Extra time - Silver goal[3]
2010 Dublin Banbridge Academy 4 2 St. Andrew's College, Dublin [4]
2011 Cork Banbridge Academy 2 1 Cookstown High School [5]
2012 Belfast St. Andrew's College, Dublin 3 1 Wesley College, Dublin [6]
2013 Dublin St. Andrew's College, Dublin 6 1 Wesley College, Dublin [7]
2014 Cork St. Andrew's College, Dublin 3 1 Wallace High School, Lisburn [8]
2015 Belfast Banbridge Academy 3 2 Wesley College, Dublin [9]
2016 Dublin St. Andrew's College, Dublin 3 2 Banbridge Academy [10]
2017 Cork St. Andrew's College, Dublin 1 (4) 1 (1) Wesley College, Dublin Penalty Strokes[11]
2018 Belfast Newtown School Waterford 1 0 Banbridge Academy
2019 Dublin The High School, Dublin 2 (7) 2 (6) St. Andrew's College, Dublin Penalty Strokes [12]

2020-

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Year Venue Winner Runner-up Notes
2020 Belfast No Competition 0 0 No Competition
2021 Dublin Bandon Grammar School 2 (3) 2 (1) Banbridge Academy Shuttles [13]
2022 Cork Banbridge Academy 2 (3) 2 (1) The High School Shuttles[citation needed]
2023 Banbridge Wallace High School, Lisburn 1 (4) 1 (3) Newtown School Shuttles [14]
2024 Dublin Banbridge Academy 1 0 Friends School Lisburn [15]
2025 Limerick Wesley College, Dublin 3 0 The High School

Sources

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  1. ↑ "Belfast Newsletter Final Report 2007-08". Retrieved 2007-10-27.
  2. ↑ "Irish Times Final Report 2008-09". The Irish Times. 2008-10-10. Retrieved 2008-10-28.
  3. ↑ "Chadwick's silver goal strikes gold for Wesley". Hook Hockey. 2009-10-23. Archived from the original on January 16, 2018. Retrieved 2009-10-23.
  4. ↑ "Irish Independent Final Report 2010-11". 2010-10-23. Retrieved 2010-10-25.
  5. ↑ "Bann win back-to-back Schoolboys champs". Archived from the original on November 7, 2011. Retrieved 2011-11-01.
  6. ↑ "St Andrew's defeat Wesley to clinch All-Ireland honours". Irish Times. 2012-10-27. Retrieved 2012-10-29.
  7. ↑ "St Andrew's celebrate six of the best". Hook Hockey. 2013-10-25. Archived from the original on January 16, 2018. Retrieved 2013-10-25.
  8. ↑ "Andrew's join illustrious company with third successive All-Ireland Schoolboys victory". Hook Hockey. 2014-10-24. Archived from the original on May 28, 2017. Retrieved 2014-10-24.
  9. ↑ "Rowe lines up trio of drag-flicks to propel Bann win". Hook Hockey. 2015-10-23. Archived from the original on May 28, 2017. Retrieved 2015-10-23.
  10. ↑ "Andrew's in a Walker wonderland as Saints eventually see off Bann in All-Ireland final". Hook Hockey. 2016-10-28. Archived from the original on January 16, 2018. Retrieved 2016-10-28.
  11. ↑ "Stroke Judge-ment works for Andrew's to land seventh All-Ireland title". Hook Hockey. 2017-10-28. Archived from the original on January 16, 2018. Retrieved 2017-10-28.
  12. ↑ "High School complete amazing rise from obscurity to All Ireland Champions". Hook Hockey. 2019-10-25. Archived from the original on October 28, 2019.
  13. ↑ Ireland Hockey. "Bandon GS leave it late to end 17-year All-Ireland wait – Hockey Ireland". Archived from the original on 31 March 2022. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  14. ↑ "ALL IRELAND SCHOOLS BOYS' CHAMPIONSHIPS FINAL 2023 – Hockey Ireland". 27 October 2023.
  15. ↑ "All Ireland Schoolboys Hockey Championship Finals 2024 – Hockey Ireland". 24 October 2023.
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