It is the highest inter-county football competition for male players between the ages of 17 and 20 in the province of Munster.

The final, currently held in March, serves as the culmination of a series of games played during a three-week period, and the results determine which team receives the Corn na Cásca.

The winners of the Munster final, like their counterparts in the other three provinces, advance to the semi-final stage of the All-Ireland series of games.

The inaugural Munster Championship featured Clare, Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary and Waterford.

Cork became the pre-eminent team of the eighties by winning seven titles in ten years, including a record-equalling four-in-a-row.

Kerry returned as the foremost team of the nineties, claiming all but one of the available titles in a ten-year spell and ending the decade by setting the all-time record of five successive championship victories.

The Millennium year saw Limerick break the duopoly by claiming their first and only title, with Waterford and Tipperary also adding their names to the roll of honour.