Student Sport Ireland congratulates the 8 award-winners of this year’s Sports Awards, which were presented as the organisations annual Networking Event in the Hodson Bay Hotel. South East Technological University Waterford student, Kate Hickey was named the SSI Sports Person of the Year 2025 in recognition of her extraordinary achievements in basketball at university, club, […]
Queen’s Sport and QUB Rugby Football Club in conjunction with Ulster Rugby wish to appoint a Director of Rugby to allow the club to successfully compete at the highest level of national competitions in Ireland. Initially at Senior and U20 in the Men’s game and in the medium term at Senior Women’s level. The appointment […]
Glorious weather and a stunning golf course in Bunclody County Wexford provided the backdrop to the return of team golf, as Maynooth University and South-East Technological University claimed the ‘A’ and ‘B’ categories respectively. Six teams from across the country headed for the foothill of Mount Leinster to tee it up in the beautiful Bunclody […]
University of Galway (Men) and Trinity College Dublin (Women) collected the top honours as the Student Sport Ireland / Volleyball Ireland Cup finals took place in University of Limerick recently. For the first time the 3rd level cup finals took place alongside the Volleyball Ireland Cup Finals weekend, and the action got underway on Friday […]
Student Sport Ireland (SSI) is the representative body for higher education sport on the island of Ireland. We have 30 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 lead and influence the potential of student sport in Ireland and our mission is to grow quality student sport competition, enhance wellbeing, and lead the sector.
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 2023/2024 academic year we’ll be coordinating league and cup competitions across 8 sports with over 130 student teams and 1,800 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 competitions@studentsport.ie and we’ll try and assist you as best we can.
While general queries can be submitted to SSI (via info@studentsport.ie) performance students hoping to compete at a FISU WUGs are encouraged to first contact their sport’s NGB Performance Director.
As FISU’s national university sports federation Student Sport Ireland registers all Irish student athletes for the WUGs. We expect that Irish performance student athletes will compete in 5 or more sports at the WUGs. For the latest information please click on the World University Games photo above.
Contact your Sports Office to ask how you can be nominated to represent your HEI on the SSI Student Commission.
The commission is a network of student sports leaders from across SSI’s 23 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 Commission is chaired by SSI Vice President, the student representative elected annually to SSI Board. The chair is supported by other student representatives on the board and/or SSI staff.
Yes. The deadline for applications for the 2024/2025 academic year was August 7th; the successful applicants will be announced in September. Check out the WSCA section above.
Now in its 4th year, 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.
