Cornwall Shinty Club

Team sheets for our first match of the English Shinty League season at home against Durham Shinty Club on Saturday, 2pm start. Looking forward to a great game and fun night out afterwards! Starting at 5.30pm Jacobs Ladder the sister pub to our generous summer tour sponsors The Old Inn, massive thank you to them for sponsoring us! Where Sianti Mor will be performing. We will also be heading to our amazing sponsor Finn Mcouls as well on Saturday.

As always feel free to come along and watch.

Our first league match for the ESL summer season is against on Saturday 13th June. 2pm start at the top pitch of the Dracaena Centre in Falmouth (TR11 2ES). Heading into Falmouth for a fun night at the Shanty Festival afterwards!

We are looking forward to a great game, hopefully see lots of you out, as always feel free to come a long and watch!

Watch this space for more updates :)

Apologies if I caused any confusion to those who saw the previous post which had the wrong date on!

This afternoon we had Town V Gown. We played 9 a side with the townies winning 6-1. Well done to all the players and thank you everyone for coming.

Well done to for getting top women’s goal scorer! And to for getting top men’s goal scorer, this season.

On Saturday we attended Bristol 6s tournament to kick of the ESA summer league. Overall in the tournament one of our teams came 3rd behind 2 very strong teams from Bristol and London. With our other coming 5th behind Durham.
We all had an amazing time and all played great, we are looking forward to the rest of the season with our next match at home against Durham on the 13th June.

But this weekend we take a break and have our Town V Gown game at the Channel 4 pitch in Falmouth, hopefully this will be a 12 match so would love as many people to come along as possible!

Apologies for the slight delay in posting the dates for the upcoming ESA Summer League!
The team listed first is the club playing at home :)
Hope lots of you can make our matches!
As alway we welcome new player and spectators 🏑

In 2 weeks time on Sunday 3rd May we have Town v Gown where the current students play against local players. We will be at the Channel 4 Pitch in Falmouth (TR11 4LH) 2-4pm, hopefully see lots of people there!

Feel free to come along and watch :)

After the match we hope to head to Gylly beach for a social but this is weather dependent, if not we will head to Finns!

Next weekend (Sunday 19th April) we will be running our first taster session of the year! At the Dracaena Centre in Falmouth 2-4pm. This will likely be followed by a social to pub (or beach if the weather is nice!)

No experience is needed and all abilities are welcome to join! All the kit that you will need is provided! Hope to see lots of people there :)

Training is back on as usual Wednesday’s 6-8pm and Sunday’s 2-4pm if you can’t make the taster session feel free to come along to a training session!

Over the Easter weekend some of our members joined with to play in 2 cup matches as well as in St Andrews Sixes where Cornwall came second to Poland (ahead of England and Fife) in the 4 nations.
Congratulations to the ladies team for their 3-2 win against in the first round of The Challenge Cup. With one of the fastest goals by ESA in a Scottish match by and a cracking goal from and with Rowan Hopkins getting our winning goal!
The men unfortunately didn’t share the winning success, they lost to 7-2. But they all played amazingly!

Thank you to all those who planned Easter tour, we are looking forward to our next trip up to Scotland in the coming months!

Slightly belated Christmas post!
These are the results of the awards given out at our Christmas dinner last month - thank you to all the business which sponsored each award.
Congratulations to all those who won awards and hope everyone who came had an amazing time!
Thank you for for joining us, after playing a couple of very muddy matches in the SWSL.
Hope everyone had a lovely Christmas and has a wonderful 2026! Looking forward to seeing everyone and playing lots more shinty in 2026!