| Year: | 2016 |
| Dates: | 18 June – 11 September 2016 |
| Teams: | 11 |
| Matches: | 30 |
| Team: | Kilkenny |
| Titles: | 13th |
| Manager: | Ann Downey |
| Team2: | Cork |
| Captain2: | Ashling Thompson |
| Manager2: | Paudie Murray |
| Previous: | 2015 |
| Next: | 2017 |
The 2016 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship – known as the Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship for sponsorship reasons – is the premier inter-county senior camogie competition.
The winners receive the O'Duffy Cup.
The championship began on 18 June.[1] [2]
Eleven county teams compete in the Senior Championship (tier 1). Sixteen lower-ranked county teams plus the second teams of tier 1 counties compete in the Intermediate (tier 2) and Junior (tier 3) Championships.
Group Stage
The eleven teams are drawn into one group of six and one group of five. All the teams play each other once. Three points are awarded for a win and one for a draw.
Knock-out stage
| Advance to semi-finals | ||
| Advance to quarter-finals |
| width=165 | Team | width=20 | Pld | width=20 | W | width=20 | D | width=20 | L | width=50 | F | width=50 | A | width=20 | Diff | width=20 | Pts |
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| Cork | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 114 | 51 | +63 | 12 | |||||||||
| Wexford | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 102 | 70 | +32 | 12 | |||||||||
| Offaly | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 89 | 73 | +16 | 12 | |||||||||
| Limerick | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 80 | 91 | –11 | 6 | |||||||||
| Waterford | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 58 | 96 | –38 | 3 | |||||||||
| Clare | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 51 | 113 | –62 | 0 |
Tie-Breaker
If only two teams are level on league points -
If three or more teams are level on league points, score difference is used to rank the teams.
| width=165 | Team | width=20 | Pld | width=20 | W | width=20 | D | width=20 | L | width=50 | F | width=50 | A | width=20 | Diff | width=20 | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Galway | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 75 | 34 | +41 | 12 | |||||||||
| Kilkenny | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 91 | 45 | +46 | 9 | |||||||||
| Tipperary | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 66 | 63 | +3 | 4 | |||||||||
| Dublin | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 63 | 62 | +1 | 4 | |||||||||
| Derry | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 25 | 116 | –91 | 0 |
The second team in group 1 plays the third team in group 2 and the third team in group 1 plays the second team in group 2. All matches are knock-out.
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The winners of groups 1 and 2 play the winners of the two quarter-finals. All matches are knock-out
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See main article: 2016 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship Final.