Aberdeen Sports Village

Sports Village full sized indoor football pitch

Sports Village games hall

Kings Pavilion

Kings Pavilion is an art deco building built in the 1930s, containing the swimming pool, performance gym, performance suite and away outdoor changing rooms.

Aberdeen University Kings Pavilion

Butchart Recreation Centre

Butchart Recreation Centre was constructed in the 1950s, where it was the sports Hub of the university for over 40 years. Butchart closed its doors as a sport facility on 26 July 2009 before reopening as Aberdeen University's Students' Association

Kings Playing Fields

Kings Playing Fields has two rugby pitches, a cricket wicket and lacrosse pitch. Away changing is done in Kings Pavilion and home changing in Butchart Recreation Centre.

Hillhead Centre

Hillhead Centre is just up the road opposite Hillhead Halls of Residence. It houses the Grampian Institute of Sport, bar and conference suite. It has a floodlit full-size grass football pitch, currently home to Aberdeen University F.C. (and formerly home to Junior team Hillhead F.C./Bridge of Don Thistle before they moved to the village of Newburgh) and sand based floodlit full-size hockey pitch.

Balgownie Playing Fields

Balgownie Playing Fields is further up the road from the Hillhead Centre and consists of a floodlit rugby training area, club storage, bar and club room, changing rooms, flood lit running track, floodlit football pitch and football, rugby, Gaelic football and shinty playing fields.

Aberdeen University Boat House

Aberdeen University Boat House is found on the River Dee housing all the universities rowing boats.

Other facilities used by the Sports Union to house clubs include Zeste Dining Room, Hillhead Games Hall, Aberdeen City Council Altens football pitches, Aberdeen City Council Torry Games Hall and Aberdeen City Council Jesmond Games Hall.

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Superteams

Superteams is normally the second weekend of March and is one of the flagship events attracting approximately 480 students to compete and 60 student volunteers. It is the largest one-day event of its kind in Scotland. The event is made up of teams of seven with no more than four from the opposite sex, the team must also nominate a Superman and Superwoman. This is a fun event and separated into many bases, some of which over the years have included; Go-Karting, Abseiling, Tug of war, Sprints, Sumo Wrestling, Bungee Runs, Paintballing and Orienteering.

Blues Ball

The Sports Blues Ball is traditionally the first Thursday in February and it the annual recognition of sporting achievement at the university where the five Sports Trophies are awarded along with the Blues. It is the largest all seated sports ball in Scotland. Guest speakers have included Jimmy Hill, Jason White, Ally McCoist, Clive Tyldesley, Doddie Weir, Gordon Smith and Chris Cusiter and Tim Baillie.

The Boat Race

The annual boat race between University of Aberdeen and Robert Gordon University has been competed for since 1995. The University of Aberdeen has lost only four times, in 2006, 2009, 2012 and 2013 Aberdeen Asset Management sponsor the event.

Granite City Challenge

Aberdeen University Granite City Challenge

One of the largest varsity events in Britain competed annually in the week before the Easter holidays in March. All sports are competed for on the Wednesday of the week. Since its conception in 1996 University of Aberdeen have only been beaten once by their city rivals Robert Gordon University, in 2008.

Kings Football Sixes

Aberdeen University Football Club is older than Aberdeen F.C. formed in 1889. The success of the rugby sevens is rivalled by that of the football and is normally the weekend after the rugby.

Kings Rugby Sevens

Boasting one of the oldest rugby teams in the world, formed in 1875, the university also hosts one of the largest university rugby events in Scotland. The tournament is usually hosted on the last weekend of April or the first weekend after the Easter holidays.

British University & College Sport (BUCS)

The University of Aberdeen affiliates to BUCS annually. BUCS is responsible for the organisation of the majority of university sport and claims to set more sports fixtures than any other sports organisation in Europe. Every sport that is recognised by BUCS is allocated points. These are compiled and at the end of the season all institutions are ranked for sport.

Scottish Student Sport (SSS)

The University of Aberdeen affiliates to Scottish Student Sport annually. SSS runs a lot of the sports events and fixtures on behalf of BUCS in Scotland, in particular the British University Games (BUCS). SSS also takes responsibility for a lot of the sports BUCS does not recognise such as rifle, shinty, Gaelic football and curling.