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We have 3 teams in the National League, Men's in Div 2, Ladies Team In Div 1, National Youth League Div 1. We train at Aberfan pool every Thursday 8-10pm. Team colours are Blue Boats, Red/White Buoyancy Aids, White Helmets. If you are interested in playing some friendly games or getting together for some training. More details from Paul Lineham
We play canoe polo in Alkmaar (40 Kilometres North of Amsterdam). We play in the lowest class (the second class in the Netherlands) but this year we will be promoted to the first class. Our trainer is Erwin Roos.
For more details contact Djurre Koopmans

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South West London canoe club, we play polo and also offer white water, sea kayaking, surfing etc. For further details please see our website or contact Malcolm
If any teams would like a polo training session, we have  indoor and outdoor facilities, based in Bedford Town Centre. To date we have played host to Cherwell, Soak, Luton Old Boys. Bere Forest and a number of other  teams, some have even travelled from Liverpool! New members are always welcome. For more information check out our web page or contact: Ben or Nigel Murray

Blakedown Canoe Polo is run by Blakedown Scout Group, Membership of the Club is not only for the uniformed members as the Groups Scout Fellowship section caters for all. For more info Contact Nigel Elwell

We have a superb two pitch permanent outdoor training facility available all year. We run teams in many National League's as well as in the local West Midlands league. More details from Nigel by email 

...has A,B and C teams in the National legues which are in divisions 2, 3 and 4 respectively. We train mainly on Monday nights between 7 and 9:30pm on the River Chelmer in Chelmsford. We are always looking for new players or teams to train with us. For more information contact Ian Fisher or Tim Machin

Regular Pool Sessions at Pencoed Leisure Centre, Wed.8-10.00pm. Home waters River Ogmore. Interests; slalom, polo, river touring, surf and general recreation. Can accommodate beginners and people with disabilities.

Contact Tim Morris

For contact details, please check out the club web site.

Contact Catherine Jenkins

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The 2000 Italian Champions !!! Our Club E-mail : canoaclubpalermo@hotmail.com or Anto
For any further details email Barto
We are base at Woodgreen Leisure Centre, Banbury and make use of it's 50m heated outdoor pool. A mixed squad of about fifteen or more players with a range of skill level's. Able to field two good Div Three / Four teams at National league & most Internationals level.
With past paddling experience anybody welcome. Training Summer at Woodgreen (outdoors), Winter at Stratford leisure Centre (Indoors).
We also have a facility to share training sessions with other clubs. For further details E-mail.
The club has a regular polo session on a Wednesday night 7:30 - 8:30pm at Clapham Manor Pool on Manor Road, just off Clapham High Street.
The session is fairly mixed ability but most players have been playing for a while and the session can be quite lively at times!!  We adjourn to the Manor Arms public house afterwards until chucking out time!
We run two teams:- Clapham 'A' is in Division 3 South and Claphamothers were in Div 4 SE but have not entered this year. We enter local, regional, national and foreign tournaments. The Amsterdam tournament run by Sloterplas is our favourite tournament, and have also been to
Charleroi, Sluis, Ypres, Hull and Liverpool. New members are always welcome !
Contact: Paddy Wilkinson

Our Club is in Lisbon near "Expo98". More details from the web site or club email or Joco Vilaga

The canoe polo team is four year old and currently comprises nine players. We are partecipating in the second division Italian Championship and also usually take part in some international tournaments. For more information E-mail.

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Contact Andrew Evans

We are based in Carmarthen, South Wales but have players spread across the UK. We have a Ladies team in National league Div 1, Welsh league Div 1 and SW Invitation league. The Men's team are newly promoted (2002) into the British National Div 1. They also play in Welsh league Div 1 and the S W invitation league. Players in the teams tend to train locally to where they live as well as occasionally in teams at the Morris Farm pond where there is a permanent polo pitch throughout the year. Dragon tend to play around 10 International tournaments a year and are always looking for new competitions to attend.
Team colours are Marble Red boats, Silver/Red Helmets, and Red, Green & White buoyancy aids. If any teams are interested in arranging friendly games, training or require more info please contact Hywel Whitaker - Web Master Chris Arrowsmith.

