The Varsity Cup tournament was founded in 2008, featuring the rugby teams of eight universities.

These are athletics, beach volleyball, association football, field hockey, netball and rugby sevens.

They were, UFS, NMMU, UCT, TUT, UP-Tuks, UWC, NWU-Pukke, Limpopo, Maties and UJ.

[10] The 2013 rugby sevens and volleyball tournaments were won by defending champions Maties and UWC respectively.

[11] The 2014 saw a four meeting athletics series, and a men's hockey tournament replacing the women's one from 2013.

[citation needed] The 2014 Varsity Football season will begin in July, and will be followed by netball, rugby sevens and beach volleyball.