External Matches and Competitions
The Club has an extensive fixture list which includes a mixture of friendly and external matches against clubs from London and further afield. It also has a number of doubles matches against a range of clubs, including a biennial fixture against Ireland’s Fitzwilliam Club.
The Club also runs and enters teams in both the Bath Club Cup and the Alma Cup.
For more information, please email squashpro@royalautomobileclub.co.uk
Bath Club Cup
The Bath Club Cup runs from September to March with Division One comprising of 12 teams, Division Two 10 teams and the Veterans Division 9 teams. The Club has teams which compete in Divisions One, Two and the Veterans.
Please click here to see the leagues from the current Bath Club Cup season.
Alma Cup
The Alma Cup is a squash doubles league with 10 teams taking part and four players making up two pairs. The top positioned teams after all the matches have been played compete in the final for the honour of being crown Alma Cup champions. This takes place at Pall Mall at the end of June.
Please click here to see the leagues for the current Alma Cup season.
The Londonderry Cup
The Londonderry Cup is the public schools’ old boys’ competition and is one of the oldest tournaments in the squash rackets calendar. The cup was presented in 1934 by the International Sportsmen’s Club, which named it after its president, Lord Londonderry. The Club runs this annual competition, which has around 15 teams taking part. The finals are played at Pall Mall in March, with the winning team being presented with the prestigious cup at the post final dinner.
Please click here to view the previous winners.
The Surrey Cup
The Surrey Cup takes place at Woodcote Park with the Club competing in the winter (three teams), summer (two teams) and Veterans (two teams) competitions. Please click here to see the leagues for the current Surrey Cup seasons.
Contact Oli Pett if you would like to be added to any of the squads for Surrey Cup.
The Drysdale Cup
The winner of the Boys Under-19 competition at the British Junior Open Squash Championships (BJO) is awarded The Drysdale Cup, a magnificent-looking silver trophy of unique four-faceted design and standing well over a foot high. The Cup is named after Dr Theodore Drysdale, who could be said to be the grandfather of the BJO.
Drysdale was one of the early pioneers of the game and a member of the Royal Automobile Club, winning the Club’s first Open Championship, held in 1919/20. Drysdale was the first honorary secretary of the Tennis and Rackets Association’s Squash Rackets Representative Committee, the game’s first organising body, which went on to become the Squash Rackets Association (SRA), now England Squash.
In 1925 Drysdale suffered a mosquito bite which became infected and died of acute septicaemia within a fortnight. As a memorial, friends at the Club decided to pursue his vision and subscribed a substantial sum for the fine silver trophy. Named the Drysdale Cup, the new prize was to be competed for by boys aged Under-19. The inaugural competition took place at the Pall Mall Clubhouse in April 1926.
Please click here for the full history and results.
The Orriss-Courtney Cup
Back in 1926, the Club initiated a junior championship as a memorial to Club member, Dr Theodore Drysdale, and Club members subscribed to provide a substantial silver trophy for the event. This competition became known as ‘The Drysdale Cup’ and now forms the boys Under-19 event in the British Junior Open Squash Championships (BJO), one of the most prestigious tournaments in the world junior squash calendar. In 2018, the tournament organisers, England Squash, approached the Club to present a similar trophy for the girls Under-19 event. The Club was happy to comply, and since 2019 the girls in the BJO Under-19 event have competed for the new trophy, the Orriss-Courtney Cup named by the Club after two of its most distinguished members who have done a great deal for squash, both at the Club and in the administration of the wider game, Chris Orriss and Stuart Courtney.
Premier Squash League
The Premier Squash League is a tournament organised by England Squash where teams from around the UK compete for the title of National Champions.
Pall Mall has hosted a team since the 2017/18 season. We were runners up on that occasion, winning the title the following year. The pandemic brought a halt to proceedings for the next two seasons but as the 2022/23 campaign is reaching its finale, the Club is poised to take the title for a second time.
Please click here for more information.