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Like to travel and play against many other teams for the experience. Contact: Christophe Perritaz. Email

Our club has a really good web-site maintained by Lars Bjørstrup. We have just added a brief introduction in English and translation of some Danish words (English info). Otherwise the page is in Danish – but there are quite a few pictures.

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Friends of Allonby Liverpool Canoe Club - England
 
We have numerous teams for paddlers of all abilities.  The club trains at the purpose-built Canoe Polo and Slalom Facility in Queens Dock runs a number of International Standard polo competitions each year.  For further information visit the club website or contact Mike Moffit

The Merseyside International in June now has entry form and full details online at the clubs website

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In our polo team there are nine players. We play in B series of the Italian Chanpionship. Last year we arrived in the fifty place together another team. We train in Rome at the Mariner Canoa Club. G.C.Roma is associated with F.I.C.K. (Italian Federation Canoe Kayak). This summer we intend to spend two weeks in France with slalom and polo training in connection with F.I.C.F. Our captain's name is Matteo Rotondi and the name of the team is Gruppo Canoe Roma. If you have other question write us (Andrea e Matteo) soon.

For contact into any of the German Clubs or German Competitions, of for a member of the German Canoe Polo Committee contact: Olimpia Torres
Presently the GB Squads could potentially include players from England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, though only English and Scottish players currently feature in the squads.
The GB Canoe Polo Squads are made of teams from the following:-
Two Men's, Two Ladies, one U21 Men and one U21 Ladies.
For contact details for any of the above Email Peter Mitchell
For details of any other contact of the Great Britain Canoe Polo Committee and it's members Email Gerry McCusker.
More details Email Tom Van Wesemael
More details Email Robert Aitken

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Holte is a suburb about 15 km north of Copenhagen. The rowing club has a long tradition in sprint canoeing and provides the three Danish sprint padlers participating in this years olympics . Canoe polo has only been played for four seasons in Denmark and became part of the clubs program almost two years ago. Currently the polo team consist of former sprint kayakers. The team became Danish champions in 1999 and participated in the European championship in 1999.

We would very much like to come in contact with other clubs. Polo players visiting Denmark are welcome to join our two weekly training sessions in (Thur 17.30, Sun 13.30) even though they are just staying for a couple of days.
For more details contact: Peter Sørensen or André Korshin.

Teams Colours are Red & White boats.  Red & white buoyancy aids.  White helmets. The club meets weekly at South Hunsley School swimming pool on a Monday night at 17:00.  For general enquiries please contact Club Secretary Contact - Irene Dudley

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We have two teams ,one plays in the Italian league second division , better known as "A1", while the other plays in the third division (B).
The teams are very young and all the players are from 18 to 25.
Our club has also a flat water canoe team that provides two athletes to the Italian National team, we do also have windsurf and sailing activities.

Our clubhouse is placed in one of the most attractive seasides of Italy , the place is called Mondello, that is 10 km far from Palermo , and it often hosts world windsurf competitions.
We are really interested to have an exchange experience with international clubs. It could be very interesting to play with overseas players, and also international players would have the chance to visit Sicily, that is a land full of History, Arts and beautiful sites. If anyone is interested , please contact this fax number 004491202818.
Our club complete address is :"Il Clubino del Mare , viale Regina Elena 95/a ,90100 Palermo, Italy."

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Our club is based in the south of belgium in Charleroi (70 km at the south of Brussel), we are the only one on the wallonie (south part of the belgium).

