Season Archives

Westward Ho!The Old Citizens tour of the West Country and Wales May 2017John Reynolds reports: Three-a-side fives exists! Bat fives lives! Handball is still being played in Wales!The Old Citizens hav…

Mike HardingTributes to Mike Harding, former Honorary Secretary of the Old Salopian Eton Fives Club from 1979 to 1998, have been pouring in since his untimely death at the age of 68.

Lifetime Achievement Award for Martin Powell13/05/17: The 2017 EFA Dinner and awards ceremony at Abercorn School last night saw Martin Powell presented with a well-deserved lifetime achievement award…

International Fives at EtonJohn Reynolds reports:11/05/17: A dozen Swiss fives players have just visited London, playing a six-pair match against the Old Citizens and taking part in their venerable c…

Veterans 2017: Old'uns but Good'unsGraham Pulsford reports:02/05/17: The Veterans Competition continues to be a great finale to the fives season and is a pleasing opportunity to spend an afternoon pl…

Masters of the MixedWatch the final here: GAME 1 GAME 224/04/17: A near record entry of 24 pairs took part in the 2017 Mixed Tournament at Eton yesterday, as undoubtedly the strongest field in…

EFA Awards 2017: Vote Now!As is now traditional, the EFA Dinner on May 12th will see the presentation of the EFA Awards for the following categories: Player of the Year, Young Player of the Year, Tea…

Kinnaird Final 2017: Seven Up for Cooley & Dunbar03/04/17: Seb Cooley & Tom Dunbar continued their recent dominance of the Kinnaird Cup and maintained their remarkable unbeaten record with a convinci…

Ladies Final 2017: Five In A Row For Hird & Cooley03/04/17: Defending champions Karen Hird & Charlotta Cooley won their fifth consecutive ladies title at Eton yesterday with a hard fought 12-7, 10-13…

Aberconway Cup 2017: Just Williams03/04/17: Guy & Grant Williams regained the Aberconway Cup at Eton with a thrilling three game victory in the final against close rivals and defending champions Mike…

Ladies Final and Kinnaird Cup Final PreviewThis Sunday sees the final of the two Eton Fives national championships with defending champions Tom Dunbar & Seb Cooley and Karen Hird & Charlotta Cooley d…

2017 Marsh National Schools' Championships27/03/17: The 2017 Marsh National Schools' Championships concluded on Saturday after a record-breaking week of Fives. Over 670 pairs from 33 schools - includ…

Joe Leach: \"Eton Fives Is A Great Game...\"21/03/17: Newly appointed Worcestershire cricket captain Joe Leach has taken to Twitter recently to show his appreciation for Eton Fives.

STOP PRESS. To all members of the Eton Fives Community: The FiveStar Project Arrives!The Eton Fives Association Board at its meeting in October 2016 agreed an historic, seven-year strategy to create …

Old Harrovians Clinch Division 1 Title21/03/17: The Old Harrovians clinched the 2016/17 League Division 1 title last night with a convincing 3-0 win at home over the Old Westminsters. The OHs were ab…

St.Olave's Win The Williams CupMark Williams reports:05/03/17: St Olave's won the Williams Cup by just 3 points for the first time for 20 years and the third time overall. They had the strongest team…

2017 Prep Schools' ChampionshipsGuy Smith-Bingham reports:18/03/17: The Preparatory Schools Fives Championship 2017 was won by Sunningdale in a well fought final against Summer Fields.

Wallball Star Timbo Gonzalez Tries Eton FivesPaul Bowden reports:17/03/17: On 11th and 12th March the EFA hosted a visit from the top handball player in the world, Red Bull athlete Timbo Gonzalez. He…

EFA Trophy 2017: Aldenham Make It 2 In 3 Years13/03/17: Aldenham won the EFA Trophy for the second time in three years at Eton yesterday, after defeating defending champions Oxford University in the …

Kinnaird Cup semi-finals: Same Again!13/03/17: There were no surprises in the Kinnaird Cup semi-finals at Eton yesterday as the top two seeds Tom Dunbar & Seb Cooley and James Toop & Matthew Wiseman …

Varsity Match 2017: Eton's House of Blues06/03/17: The Varsity Match at Eton on Saturday produced a whitewash in the men's match as Oxford swept the board, winning all six pairs. The women's match wa…

New Fives Coach/Manager at Westway28/02/17: The EFA and Westway Sports and Fitness are delighted to welcome Daniel Pritchard as the new Fives Coach/Manager at Westway.

