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Full name | University of Bath – Team Bath |
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Founded | 1971 |
Based in | University of Bath Claverton Down Bath, Somerset |
Colours | Blue and gold |
Website | www.teambath.com |
Team Bath is the University of Bath's sporting organisation. In addition to entering teams in BUCS intervarsity competitions, Team Bath has also entered teams in national leagues and competitions. Team Bath F.C. reached the first round proper of the 2002–03 FA Cup. They become the first university team to reach this stage since Oxford University A.F.C. in 1880. In 2005–06 the netball team were both founder members and the inaugural champions of the Netball Superleague. They were Superleague champions again in 2006–07, 2008–09, 2009–10 and 2013. The field hockey club enter a team in the Men's England Hockey League.
Team Bath's main sports complex is the Sports Training Village based at the University of Bath campus at Claverton Down. The university has hosted several sporting events, including the 1995 European Youth Summer Olympic Days, the 2019 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone competition and the 2023 UIPM Laser-Run and Pentathlon World Championships. The facilities at the University of Bath have also been used as a training base by many individual Olympians and Paralympians.