The club is a little club with +/- 40 members, we have 1 team in the national championship first division, and in some occasion it's possible to make a second team.
The kcc have finished the belgian championship at the first place between 1986 and 1996, we finished third in 1997 and second in 1998.
Contact: Gaetano or Johan Delva or Daniel Roelandt

More details from Torsten Karger

Contact Marcus Lemke

Contact Club Web Master
For all info on the Krakens check out their web page or Contact: Andrew Davies. Email
Information on the 2000 Hull international

Our club is located in Kiel, Germany, Check out our web page or email: Club Info or Steffen 

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For info Contact: Sherrie Dewey Email

This Is one of the largest clubs in Australia with over 600 people in the club. We have teams
across the grades in the Sydney comp. We also hold social polo days as well.
For more info contact Thayer Murphy

We are new to U18 National Div 2 this year, playing as Scratch. We hope to qualify for promotion to Div 1. We have also just wrapped up the regional titles for both U16 and U18. We hope to spread the word about our club and offer other young people such as myself the chance to contact another club, at which they could learn their trade. Chris Pallett

We wanted to play polo with some friends. But we only have 8 players and that is to short to begin our own club. So we've asked around and officialy we are one of the REWS teams but we doe everthing on our own. Rews is a club of a different city as Lokeren. More info from Pieter Van Driessche
 

Jon is the club coach and organiser of the University Championships.
Details: Jonathan Walder

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Play Polo in North West Canoe Polo League. Contact: Charlie Mott
Martlet Cougars polo teams are made up from two canoeing club based in Sussex England. Martlet KC is a large club based in Brighton and Crawley CC is based at Tilgate lake Crawley. We train twice a week at Crawley Leisure centre on Mondays and Thursdays between 10pm-11pm. We have 3 teams with two in the National League. Our team colour is red.
We regularly compete in International competitions in the UK and Europe.
If anyone is holding a competition please Email Andy Pumphrey or Danny Gusterson with the details.
Our club is based on the edge of 'The Peak District' in Derbyshire. We compete in Division 3 North, and train regularly on Tuesday nights in
Matlock.
Further details from Marcus Williamson
Based in South East London and North Kent in the Bexleyheath area. We have Many teams in all the National Divisions including two in Division 1. The club host the ever popular London International Canoe Polo Tournament. For more information contact London_International@hotmail.com and london_invitational@hotmail.com directly.
Contact: Mark Preddy (Organiser)
Based in Helsinki, Finland, the club has four teams.Contact: Mikko Nurmi, Eteläinen Humalluoto, 00260 Helsinki, Finland. Email Mikko
A canoe club from Uithoorn, a little town situated some 10km south-east of Amsterdam. The club has two teams, the 'A' team performing in the 2nd division and the 'B' team paddling in the 3rd division. The A-team ended up second for the past three years in the 2nd division of the Dutch National Competition. The team can frequently be seen on tournaments in Holland, Belgium, Germany and yearly in England at the Hull tournament. For more information Contact: Jeroen de Jong

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This team are known in England where they have competed in the Liverpool International Three times. The Club has a first division (Bundesliga) men's team (5th place in 1996) and a first division lady's team (3rd place in 1996) and a second fun-team for men a youth team. New players for all teams are always welcome. The club has an outdoor natural swimming pool, training seasons on Thursday, Wednesday and Tuesday. Contact: Snail Mail - Jens Hoewing, Winterhuder Weg 24, 22085 Hamburg, Germany. Email Jens
 

Nomads were a founder member of the British National Polo League, we have a large membership of all ages. Nomads have competed in polo, slalom, and marathon over the years.

Much more details available from the web site.

For more information please contact, Malcolm Stagg
 

More details from the club Email

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Based in the Huddersfield area and looking for more chic's to join the brood. Email Captain Chicken (Alex)

The club is located on the island Fyn (Fün) in the middle of Denmark. Odense Kajak Klub has 250 members and offers sprint, marathon and polo. We have polo teams for juniors, men and women. At the clubhouse we have a fine polofield that we use at least 3 times a week in the summer. During the winter we practise indoor in a 50m pool 2 times a week. Visitors are welcome to join us. We participate in tournaments in Denmark and Germany. Every year we also organise tournaments in Odense.
Results: 2002 the women's team won the National Championship and had 3 players on the National team that played at the World Champs in Essen.
We are also interested to get in contact with other clubs.

