Munster GAA gate receipts surpass €9.5m mark for 2025

MUNSTER GATE RECEIPTS: Munster GAA’s gate receipts surpassed the €9.5 million mark in 2025, bringing their total revenue to €12.667m. Picture: Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile

Munster GAA’s gate receipts surpassed the €9.5 million mark in 2025, bringing their total revenue to €12.667m.

The province’s 11-game senior hurling championship comprised €8.381m or 88% of its gate receipts for the year.

To put that enormous figure in context, the GAA (Central Council) recorded gate receipts of €12.355m for non-provincial hurling championship games in 2024 and €10.949m the year previously.

Munster SHC gate receipts were up €1.492m on last year as a result of increased attendances (329,299 took in the competition’s 11 games, up 4% from 2024) and a second ticket rise (€5 on adult stand and terrace tickets) in as many years.

In his annual report, Munster GAA chief executive Kieran Leddy also revealed 2.7 million people watched the seven SHC games televised live by RTÉ.

On the flipside, gate receipts for the five-game Munster senior football championship declined by almost €50k to €477,045 as attendances fell by 7%.

While the province’s total revenue was down from €13.048m in 2024, overall gate receipts were up by almost €1.5m despite there being no pre-season competition last year. Both minor and U20 sets of championships showed increases.

Match-day costs and field rental (hosting counties get 15% of the gross gate) jumped from €3.063m to €3.656m in no small part to third party private security companies required for crowd control, checking tickets and bottles, a bill which came to €742,114.

Ticketmaster also received €62,191 more in ticket sales commission. In total, Munster GAA paid out €555,974 in ticketing costs last year.

Munster GAA’s surplus before funding activities was €4.804m when it was €3.939m in 2024. Club development grants issued across the six counties came to €1.254m while €2.025m was distributed to three from a strategic facility investment fund with Clare receiving €1.2m.

Munster also paid out a €140,000 grant between the likes of Cork, Kerry and Tipperary for reaching the All-Ireland finals. That formed part of a new team holiday funding mechanism implemented by Croke Park in 2024.