Sport

27 January 2025

Cm’on, join one of UCT’s sporting codes and kill three birds with one stone – stay fit and healthy, meet new friends, and have tons of fun while you’re at it.

UCT has about 40 sport clubs, with a total membership of around 9 000 students and staff. This offers you a great opportunity to continue participating in the sport you loved at school or to experience something completely new.

From the traditional sporting codes such as rugby, hockey, soccer and rowing to the non-traditional codes such as Ultimate Frisbee, underwater, parasport and eSport, we have it all. Get involved with UCT parasports – even if you do not have a disability; and learn more about the UCT cheerleading team.

Remember, sport and recreation provide for all levels of competition,from purely social programmes through to high-performance sport.

Sport facilities

Our facilities are spread across our campuses, from lower campus all the way up to upper campus and as far afield as a mountain hut near Ceres.

Sport facilities include:

astro turf hockey and football pitches
indoor sports complex
tennis and netball courts
rugby and cricket fields and facilities.

UCT sport also has direct access to:

L26 keel boat and sailing dinghies
ocean-going dive boats.

UCT’s rowing club is one of the best-equipped university clubs in the country with an ergo room, as well as a boat shed at Zeekoevlei.

We also have a fitness centre, which consists of a gym that is comprised of a weights training area, CrossFit and high-intensity interval training (HIIT), cardio and circuit training areas, and a studio for aerobics classes.

This centre also has access to a swimming pool, as well as a sand volleyball court.

Join the club

All sport clubs have been loaded onto the Virtual Student Organisations Exhibit and that’s where you’ll find all the information you need.

If you want to join, just follow the step-by-step guide for signing up for clubs.

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