Herne's Cup returns! Taking place July 19th & 20th July 2025.
At Herne’s Cup, with our first event we wanted to create an environment for newer and intermediate level HEMA competitors to test their skills against their peers. Now we're opening it up to fighters of all ability levels in a full open tournament, with the addition of a Longsword A & B Split.
The open will be held at Radley College, Kennington Road, Abingdon, OX14 2HR, UK.
We also wanted our tournaments to be a safe environment with a clear ruleset which promotes clean fencing and sportsmanship. As such, we have written a ruleset aimed at making matches engaging and competitive, whilst also ensuring safety with a clear penalty system. Our overall aim for Herne’s Cup events is to make all rules as clear and codified as possible: we want to avoid interpretation of core rules, meaning that all competitors know the rules and our expectations before their first match begins.
Our commitment to Women’s + HEMA
At Herne’s Cup, we’re making it our aim to highlight the growing popularity and quality of Women and Under-represented Genders (W+) tournaments in the UK. To ensure we highlight the success of W+ fencers at Herne’s Cup, we will be running tournaments across all weapons in both Open and W+ categories. Also, all medal matches across both categories will be fought independently of any other matches. When you fight for a medal at Herne’s Cup, you will have the whole room watching!
On that note, we are pleased to announce will be running both Open and Woman's+ Tournaments in the following weapons:
Please click the buttons below to download and familiarise yourself with the eligibility criteria, tournament and equipment rules.
LET THE HUNT BEGIN!
Meet the Organisers.
With years of UK and International tournament experience between them, the Herne's Cup Committee are dedicated to bringing quality events to the UK HEMA scene. On the tournament weekend, the committee will be on hand to assist with any logistics or rules questions. Let us know if you have any questions or feedback so we can run the best event possible for our community!