If you would like more information contact Anne-Mette

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Contact: Sebastian Toh. Email
Based in Belmont we are trying to develop in Western Australia (the only State not in competition). Membership Approx 20. 2 Ladies 2 Masters and the rest Open. We play every Monday night approx 6pm to 9pm at Belmont Aquatic Centre, Abernethy Rd, Belmont. During Winter it is indoors heated pool but summer we're outside but 20 - 25c is ideal paddling temperature. Overseas visitors are more than welcome with full equipment available for them to use. ( We have had a few already.) Contact: Email Club
Contact: Tato fiore

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The club is based in Brisbane Australia and has some Australian and past Australian players, from the open mens, womens and veterans teams. There are also a number of husband and wife members including, the Hummerstons, the Solomons, and the McChlerys. Janet Hummerston played in the 1994 Australian womens team, while Keith McChlery played in the 1994 and 1996 mens open team. Chris van Genderan, who was the Captain of the Australian team in 1994 is in the club, and is Queensland's most senior referee. Both Chris and Keith have almost completed their level II coaching certificate.

Other A grade clubs include University of Queensland and the Ipswich Charges. The biggest crowds come to the South Bank competition in winter. This is the old World Expo 88 site, and usually there are about 1500 spectators.

Based in a small town north of Amsterdam, Netherlands. Email Patrick

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Based on the Regent's Canal in central London, Regents is active in most aspects of canoesport.
Informal polo sessions are held on Wednesday evenings at the Porchester Centre in Bayswater, with additional training for the more dedicated at other times.
We currently field three teams - The Dreamers, The Gooners and the infamous Pink Ladies.
Further details from Dave Mountain or Suzi Keating.
Played for 5 years and based in Muelheim near Essen, North West of Germany. They play in the 2nd Devision, but like to compete in Internationals.Contact: Victor Torres. Email

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Based 40Km South of Lisbon in a city named Setzbal, we have three teams (1 men and 2 ladies). We are the National Champions of Portugal in men and ladies. Contact: Clube de Canoegam de Setzbal. Att/ Joco Botelho. Praga da Republica / Doca de Recreio. 2900 Setzbal. Portugal.Or Email: Joao Botelho The club also organises the International Tournament Tróia Cup. Contact Helder Casaca. Fax: +351 +65 +38306 for any information on this event.
A New team 10Km from Palermo in Sicily.
Contact Tato Fiore via e-mail for possible training opportunities in Sicily
South Shore Ladies, a team that competes in Ladies and Open. Last year we won Div 4 Central beating all mens teams. For Further details about the team, Email Jan Davis
Based in the Hull region (East Yorkshire).  We comprise of players from Hull & District C.C., Kingston C.C. and Grimsby C.C.  The team formed, in its present state, in May 1997.  We play in purple boats, purple/grey buoyancy aids and white helmets with purple/grey/green splashes.
We play in the Yorkshire & Humberside region (Division 1), and National
league (Division 1).
Results include:-
Won Yorkshire & Humberside region (Division 1) 1997/8
Won National league (Division 2)  1997/8
Finished 6th in the National Knockout 1998

Our average age is 25, thanks to Alan Neal and Bruce, his long hair makes up for Dale 'Jack Nicolson' Clarkson's slight amount of receding.
Contact: Simon Dudley

All teams play in blue with yellow flashings. The club has participated in the national leagues since their inception and participates in the 'open' , 'youth' and 'ladies' leagues.
Most competitions will have a St. Albans team present whether it be home or abroad and we welcome other clubs to come down and train with us at our facilities. Training takes place across the club most days, both indoors and on rivers, canals and lakes.
With an outdoor polo pitch now at our disposal we would very much like other teams to contact us and meet up. Contact: Andrew Elliott or Dave Sanders
We are situated in the Pewsey Vale in Wiltshire, we meet every Sunday evening at  Pewsey Swimming Pool and also on the canal at Pewsey Wharf during the summer months. The club participates in all aspects of canoeing including
Polo, Whitewater, Slalom, Marath on etc.  Wee also enjoy social meetings after canoeing events to involve the non paddleing members of our club. Contact: Email
Based in South Essex / East of London. The Polo is the only real thing left on the canoeing side of things. Contact :Email Spencer or Email Dave

