EVENTS
Events and fixtures.
League match days, Cuppers, socials and the Varsity Match. New dates are added here as soon as they are confirmed.
WHAT’S ON
Coming up.
7–8
OCT 2026
CLUB · EXAMINATION SCHOOLS, HIGH STREET
Freshers’ Fair
Starting at Oxford? Come and meet the club at the Oxford SU Freshers’ Fair in Noughth Week. We can tell you about taster sessions, training and trials, and add you to the mailing list. If you cannot make it, register your interest online instead.
Hilary
2027
VARSITY · OXFORD OR CAMBRIDGE · AFTERNOON
The Varsity Match v Cambridge
The biggest fixture of the year: Oxford’s men’s and women’s pairs against Cambridge, in the seventh or eighth week of Hilary Term. Supporters are welcome, and the date will be announced here and to the mailing list as soon as it is agreed.
EVERY WEEK IN TERM
The weekly programme.
Session times change from week to week, so members receive the schedule by email in advance.
WEEKDAYS
Club training
Social sessions, open courts and coaching for members of every level at our home courts. Beginners are welcome at every session, and members borrow rackets free of charge through the club’s partnership with the venue.
Smash Padel Oxford, North Hinksey Village, OX2 0NA
SATURDAYS
League match days
Our pairs take on other universities in the South East division of the National University Padel League. Pairs are selected from trials and training, and receive full details before each match day.
Padel Hub Reading, Kenavon Drive, RG1 3DH
SUNDAYS
College Cuppers
The inter-college competition run by the club. Enter a pair from your college, play for college pride and meet players from across the University.
Smash Padel Oxford, North Hinksey Village, OX2 0NA
2026–27
How the year runs.
The club’s year follows the three Oxford terms, from the Freshers’ Fair in October to the Annual General Meeting in June.
MICHAELMAS TERM
Full term: 11 October – 5 December 2026
New players and the league
The year opens with the Freshers’ Fair in Noughth Week, followed by taster sessions and trials for new players. Weekly training begins, the league season gets under way, and Cuppers runs on Sundays through the term.
HILARY TERM
Full term: 17 January – 13 March 2027
Varsity
Training, league matches and Cuppers continue, and the term builds towards the Varsity Match against Cambridge in seventh or eighth week.
TRINITY TERM
Full term: 25 April – 19 June 2027
The AGM
Training continues through the summer term. The Annual General Meeting reviews the year, receives the accounts and elects the committee for 2027–28, ready for Michaelmas.
KEY DETAILS
OXFORD V CAMBRIDGE
The Varsity Match.
For every Oxford club, one fixture matters more than the rest. For padel, it is the afternoon we play Cambridge.
The Varsity Match is played every year in the seventh or eighth week of Hilary Term, with the venue alternating between the two universities; when Oxford hosts, it is played at our home courts, Smash Padel in North Hinksey. Oxford’s men’s and women’s teams both take part, and the day is the high point of the club’s season.
Supporters, friends and families are welcome. If you would like to be told the date as soon as it is fixed, join the mailing list.
WHEN
Hilary Term 2027, seventh or eighth week (28 February – 13 March 2027). Date to be confirmed.
TIME
Afternoon
WHERE
Oxford or Cambridge; the venue alternates
WHO
Oxford’s men’s and women’s teams against Cambridge
Varsity results are kept in the club archive by the Secretary and will be published here after each match.
ARCHIVE
Results and past events.
Past fixtures and events, most recent first. Results are added after each match.
15 APRIL 2026
National Finals qualification
After four South East division fixtures in 2025–26, two of Oxford’s men’s pairs qualified for the National University Padel League National Finals at Rocket Padel Bristol: one as one of the twelve best men’s Division 1 pairs in the country, the other into the Men’s Division 2 knockout rounds.
27 NOVEMBER 2025
NUPL South East: Matchday 2
The club’s second league match day of the season, against the other universities in the South East division.
25 OCTOBER 2025
NUPL South East: Matchday 1
The club’s first league match day, and its dark blue debut: four men’s pairs and two women’s pairs against Cambridge, the London School of Economics, Reading and Oxford Brookes. Oxford’s Division 1 pairs won six of their eight matches.
DIVISION
OXFORD
OPPONENT
RESULT
Men’s Division 1
Pair 1
Cambridge, pair 2
Won
Men’s Division 1
Pair 1
Oxford Brookes, pair 2
Won
Men’s Division 1
Pair 2
Oxford Brookes, pair 2
Won
Men’s Division 1
Pair 2
LSE, pair 1
Lost
Women’s Division 1
Pair 1
Oxford Brookes, pair 2
Won
Women’s Division 1
Pair 1
Cambridge, pair 2
Won
Women’s Division 1
Pair 2
Oxford Brookes, pair 2
Won
Women’s Division 1
Pair 2
LSE, pair 1
Lost
Men’s Division 2
Pairs 1 and 2
Division 2 pairs
Close defeats; walkover v Cambridge
1 JUNE 2025
The club’s first tournament
The club’s first tournament, held on a Sunday afternoon at Smash Padel Oxford a few days after the club announced its partnership with the venue.