The 2016 Galway Senior Hurling Championship was the 119th staging of the Galway Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment in 1887. Sarsfields were the reigning champions. Abbeyknockmoy and Moycullen participated in the senior championship having been promoted from the intermediate competition in 2015.
Fixtures and results
Group stage The Senior A and Senior B Group stage draw was made on 8 March 2016 broadcast live on Galway Bay FM.
Senior A Senior A consists of 12 teams divided into two groups of 6. The top 2 teams from each group will automatically qualify for the quarter-finals. The 3rd and 4th teams from each group will play in preliminary quarter finals. The bottom two teams from each group will cross play with the losers playing in the Senior B competition in 2017.
Senior A - Group 1 {| class="wikitable" !width=20| !width=150 style="text-align:left;"|Team !width=20| !width=20| !width=20| !width=20| !width=30| !width=30| !width=20| !width=20| |-style="background:#98FB98;" |1||align=left| Loughrea ||5||4||0||1||5-86||3-77||15||8 |-style="background:#98FB98;" |2||align=left| Gort ||5||3||1||1||9-76||4-85||6||7 |-style="background:#CCCCFF;" |3||align=left| Sarsfields ||5||2||1||2||3-80||3-79||1||5 |-style="background:#CCCCFF;" |4||align=left| St. Thomas' ||5||2||0||3||5-81||6-70||8||4 |- |5||align=left| Castlegar ||5||2||0||3||9-79||9-81||-1||4 |- |6||align=left| Turloughmore ||5||0||2||3||0-71||6-81||6||2
Senior A - Group 2 {| class="wikitable" !width=20| !width=150 style="text-align:left;"|Team !width=20| !width=20| !width=20| !width=20| !width=30| !width=35| !width=20| !width=20| |-style="background:#98FB98;" |1||align=left| Portumna ||5||4||1||0||6-85||3-75||19||9 |-style="background:#98FB98;" |2||align=left| Craughwell ||5||4||0||1||8-84||4-72||24||8 |-style="background:#CCCCFF;" |3||align=left| Cappataggle ||5||2||1||2||8-80||6-71||15||5 |-style="background:#CCCCFF;" |4||align=left| Padraig Pearses ||5||2||0||3||7-72||5-88||-10||4
|5||align=left| Ardrahan ||5||1||0||4||3-70||11-82||-36||2 |- |6||align=left| Liam Mellows ||5||1||0||4||7-72||10-75||-12||2
Senior A - Relegation
Senior B Senior B consists of 12 teams divided into two groups of 6. The top teams from each group will qualify for preliminary quarter finals and play in the Senior A competition in 2017. The four 2nd and 3rd placed teams will cross play with the winners also qualifying for preliminary quarter finals.
Senior B - Group 1 {| class="wikitable" !width=20| !width=150 style="text-align:left;"|Team !width=20| !width=20| !width=20| !width=20| !width=30| !width=30| !width=20| !width=20| |-style="background:#98FB98;" |1||align=left| Tommy Larkin's ||5||5||0||0||4-81||2-55||32||10 |-style="background:#CCCCFF;" |2||align=left| Abbeyknockmoy ||5||3||0||2||5-82||5-71||11||6 |-style="background:#CCCCFF;" |3||align=left| Beagh ||5||2||1||2||8-70||4-62||20||5 |- |4||align=left| Killimordaly ||5||2||1||2||7-80||7-75||5||5 |- |5||align=left| Moycullen ||5||2||0||1||8-62||7-78||-13||4 |- |6||align=left| Kiltormer ||5||0||0||5||1-56||8-80||-55||0
Senior B - Group 2 {| class="wikitable" !width=20| !width=150 style="text-align:left;"|Team !width=20| !width=20| !width=20| !width=20| !width=30| !width=30| !width=20| !width=20| |-style="background:#98FB98;" |1||align=left| Mullagh ||5||3||2||0||4-80||2-72||14||8 |-style="background:#CCCCFF;" |2||align=left| Tynagh-Abbey/Duniry ||5||4||0||1||9-83||3-57||44||8 |-style="background:#CCCCFF;" |3||align=left| Kilnadeema-Leitrim ||5||3||1||1||6-88||5-72||19||7 |- |4||align=left| Athenry ||5||2||0||3||6-79||3-79||9||4 |- |5||align=left| Clarinbridge ||5||1||1||3||1-71||5-82||-23||3 |- |6||align=left| Carnmore ||5||0||0||5||1-61||8-102||-62||0
Senior B - Playoffs
Preliminary Quarter-finals
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final
St. Thomas':1 Patrick Skehill (c)2 Fintan Burke4 Cathal Burke10 Eanna Burke12 James Regan5 Shane Cooney7 Donal Cooney13 Bernard Burke8 David Burke11 Conor Cooney6 Darragh Burke9 David Sherry14 Brendan Farrell3 Sean Skehill15 Kenneth BurkeSubstitutes Used:19 Gerald Kelly for Darragh Burke (52)6 Darragh Burke for David Sherry (54)17 Anthony Kelly for Sean Skehill (57)22 Colin Fallon for Kenneth Burke (64)Manager: John BurkeGort:1 Gavin Lally2 Tadhg Linnane3 Mark McMahon4 Michael Cummins5 Pakie Lally22 Greg Lally6 Aidan Harte7 Sylvie Óg Linanne (c)9 Jack Grealish10 Paul Killilea11 Albert Mullins12 Aiden Helebert13 Richie Cummins14 Michael Mullins8 Jason GrealishSubstitutes Used:24 Gerard O’Donoghue for Paul Killilea (33-35)24 Gerard O’Donoghue for M Mullins (35)15 Wayne Walsh for Greg Lally (48)Manager: Michael Finn
Relegation
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