The 2016 Munster Senior Football Championship was the 2016 installment of the annual Munster Senior Football Championship held under the auspices of Munster GAA. It is one of the four provincial competitions of the 2016 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship. Kerry entered the competition as defending Munster champions and retained their title after a 3-17 to 2-10 victory over Tipperary^[1][2]

Last year's Munster finalists receive a bye into this year's Munster semi-finals. The four remaining teams play two quarter-final matches with the winners completing the semi-final line-up. All matches are knock-out.

Teams

The Munster championship is contested by all six counties in the Irish province of Munster.

Team	Colours	Sponsor	Manager	Captain	Most recent success
					All-Ireland	Provincial
Clare	Saffron and Blue	Pat O'Donnell	Colm Collins	Gary Brennan		1992
Cork	Red and white	Chill Insurance	Peadar Healy	Paul Kerrigan	2010	2012
Kerry	Green and gold	Kerry Group	Éamonn Fitzmaurice	Bryan Sheehan	2014	2015
Limerick	Green and white	Sporting Limerick	John Brudair	Iain Corbett	1896	1896
Tipperary	Blue and gold	Intersport	Liam Kearns	Peter Acheson	1920	1935
Waterford	White and blue	3 Mobile	Tom McGlinchey	Tommy Prendergast		1898

Bracket

	Quarter-finals					Semi-finals					Final
	Clare		0-16
	Limerick		0-13			Clare		0-17
						Kerry		2-23
											Kerry		3-17
											Tipperary		2-10
						Cork		2-16
	Waterford		1-07			Tipperary		3-15
	Tipperary		1-15

Fixtures

Quarter-finals

29 May 2016

3:30 p.m.

First round

Limerick	0-13 - 0-16	Clare
I. Ryan (0-8, 7 frees); D. Neville (0-2, 1 free); C. Sheehan, S. Buckley, S. Cahill (0-1 each).	Report	D. Tubridy (2 frees), J. Malone (0-3 each); K. Sexton, P. Collins, E. Cleary (0-2 each); C. O’Connor, S. Collins, S. McGrath, G. Brennan (0-1 each).

Gaelic Grounds, Limerick

Attendance: 3,343

Referee: P Neilan (Roscommon)

29 May 2016

3:30 p.m.

First round

Waterford	1-7 - 1-15	Tipperary
P Whyte (1-5, 0-3 frees, 0-1 ’45); G Crotty, T Prendergast (0-1 each).	Report	M Quinlivan (0-4); G Hannigan, P Acheson (0-3 each); M O’Gorman (1-0 OG); K O’Halloran (0-2, 0-2 frees); M Dunne, C O’Shaughnessy, B Fox (0-1 each).

Fraher Field, Dungarvan

Attendance: 1,753

Referee: D Gough (Meath)

Semi-finals

12 June 2016

Semi Final

Kerry	2-23 - 0-17	Clare
S O'Brien 1-5, C Cooper 1-3 (1f), P Geaney 0-5 (1f), BJ Keane, D O'Sullivan, B Sheehan (2f) 0-2 each, P Murphy, K Young, D Moran, A Maher 0-1 each	Report	D Tubridy 0-7 (4f, 2 45), E Cleary (1 sl, 1f) P Lillis 0-3 each, G Brennan 0-2, P Collins, C O'Connor 0-1.

Fitzgerald Stadium, Killarney

Attendance: 11,358

Referee: F Kelly (Longford)

12 June 2016

Semi Final

Cork	2-16 - 3-15	Tipperary
M Collins 2-1, D O'Connor (3fs), P Kerrigan (1f) 0-3 each, C Dorman, C O'Neill (2fs), D Goulding (1f) 0-2 each, B Hurley, J O'Rourke, P Kelleher 0-1 each.	Report	M Quinlivan 1-3 (0-1f), K O'Halloran 0-7 (3fs, 2 45s), B Fox 1-1, C Sweeney 1-0, P Acheson 0-2, C McDonald, B Maher 0-1 each.

Semple Stadium, Thurles

Attendance: 2,734

Referee: P Neilan (Roscommon)

• Tipperary's last victory over Cork in the Munster Senior Football Championship was in 1944.^[3]

Munster Final

3 July 2016

Final

Kerry	3-17 - 2-10	Tipperary
Paul Geaney 2-3, Paul Murphy 1-1, Bryan Sheehan (0-4f), James O’Donoghue (0-3f) 0-4 each, Barry John Keane, Mikey Geaney, Killian Young, Darran O’Sullivan, Stephen O’Brien 0-1 each	Report	Kevin O’Halloran 0-6 (0-4f, 0-1 ’45), Jimmy Feehan, Robbie Kiely 1-0 each, Michael Quinlivan 0-3 (0-2f), Alan Moloney 0-1

Fitzgerald Stadium, Killarney

Attendance: 21,512