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For the 2025/26 season, we have the following:

Competitive Teams

• Archery
• Athletics
• Basketball - Men's
• Cheerleading
• Football - Men's and Women's
• Futsal - Men's and Women's
• Netball
• Swimming

We also enter students into individual BUCS competition. So if you want to represent the University in your chosen sport, get in touch.

Each team’s training time and location can be found in their area of the website, teams train on the Bedford campus and also use external facilities to the campus.

If there currently isn’t something for you, we can look to help you either start up a team or enter into an individual event. The first step is to make sure that the sport/event is on the list of BUCS sports. This list can be found at BUCS Sports

Once you know this, then get in touch with the competitive sport staff at competitivesport@beds.ac.uk and we can help with the rest.

For the majority of team sports, fixtures are held on Wednesday afternoons and evenings, this is known a BUCS Wednesday. Historically, Futsal is held on weekends and this is also the case for competition sports such as Archery and Athletics.

Weekly fixtures will be held in league and cup format and these will be against other institutions in the East Midlands region. This includes Universities such as Loughborough, Nottingham, Nottingham Trent and De Montfort.

Competition events are hosted as a central venue with universities across the country attending. Some of these events even attract Olympic athletes.

BUCS (British Universities and Colleges Sport) is the organisation that governs university sports across the country. They work with NGBs and member institutions to put on of the biggest HE sports programmes in the world. Not all sports are included in the BUCS Programme and it’s this sporting list that the University of Bedfordshire uses to determine which sports we can and cannot run.

For more information visit BUCS

This is the platform that was introduced in the 2019/20 season to help with fixture and competition administration. It also gives teams a place to communicate with members, create calendar events and submit team sheets.

Excluding Cheerleading, every sport will use the BUCS Play system and all members must be on the platform to compete. Those who compete in a league throughout the season can sign up and find their team now. Those in competition-based teams will need to be on the platform when their event opens.

The BUCS Play App can be downloaded from the App Store on any smartphone.

Teams and individuals can start training as early as the last week in September with fixtures and events starting in October. Most fixtures and events will finish before the Easter break in April. There are some events that go ahead outside of these months, make sure you look on the BUCS website for these.

Towards the end of the year, all the committee positions will be free for any member to put their name forward. Each team should then hold an in-house election to decide who gets which position.

All members have an equal right to put their name forward for any position. The voting on these positions should always be fair and all members should be given time to vote.

The fee this year will be £80.

Visit our membership page for more information

No, once you have been selected for a team you will be contacted by a member of UoB sport with guidance on how to sign up free of charge.

Yes. Only current University of Bedfordshire students are eligible to train and compete for the teams.

Have a look at BUCS REG 4 Individual Eligibility for more information

University studies should always be put before any sporting events. Therefore, our advice would be to speak to your lecturer to see if there is anything that can be done to help you compete without it impacting your studies.

We would never recommend skipping studies to compete.

Find us on social media @bedsunisport

Alternatively, email our competitive sports team at competitivesport@beds.ac.uk