The Corpus Challenge is not running in 2024, but we look forward to its return in 2025!

The Corpus Challenge is one of the key dates of the Corpus calendar, and one of the most fun days of Corpus and Oxford life. It is a yearly sporting battle between us and our sister college, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

We compete in almost all sports – hockey, football, lacrosse, netball, badminton, frisbee, rugby, rowing and many others. We even throw the field open to bar sports – pool, darts, table tennis and table football – as well as a game of FIFA. After the sport, we celebrate in the form of the Challenge Formal and a night out or bop together.

You can find out more in this vlog by Teneeka Mai.

History

According to the Tabs, the Challenge began in 1995 and became an annual event in 1997. Here is the full record of winnings as engraved on the Challenge Cup, which leaves the total score at 14:11 to Oxford.

 

Year	Host	Winner	Report
2023	Cambridge	Cambridge
2022	Oxford	Oxford
2021
2020	Cancelled – COVID 19
2019	Oxford	Oxford
2018	Cambridge	Cambridge	2018 Report
2017	Oxford	Oxford	2017 Report
2016	Cambridge	Cambridge
2015	Oxford	Cambridge
2014	Cambridge	Cambridge
2013	Oxford	Oxford
2012	Cambridge	Cambridge
2011	Oxford	Cambridge
2010	Cambridge	Cambridge
2009	Oxford	Oxford
2008	Cambridge	Oxford
2007	Oxford	Oxford
2006	Cambridge	Cambridge
2005	Oxford	Oxford
2004	Cambridge	Oxford
2003	Oxford	Oxford
2002	Cambridge	Oxford
2001	Oxford	Oxford
2000	Cambridge	Oxford
1999	Oxford	Cambridge
1998	Cambridge	Oxford
1997	Oxford	Oxford
1995		Oxford