World University Games 2025
Student Sport Ireland is delighted to announce that applications are now open for the Student Ambassador Programme 2026/2027, offering students across Ireland an exciting opportunity to develop valuable skills, gain leadership experience, and help promote student sport and physical activity on campus. The Student Ambassador Programme is designed to empower passionate and motivated students who […]
University College Dublin 1 and Dublin City University 2 collected the first ever Student Sport Ireland / Tennis Ireland Team league titles in Lansdowne Tennis Club on Tuesday April 14th last, winning Division 1 and Division 2 respectively. The new competition which came from the appetite from students for more collegiate tennis, saw teams play […]
Student Sport Ireland (SSI) is delighted to announce that applications are now open for the 2026–2027 Women’s Student Coaching Academy (WSCA). Now entering its sixth year, the academy is dedicated to supporting female student coaches in developing their skills and reaching their full coaching potential. It also aims to increase both the number and visibility […]
Everyone at Student Sport Ireland is deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Legendary Irish Olympian Ronnie Delany at the age of 91. Ronnie Delany at the age of 21, captured Ireland’s first ever Gold Medal at the Olympics Games, by winning the 1500m in Melbourne, Australia in 1956. Six years later in 1961, […]
Student Sport Ireland (SSI) is the national governing body for higher education sport on the island of Ireland. We have 22 affiliated HEIs representing over 240,000 full time students and over 800 HEI sports clubs.
SSI is recognised by both Sport Ireland and Sport Northern Ireland and is affiliated to the Federation of Irish Sport, the European University Sports Association (EUSA), and the International University Sports Federation (FISU).
Our vision is to “Create lasting sporting experiences, together” with a mission or purpose to Enhance and achieve consistent higher education sporting competition“; Promote participation and active wellbeing; Lead the development of higher education sport in Ireland.
Registering your team for our competitions is very straight forward. Simply go to the SSI Competitions web page above, select your sport, download and complete the entry form for signing by your Sports Office. Once signed submit via the email address provided.
For the new academic year we’ll be coordinating league and cup competitions across 9 sports with approximately 200 student teams and over 2,000 students participating.
Via the Competitions Calendar above. All competitions are listed in chronological order.
If your competition is not listed it is probably because the details have yet to be finalised or have yet to be logged by the host HEI with SSI. In this event email us at [email protected] and we’ll try and assist you as best we can.
While general queries can be submitted to SSI (via [email protected]) performance students hoping to compete at a FISU WUCs are encouraged to first contact their sport’s NGB Performance Director.
As FISU’s national university sports federation, SSI registers all Irish student athletes for the WUCs. We expect that Irish performance student athletes will compete in 5 or more sports at the WUCs.
Contact your Sports Office to ask how you can be nominated to represent your HEI as an SSI Student Ambassador.
The SSI Student Ambassadors are a network of student sports leaders from across SSI’s 22 affiliated HEI and is an opportunity for the student body (via their student representative) to input and influence SSI and its work. The network also offers the student sports leaders the opportunity to meet and get to know, learn from, and share information with their peers from across the island.
The Women’s Student Coaching Academy (WSCA) is a collaborative programme between Student Sport Ireland, Sport Ireland, HEIs and national governing bodies of sport.
The aim of the programme is to build a female student coach support system to enable the student to develop and reach their coaching potential, to increase the number and visibility of female coaches in student sport, and create female role models to inspire and encourage other female students to become a coach.
