Recreational programmes run all year for students of any level. You need a Football and Futsal Club Membership to play (see Join the Club) — £47 total, no BUCS fee.
Our biggest single programme, department against department, running every Wednesday across the whole academic year.
Format for 2026/27: two divisions, Premiership and Championship. Every team plays every other team in its division once. At the end of the league phase, the bottom 2 in the Premiership swap with the top 2 in the Championship, and there is a promotion play-off game. The IDFC Cup then runs as a separate knockout, starting only once the league has finished, drawn at random from the top 6 in the Premiership and the top 2 in the Championship.
Departments across the university enter teams, from Biosciences and Engineering to Mathematics and Economics, and the men's Development squad also plays in IDFC. Ten teams in each division. Fixtures and results for 2026/27 are published on BUCS Play.
To join an IDFC team, contact your department's captain in the Team captains table at the bottom of this page. All players welcome. Not sure which team is yours, or your department isn't listed? Email su-associationfootball@bath.ac.uk.
Represent your accommodation block. Eight teams, matches on Saturdays, training on Fridays, culminating in playoff finals. Teams were picked at trials on the 3G strip in Freshers' Week, but you can join at any point in the year by getting in touch with your captain. Coordinator: Magnus Daum
Captains are listed in the Team captains table at the bottom of this page. Not sure which team you're in? Message your captain or email su-associationfootball@bath.ac.uk.
Regular 6-aside matches take place throughout the week - please speak to the coodinator (Ben Stobbs)
Wanderers (East Westwood)
Quantock Cotswold, Derhill, Wolfson, Brendon Court
Wolves (Norwood House, Woodland Court)
Norwood, Woodland Court
Quails (The Quads)
Quads C,D,E
Slickers (City, off-campus)
John Wood, Carpenter House, Quads A&B
Everyone in these programmes is a full member of the University of Bath Football and Futsal Club, with the same access to socials, welfare support and events as the BUCS squads.
Futsal leagues are also available with our recreational offer. These futsal leagues run on Mondays and Thursdays. If you would like to enter a team, please see the Intramural Futsal League group or contact our Men's Representative (Harry Moore).
Our recreational teams were taken to the next level by TeamBEST (our Economics IDFC team) in 2019, who won the University section of the FA People's Cup, winning the national finals at St. George's Park.
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