Team Edge Hill is the hub for all sports teams and individuals at Edge Hill University, who are competing in British Universities and Colleges Sport. This is the place to be if you want to follow the progress of our teams in their current BUCS season. This will include updates on sports fixtures, results, photos, and match reports.
Team Edge Hill membership
All students that are training with or representing Edge Hill University either individually or as part of a team must hold a valid Team Edge Hill membership.
These membership fees contribute towards insurance, facility hire, officials, entry fees and affiliations, transport, and playing kit among other expenses. This membership includes access to Team Edge Hill clubs, Campus Sport, swimming and track usage and will expire on 31 August each year.
To be able to access the activities of any of our student led sports clubs you must pay your Team Edge Hill membership fee at the Sports Centre reception or online.
Memberships provide the following benefits:
- Elite Personal Accident insurance cover‌ (policy document UK Elite Policy 2025 – 158)
- Edge Hill Sport members can get access to free musculoskeletal assessments, treatment and sports massage at The Sports Therapy Clinic.
- Financial support at representative level
- Subsidised support to coaching and officials courses
By signing up to a Team Edge Hill sports club or taking out Team Edge Hill membership, you agree to abide by the Team Edge Hill sports clubs code of conduct.
Sports teams
The following teams are part of Team Edge Hill. Some teams can be contacted directly via their social media pages. If there is not a link, please contact [email protected] for more information.
- Athletics
- American football (Vikings)
- Badminton
- Basketball men
- Basketball women (Ducks)
- Cheerleading
- Cricket
- Equestrian
- Football men
- Football women
- Futsal
- Hockey men
- Hockey women
- Netball
- Pool and snooker
- Rugby league men (Tigers)
- Rugby union men (Beavers)
- Rugby union women
- Swimming
- Tennis
- Trampoline
- Volleyball
For information on recreational sport sessions see our Campus Sport page
Timetable
Committee members
Team sheets must be completed prior to the match starting (for both Home and Away fixtures).
It is your responsibility to check all players attending the match (and listed on the team sheet) against their photo and name on their ID card (University ID).
If BUCS request your team sheet, and Edge Hill fails to provide one, a walkover will be awarded against your team.
Please complete, upload and verify team sheets online at BUCS Play. If you experience a connectivity issue with BUCS Play, you should immediately record a paper version (which can be accessed below). This should be signed by both captains and emailed directly to [email protected] prior to the start of your fixture.
If you feel an opposition broke any of the BUCS Regulations during a fixture, you will need to complete a Playing Under Protest form. This form needs to be signed by both captains before the fixture starts.
Please email the playing under protest form to [email protected] or deliver it to the office before 12pm the following day.
Key Points
If further issues arise that were not apparent at the time the Playing Under Protest Form was signed, either a new form must be completed, or the additional issues should be added to the existing form. The time at which these issues are raised must be recorded alongside the captains’ initials.
The opposing captain must countersign this form to acknowledge that the protesting team has raised a grievance and that the match will be played under protest. They cannot refuse to provide their signature.
The opposing captain may use the space provided on the form to record their perspective regarding the grievance.
The end of each statement provided by both captains must be initialled to confirm its completion.
Completing a Playing Under Protest form provides an institution with the right to appeal following the conclusion of the fixture. Submission of the form indicates that the conditions under which the match was played were not accepted. However, submission of the form does not guarantee the outcome of any subsequent appeal.
The sports coaching fund is available for Team Edge Hill Clubs to apply for development of student coaches or the provision of external coaches.
Sports coaching fund criteria 2024/25
General criteria:
- General overview
- The purpose of the Sports Coaching Fund (SCF) is to provide opportunities for Team Edge Hill Sports clubs to apply for funding for an external club coach or to develop a student coach through coach education/ qualifications.
- All funding agreements will be for the approved academic year only. All Sports clubs must reapply annually.
- Commitment
- Applications should be made by the whole sport club rather than individual club members or teams. Applications received from individual students or individual teams will not be accepted.
- All clubs applying must be registered as Team Edge Hill Clubs.
- Clubs applying to access the funding must ensure that all members have purchased Team Edge Hill Membership.
- All teams within a club must show a commitment to BUCS competitions, including league and cup matches or individual BUCS competitions. (Previous and current seasons will be taken into account)
- The expectation is that there will be no voluntary walkovers for any team within the club.
- Where the application is for an external paid coach, the club must have identified a potential external coach with a minimum level 2 qualification prior to application.
- Current Edge Hill students cannot be appointed as a paid coach though the Student Coach Fund.
- For applications for a student to obtain a coaching qualification, Clubs must have identified a student with relevant experience within the sport and who has a willingness to undertake the coaching qualification with the intention to coach the team for the remainder of the season and the following season. The student must fund any additional costs above the agreed funding level to obtain the qualification.
- Clubs need to identify possible courses which the student coach can attend and submit full details with the application.
- Full costs of the course must be submitted at time of application.
- Clubs should provide additional information, to evidence previous attempts to improve and develop their clubs. (National Governing Body contacts, links with local clubs and more).
- Allocation
- The Student Coach Fund can allocate up to a maximum of £20.00 per hour for external coaches depending on qualification and experience.*
- External coaches below level two cannot be funded through the Sports Coaching fund.
- Coach education funding will only be made available to students with a full year of study after completion of qualification.
- A maximum of one coaching course can be claimed per club per year.
- The maximum funding per student to attend a coaching education course are set at:
Level 1 = £150 Level 2 = £350
4. Prioritisation
- Where several clubs have applied for funding in the same academic year and where funding is limited, each application will be judged on its own merits. Should the applications be judged to have equal merits based on the above criteria priority will be given to
- Clubs which have not received coaching support previously from the student coach fund.
- Clubs who can evidence development and growth.
- Clubs which can evidence demand for example, where there is more than one team.
*Edge Hill Sport reserves the right to amend the hourly rate of pay at any time.
To request additional sports facility time, whether for regular sessions or a one-off booking, please complete the online form via the link below:
Please note, additional facility bookings can be requested by clubs for a range of activities, including friendly fixtures, charity events, additional training or practice sessions, and other club-related activities.
Availability for additional training space is limited; however, all requests will be considered on an individual basis.
Every year Edge Hill University and University of Lancashire sports teams compete in an annual varsity competition. Varsity is one eagerly awaited massive day of sport with fixtures including football, hockey, rugby, basketball, and netball. Each fixture contributes towards the varsity total with the university with the most points taking home the trophy. The varsity competition first took place in 2013 with the two institutions taking it in turns to host, with students competing in more than 17 different sports and 23 fixtures in one day.
