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Student Sport Ireland (SSI) is pleased to announce that the application process for the 2025-26 Women’s Student Coaching Academy is now open for new entrants. Heading into its 5th year, the aim of the academy is to provide female student coaches with the support system that will enable them to develop and reach their coaching […]
Student Sport Ireland (SSI), the governing body for Higher Education (HE) sport, has published its new 4-year strategic plan that will guide its work, growth, and development to 2028. The Strategic Plan (2025 – 2028) was developed following an extensive consultation process with HE sports staff, student leaders including the SSI Student Ambassadors, and key […]
Everyone at Student Sport Ireland is deeply saddened to hear of the passing of our great friend and colleague Gerry Anderson. Gerry passed away peacefully on Monday evening surrounded by his family following illness. A long serving GAA Officer at IT Tallaght and TU Dublin Gerry was a hugely respected, much loved, and active member […]
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, […]
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 noel@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 SSI 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 portal above.
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.
