Cardiff Met Sport

Our team was proud to join Cardiff Children's Services at Cardiff's Play Day event last week, celebrating the power of play and helping families discover new ways to stay active outdoors throughout the summer. The event provided a fantastic opportunity to launch and promote our new Explore the Outdoors resource, designed to give families simple, accessible ideas for enjoying outdoor spaces together. To support this, we prepared 150 activity bags containing free equipment, a p

Children across Wales are set to benefit from increased opportunities to learn essential swimming and water safety skills following the Welsh Government's announcement of a new national programme, Nofio Ysgol, which will begin rolling out from September 2026. The new initiative will provide primary school pupils with access to structured swimming and water safety lessons, helping more young people develop confidence in and around water while learning life-saving skills. The p

Jeremiah Azu finished fifth in the Commonwealth Games men's 100m final, Ellie Bowen produced a personal best in the F57 shot put, Dan Pitt advanced to the boxing quarter-finals and Cardiff Met's netball connections helped Wales secure their first victory of Glasgow 2026, during another busy two days of competition. Cardiff Met athletes, alumni and Archers players continued their Glasgow 2026 campaigns across athletics, para athletics, boxing, swimming, netball and 3x3 wheelch

The first World Cup I remember was Mexico '86. I’m sitting in my house in Swansea. Des Lynam is presenting. Golden sun scorched colours bursting through the TV, Gary Lineker’s arm in a plaster-cast, England’s players furiously surrounding the referee after Maradona's Hand of God. I remember playing football in Underhill Park in Mumbles that summer and trying to copy the goal Maradona scored against Belgium in the semi-final, the one where he is falling over as he shoots, scor

Cardiff Met Sport and Met Community are proud to support Drowning Prevention Week (13–20 June 2026), a national campaign dedicated to raising awareness of water safety and helping to prevent avoidable accidents. Delivered by the Royal Life Saving Society UK (RLSS UK), Drowning Prevention Week is the UK’s largest annual water safety campaign. It focuses on equipping children and young people with essential knowledge and skills ahead of the summer holidays, when time spent arou

Pipyn Actif began as a whole-system approach to support healthier futures for families across Cardiff — focusing not only on movement, but also on creating healthy eating habits in young families and improving access to nutritious food. At its heart, it is about shaping environments where families can thrive. One of the initiatives growing from this work is Move More Communities (Move More with Mum), which complements the wider Pipyn Actif programme by focusing specifically o

The FAW CPD training and football festival provided an opportunity to step beyond the classroom and experience football development in a real community setting. Through the partnership between the Football Association of Wales (FAW) and Cardiff Met, I was able to apply coaching knowledge in practice, work directly with children, and better understand the impact football can have on participation and confidence. The FAW CPD training focused on developing coaching and leadershi

Firstly, this experience started with theoretical and practical training to provide useful tools for myself and other students looking to gain an outstanding opportunity and experience with the FAW and Cardiff Met Sport. This opportunity provided us students to gain a new qualification within the FAW known as ‘The CicStart Framework’. Its purpose is to provide coaches and educators with relevant tools on inclusive football practice with 10 game approaches. The football festiv

Cardiff played host to an exciting and highly successful NFL Flag Football Qualifier Event today, welcoming 12 teams and around 140 young people for a day packed with energy, teamwork and high-quality competition. Photo by Carl Roberston The event showcased the rapid growth of flag football across the region, with participants demonstrating excellent skill, sportsmanship and enthusiasm throughout the day. Teams competed across multiple age groups, culminating in the crowning

Cardiff Met has officially recruited its 2026 Sagittarii Committee, and this group is ready to shake up matchdays across campus. Their induction on Friday 2 February set the tone. Their first outing at Refreshers Fayre on Monday proved one thing fast: the Sagittarii are here. The Sagittarii takes its name from the Latin for archers, and the mission is just as sharp. Build a crowd. Build a community. Build a matchday atmosphere that students talk about long after the final whi

Cardiff Metropolitan University has announced a new partnership with Kitlocker, bringing the world-leading Nike brand to all areas of its sporting offer for the first time. The agreement covers performance sport teams, junior programmes, athlete leisurewear, and staff clothing, uniting the entire Cardiff Met Sport community under one brand identity. For the first time, this partnership links together all performance sports and junior programmes, including Cardiff Met’s Nati

Cardiff Metropolitan University has partnered with premium fitness brand Built for Athletes to launch a bespoke, limited-edition backpack designed specifically for student-athletes. This collaboration brings together two organisations united by a commitment to high performance, innovation, and supporting the next generation of athletes. The maroon and gold bags, available with either an ArcHER or Archer patch, are now on sale exclusively to Cardiff Met students, staff and

Cardiff Metropolitan University has proudly celebrated 20 years of the Volunteer Zambia project, an international sport-for-development initiative that has transformed lives across Zambia while offering life-changing opportunities for Cardiff Met students and staff members. The three-day Twentieth Anniversary Gala (TAG), held in Lusaka from 4-6 August 2025, brought together key Zambian and UK stakeholders to mark two decades of partnership with Zambian NGO Sport in Action. S

Cardiff Metropolitan University has been named Educational Institution of the Year at the prestigious Fevo Sports Industry Awards 2025. Cardiff Met triumphed in a category alongside respected institutions such as Loughborough Sport, Manchester Met Uni Institute of Sport, News Associates & Sportsbeat, the European Sponsorship Association and University Academy 92. The university stood out for its commitment to developing elite athletes, working with disadvantaged communities