Membership
Join us by filling in the 2025-26 membership form here and we'll be in contact with all the relevant information. We offer two membership options as below. Please contact us if you have any questions!
Annual
This membership option is a performance membership for the entire year. It allows access to closed training sessions and consideration for high performance teams. Tournament kit and transportation included.
Term Social
This membership option grants access to open training sessions and socials each term. You may have select opportunities to play in development leagues. It is available on a term-by-term basis.
Competitions at a Glance
Half Blue Honours
The Blue is the highest honour granted to individual sportspeople at the University of Oxford and is a highly sought-after achievement for Oxford student athletes. The awarding of a Blue is dependent on the status of each sport and the specific criteria associated with competing at the highest level within that sport.
2025 Half Blues
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Ava McCarthy Kerrigan
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Samuel Thompson
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Lucia Vilchez
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Max Hadoke
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Somto Ibeme
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Zhiyang 'Joseph' Zhong
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Maisie Pollard
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Jack Grantham
Club History
2003 - 2004
England wins the 2003 Rugby World Cup and provides a development grant to Oxford University Rugby Football Club (OURFC). OURFC uses the grant to create a Touch Cuppers.
2015 - 2018
OURFC Touch forms as a sub-committee under OURFC in 2015 and hosts the first Varsity matches against Cambridge in 2018. The sub-committee was founded by Miles Partridge and Nadine Paul.
2022
Touch Rugby joins the British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) calendar for the 2022-2023 season.
9 June 2023
The Vice-Chancellor and Proctors authorise the Oxford University Touch Rugby Club (OUTRC) as a separate and independent club from OURFC. The new club was co-founded by Aryemis Brown, Augustine McMahon, and Ava McCarthy Kerrigan.
16 October 2023
Oxford University elevates Touch Rugby to Half Blue status.
25 November 2023
24 February 2024
Oxford University debuts a second team, the Orcas, into an official BUCS fixture.
Oxford University wins inaugural Varsity Match (both first and second teams) recognised by the Joint Blues Committee and paints first-ever Touch pitch at Worcester College.
23 March 2024
Oxford University wins England Touch Club Spirit Award.
1 June 2024
15 June 2024
The Club awards its inaugural class of Half Blues.
Touch Rugby named 2024 Oxford University Club of the Year in addition to short-listing for the Diversity and Inclusion Award, Team of the Year, Student Coach of the Year, and Sporting Moment of the Year.
1 March 2025
22 March 2025
Oxford University wins the Varsity Match (both first and second teams) held at Girton College, Cambridge.
The Club achieves a new milestone with its first and second teams competing in every BUCS competition fixture.
16 June 2025
The Club's coach, Samuel Thompson, is awarded 2025 Student Coach of the Year at the Oxford University Sport Awards.