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Our Club aims to introduce young people over the age of 12 to canoeing by means of canoe polo at Tandridge Leisure Pool in Oxted, Surrey.  We meet on Sunday evenings, 6pm to 8pm.  We welcome complete beginners to canoeing.  We run 2 Leagues, the Development League for novices and the Premier League for those with some experience.  We hope to enter a team in the National Youth League next season.
The Club also welcomes adults, whether beginners or those with experience, and encourages them to acquire new skills and take part in the BCU Coach training programme. More details from Club Secretary, Josie White.
We are are based in Stockton-On-Tees, or thereabouts.  We have been in existence for about three years and compete in North East Div 2,  We are a mixed group, and I think we would admit that were probably not the best polo'ers in the world, but we have some very good paddlers (including an ex-Pink Lady and a Div 1 Stick chaser) and the rest of us enjoy it and are improving - our B team won the Novice League at the Irish International, while the A team put up a fair showing in Div 3.  We've been represented at the comps at Warwick, Hull and Liverpool too this year.
In the summer we train on a Monday night at the Tees Barrage Warm up Lake, through winter we move indoors so we can see each other - venue to be confirmed.
Any standard of paddler who fancies a go at Polo is welcome to come and join us. Email Phil Bentley or Paul Bone.
A canoe club from Haarlem, a town situated some 20 km west from Amsterdam. The club has two teams, the 'A' team performing in the 1st division and the 'B' team paddling in the 3rd division. The A-team usually ends up third or fourth in the Dutch National Competition. The team can frequently be seen in tournaments in Holland, Belgium, Germany and yearly in England at the Hull tournament.
For more details Contact: Erno van Es

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ULU have 4 teams (Men's A & B, Women's, and Old boys). We're based in the West End of London in the Student Union Building in Mallet Street, and have three pool sessions a week. We have maintained a position as one of the top four Canoe Polo universities in the UK for many years. We also play National League with teams competing in Divs 3 and 4 Open and in Div 2 Ladies. We're always interested in friendly's and weekend competitions. Contact: ULU Canoe Polo Club Captain: Poppy Freeman or visit our forum

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We are a new club and are a young, ambitious team in Ulm (South Germany).  In the winter season training starts at 6pm in the Westbad; summertime is not  sure yet...? Guests are always welcome, new menbers, of ourse, too! Contact: Kerstin

US Canoe/Kayak Polo Committee - United States of America

More details from Brad Carr

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The club draws it's roots from the Venture Scouts in the the Derby area, and has ranked teams in every league in Britain other than ladies. Contact: Snail Mail to Pete Mitchell at 3 Hollies Road, Allestree, Derby or Email Andy P

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Wakehurst is the largest Club in NSW and Sydney with approx 200 members. The Club as teams in Grades A, B C & D, All paddlers welcome especially foreign imports! Contact:  Email Steve
Veurne is in the west corner of Belgium, near the coast and the French border. Full name : Westhoek Kajakclub Veurne. The club has 2 mens teams and 1 ladies team. Contact : Email Guido or Joris Duyck. Or Email the Club
Team colours - Black / Red
Active canoe polo club which is trying to arrange more tournaments, we have a number of good players and many who are improving quickly. Want to get into the national league Div 4.
About 40 odd members and we are currently looking for some new/second-hand composite boats (Revenges preferable, or Megas).
Contact: Dave Hirst
Social Polo Players who just want to have fun. Contact: Chris Walters Email
Our names are Wolfgang, Lothar, Edith, Ulrike, Till, Kasia and Dominik. We are a new first division (Bundesliga) team in Germany. 98 will be our first season in the top class. Being the youngest team in the league (average age 19) the future looks bright ahead.
Contact: Email Dominik
More details from Paul Smith

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