The competition, founded in 1965 by Alan Barber, then President of the EFA, and won in its inaugural year by the Old Edwardians, was first won by the Olavians in 1971; in the 21st century they have w…

Ladies Championships 2017: Lumbard & Scoones To Challenge The Champions27/02/17: The ladies championships took place at Eton on Saturday, a week after the men's equivalent, and suffered nothing in co…

Kinnaird Cup 201720/02/17: The initial rounds of 2017 Kinnaird Cup at Eton over the weekend threw up some absolutely fantastic Fives and whittled a relatively small but extremely strong field down to…

Mike Hughes Cup 2017Mark Williams reports:06/02/17: Five schools comprising seven teams entered the inaugural Under 15 team competition for the Mike Hughes Cup, which was an encouraging start; the co…

Under 21s 2017: Young Guns (Go For It)13/02/17: The 2017 Under 21 tournament produced a thrilling day of Fives in arctic conditions at Eton yesterday. Highgate's Phoebe Bracken and Amira Reimer domin…

2017 Northern Tournament: Toop and Wiseman Roll Back The Years06/02/17: An astonishing 73 pairs - a new record - took part in a vintage Northern Tournament over the weekend. The absence due to work c…

Universities Mixed 2017: Liverpool At Last30/01/17: After three successive semi-final defeats - some by agonisingly close margins - the Liverpool University pair of Aroop Bhattacharya and Alice Brett…

Cambridge Coaching Workshop28/01/17: Thirteen fives players took part in a one-day Fives workshop on Saturday at the three wonderful Cambridge University Eton Fives courts. James Powley, the Head of …

A.J.N. (Nick) Dawson (1933-2016)Gerald Barber writes:Nick, with his twin brother Tim, was born on the 1st September 1933.

Girls’ Festival at Charterhouse24/01/17: Paul Bowden reports:This year the annual Girls’ Festival which had been held at Berkhamsted for three years moved to Charterhouse by kind invitation of Master…

REFCA U15s Individual and U14s Three Pair CupHoward Wiseman & Dominique Redmond report:23/01/17: On Sunday the 22nd of January, two REFCA tournaments filled the 14 available courts at Harrow school.

The Cox Self-Invitational Eton Fives Challenge29th December 2016: match report by various CooleysAs 2016 drew to a close, an intrepid band of fives players and assorted hangers-on dodged Christmas re…

EFA ArchivesMost of you will by now be familiar with the new EFA website. You may not have realised that the website now contains an extensive and ever-increasing digital archive of reports, photos, …

EFA Trophy 2017: Bad Weather Fails to Rain on the EFA Trophy Parade16/01/17: For the second year in succession, wet weather and tricky conditions affected the qualifying rounds for the EFA trophy, bu…

New Innovations in Fives Court Building TechnologyJan 2017: The search has been on for a while for a cheaper alternative method of building Fives courts. Could Karen Hird have found the answer?

2017 Ipswich Tournament: Lyle and Lumbard Leave Graves Challengers Dead and Buried09/01/17: With 2016 finally consigned to the scrap heap of history, January 2017 saw the Graves Cup sailing towards t…

Training Day for CoachesPaul Bowden reports:09/01/17: On Sunday 8th January Howard Wiseman ran a four hour training session for those fairly new to Fives coaching in schools.

Festive FivesRalph Morgan reports:23/12/16: On Sunday 18th December, the Old Citizens held their Festive Fives event at Highgate, welcoming strong contingents from the City of London School and the C…

All at C: Fancy Dress Fives at AldenhamPhil Lyndon reports:21/12/16: Players at the Aldenham Heath Fives Club turned out in fancy dress last night (Tuesday 20 December) for an evening of fun and frol…

Three is the Magic Number...19/12/16: Sunday saw the Fives players of North Oxford take on their biennial Three Code Challenge for the third time, with 16 players playing Eton Fives at Eton, Rugby Fi…

2016 Turnbull Trophy: Five in a Row for St.Olave's12/12/16: The Olavian pair of Seb Cooley and Tom Gallagher piled on the records in the 2016 Graham Turnbull Trophy at Eton yesterday with a fifth con…

London Tournament 2016: Harrow - is it three you're looking for?05/12/16: The London Tournament has been back at Harrow for three years now, and 2016 saw a third win out of three for Seb Cooley and T…

150 Up for REFCA28/11/16: Two more hugely successful REFCA junior tournaments took place over the weekend, with Sunday's U12 Individual Tournament their 150th competition.

REFCA Youngsters Aim HighHoward Wiseman & Dominique Redmond report:Nov 2016: The season has got off to a great start and November is a busy month for REFCA's school tournament scene.

150 Years of Fives at Uppingham15/11/16: Nearly 100 OUs and partners gathered in Uppingham on Saturday 12th November to celebrate 150 years of Eton Fives at the School. The game was introduced to Upp…

Fives Stars: Five in a Row for Highgate at the Black Cup14/11/16: Highgate completed a nap hand of successive wins in the Richard Black Cup at Eton yesterady, defeating perennial rivals North Oxford …