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Athletics Club

We strive for success in competition and work on building strong family values

If you are looking to enrich your university experience to the fullest then look no further than the University of Portsmouth Athletics Club. We are a club that accepts people of all experience, background and confidence. As much as we strive for success in competition we also work on maintaining and building the strong family values for our new and returning members. This consists of a healthy balance of training, competition and socials.

Give Me Sport

Try out our 32 Team UOP Sports Clubs at Give Me Sport, Thursday 17 - Sunday 20 September. You can try out both casual taster sessions and trials for our competitive teams, with no previous experience needed and no commitment to sign up straight away.

Which of our 32 sports clubs will you try first?

Through your Give Me Sport ticket you can also try out Ravelin Sport Centre's swimming pool and fitness classes.

Get your Give Me Sport ticket here

 

Club memberships for 2026/27 are available from Saturday 1 August.

Please note, for most Compete memberships, you will need to be selected for a team via the club's trials during our Give Me Sport event.

Club memberships 2026/27

  • Compete: £125

Competitive Athletics Club Membership covers training, coaching competition entry & equipment. Affiliation not included

  • Development: £100

Development Athletics Club Membership covers training, local competition entry & equipment. BUCS competition not included. 

  • Play: £70

Play Athletics Club Membership covers weekly social athletics sessions & equipment.

Athletics Compete   Athletics Development Athletics Play

Training sessions

  • Group runs Monday 6.30pm-7.30pm around Portsmouth
  • Tuesday 7.00pm-8.00pm: Southsea Common distance training
  • Thursday 6.00pm-8.00pm: HMS Temeraire sprint and distance training
  • We also take part in Southsea parkrun every Saturday morning at 9am
  • Sunday 10.00am-11.00am: Distance session

Competitions

Saturdays and Sundays - Competitions will take place on selected weekend days at various locations.

Give Me Sport Tasters 2025

Play Memberships

Lots of our Team UOP Sports Clubs offer Play Memberships, a more casual way to play without committing to a year membership. Most Play Memberships are a one-off payment of £70 for the year (with some exceptions).

The sports included are:

*We have social pay-as-you-go sessions for Table Tennis, separate to memberships.