Getting people to play Pétanque
Here are just a few competitions occurring in the next few weeks, and some are a bit further away but still worthwhile entering. This summer, Affiliate Club Competitions For further information on these competitions, please refer to the online calendar. To support this event, register your team by clicking here. To support this event, click […]
Results The following teams have qualified to represent Wales at the Home Nations Championship, hosted by the Whitnash Windmill Petanque Club, over the weekend of 12th/13th August 2023. Congratulations to those teams representing Wales, but also to the two qualifying reserve teams and four teams which unfortunately failed to qualify. All the games were played […]
The 2023 Celtic Challenge will be hosted by the Irish Petanque Association over the first May bank holiday. To date we have eight teams registered for the qualifying event on Sunday 4th September at the Monkstone PC. Further information can be read by following the link below. 2023 Celtic Challenge Qualifier Registration will close at […]
We have received the invitation to Petanque England’s annual Inter-regional Championship and Challenge Cup, in which the WPA has historically competed. It is being held on 17th-18th September 2022 at Pakefield Holiday Village, off A12 London Road, Pakefield, NR33 7PF. The venue this year will return to its former ideal of having players stay on-site […]
Invitation to enter. The following International events are now scheduled for 2022: May 12-15: WC Singles, Doubles & Mixed (Karlslunde, Denmark) June 3-5: EC Triples Women (Torrelavega, Spain) July 13-17: EC Singles, Doubles & Mixed (’s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands) The WPA would like to send teams to each of these competitions. These will be chosen by an […]
The qualification competition was to see which club will represent Wales at the 23rd European Cup for Clubs – 2021 at Saint Yrieix, FRANCE, in early December. The qualification competition was held on Saturday 9th October between Monkstone PC and South Wales Bowls & Recreation Centre Pétanque Section – Sully (formerly Penarth PC). The first […]
A big thank you to all the players who turned out over last weekend to compete for a place to represent Wales at the 2022 Celtic Challenge, being held in Scotland. Thanks also to Monkstone PC for hosting the event over both days. It’s fair to say the conditions all weekend was “challenging” – reminiscent […]