The 2025 TUS Clare Premier Intermediate Hurling Championship was the first staging of the competition, competing for the Paddy Browne Cup, which was previously awarded to the Intermediate champions in Clare. It is the 2nd tier of hurling in the county.

The draws for the 2025 Clare club championship group stages took place on 20 May 2025. The championship was contested by 10 teams. The group stage was in a round-robin format, with each team playing each team in their group once.

The quarter-finals were played between the 2nd placed team in Group 1 vs 3rd placed team in Group 2, and vice versa. The group winners went straight through to the semi finals, for an open draw. The relegation final were played between the last-place teams of each group, with the losers of this to determine the relegated team.

The draws for the semi final took place on 21 September 2025.

The final was scheduled for 19 October 2025

Premier Intermediate Championship Fixtures

Group stage 2 groups of 5 Each team plays all the other teams in their group once. Two points are awarded for a win and one for a draw. In cases where two or more teams are on equal points, only the matches between the relevant teams are used to calculate the score difference when determining placement in the group. The top progresses straight to the semi finals. 2nd and 3rd place progress to the quarter finals The bottom-placed team from each group contest the Relegation Playoffs

Group 1

TeamsPldWDLFADiffPtsO'Callaghans Mills431010980+297Tubber43019266+266Tulla41218082-24Parteen-Meelick41037591-162Killanena401371108-371

Group 2

TeamPldWDLFADiffPts Whitegate43018983+66 Ruan42118582+35 Clarecastle42028979+104 Sixmilebridge41128592-73 Bodyke41038496-122

Quarter-finals Played by the 2nd placed team vs 3rd placed team in each group

Semi-finals

County Final

Relegation Playoffs Played by the bottom placed teams from Groups 1 and 2 The loser of the relegation final is relegated to the Intermediate Championship for the 2026 season

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