Irish Match Racing National Championship Series 2025

The 2025 Match Racing National Championships Series is set to showcase the best of match racing talent across the nation. Scheduled to take place over several weekends in 2025, this series aims to promote competitive sailing while fostering the discipline of match racing from the ground up. In each qualifying event, teams will compete in a round-robin format leading to knockout rounds, followed by finals racing. Each qualifying event has applied to be a World Sailing Grade 4 event meaning that skippers will recieve a world sailing ranking following the event.

While each is a stand alone event, results will go towards a skippers qualification into the Grade 3 Irish Match Racing National Championships this September.

Skippers must fill in the Request for Invitation form for each event

Further details can be found in the series Notice of Race Below

Qualifying Events

  • Qualifier 1 - Royal Irish Yacht Club

    15th - 17th March 2025

    J80s

    Request Invitation

  • Qualifier 2 - Howth Yacht Club

    12th - 13th April 2025

    J80s

    Request Invitation

  • Qualifier 3 - Waterford Harbour Sailing club

    18-20 July 2025 (TBC)

    RS 21’s

    Request for Invitation Available Soon

  • Qualifier 4 - National Yacht Club

    9th - 10th August

    Elliott 6m

    Request for Invitation Available soon

 Frequently Asked Questions

  • The Irish Match Racing National Championships!

    Up to 12 invites will be issued for the IMRA National Championships in September 2025.

    Invites will be extended to skippers in the following order:

    1. Most recent IMRA National Champion

    2. The current Student Champion

    3. Winners of qualifier 1, 2, 3 & 4

    4. The next top 2 Skippers on the Qualifier Leaderboard

    5. 2 Wild cards given at the discretion of IMRA

  • Everyone! There is no need to have done any previous match racing events or have an existing ranking. The goal of qualifiers is to get people match racing.

  • In order to ensure equitable access to qualifying events we ask that Skippers fill in a Request for Invitation form. From there IMRA will decide on invites for each qualifier based in the following order: 

    1. Irish Skippers who have not competed in any qualifier will be given priority

    2. Invites will then be given based on when the request was submitted (First come first serve). 

    3. One entry will be reserved for each Host Club

  • The cost for each event is detailed in the Series Notice of Race

Any Questions?

If you have any queries about the 2025 Series please do not hesitate to contact us