World University Games 2025
Irish doubles pair Conor Gannon and Ammer Elamin suffered a heart breaking championship tiebreaker defeat in the last 32 of the Men’s Doubles in the Tennis Competition in the World University Games in ETUF Tennislangen, Germany. After losing the opening set to number two seeds Alkaya and Duran from Turkey by six games to two, […]
Team Ireland had two victories on the clay courts of ETUF Tennislange in Essen this afternoon in the World University Games, as tennis duo Conor Gannon (University of Memphis) and Ammar Elamin (Technological University Dublin) won in straight sets. Gannon was a 6-3, 7-5 winner against Hi Lung Roger Nq from Hong Kong on court […]
Irish tennis stars Conor Gannon (University of Memphis) and Ammar Elamin (Technological University Dublin) have been given the honour of carrying the Irish flag at tonight’s Opening Ceremony of the 2025 FISU World University Games, taking place at the Schauinsland-Reisen-Arena in Duisburg, Germany. Team Ireland’s campaign officially gets underway tomorrow, with the Table Tennis team […]
Student Sport Ireland has named the Irish team to compete at the 32nd World University Games which take place from July 16th to 27th in the Rhine-Ruhr region of Germany More than 8,500 athletes and officials from over 100 countries are expected to travel to the largest metropolitan region in Germany to compete in 18 […]
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.
