LTA Youth Team Challenge
LTA Youth Team Challenge is a fun competition designed for junior tennis players. Kids compete in small teams for points over a short series of matches. Win, lose or draw, all players receive a sticker and certificate from us!
There are 2 Team Challenge formats, of which you can run one or both all-year-round, across all your age groups. These two formats are:
- LTA Youth Team Challenge: Match Week
- LTA Youth Team Challenge: Festivals
- The middle and last week of your coaching programme becomes Match Week - e.g., before half term or the end of term
- You control the format and we’ll provide resources to help
- An excellent way to keep players engaged and having fun with no additional admin
- These are bigger events that take place on the last week of term or half term
- Festivals can be run at your venue and you can invite others to take part too, if you like
- We provide dedicated resources packs including certificates, prizes and more
- Each Festival is based around a seasonal theme and we encourage organisers to introduce additional activities and games to support the event (e.g. a dress-up competition for ‘Halloween Monster Smash’, or creating flags or decorations for the ‘French Open’ and ‘US Open’ themes)
The sign-up for 2024 venue resource packs has now closed but you can still access all of the digital resources via the ‘Organiser Resources’ dropdown below. There you can download your own certificates and stickers to deliver amazing, fun team competitions throughout the whole of 2024.
The delivery periods for Team Challenge Festivals in 2024 are:
- Easter - 29 March to 14 April
- French Open - 25 May to 9 June
- TC Games - 26 July to 11 August
- US Open - 26 August to 8 Sept
- Monster Smash - 31 October
- Girl, Set, Match - All year round
We encourage venues to deliver their events during these periods in order to get maximum value from the themed resources, however venues do have some flexibility around these dates.
Please note: venues are expected to deliver a minimum of 3 out of 5 festivals throughout the year in order to ensure they receive resources the following year.
Sign up for the 2024 venue resource packs is now closed.
2024 Resource Packs
The 2024 venue resource packs build on the exciting 2023 packs, with more resources than before and a brand new theme to celebrate the Paris 2024 Olympic & Paralympic games!
- Jammed full with 6 (yes, SIX) festival themes with clear delivery periods throughout the year
- Match Week resources in every pack
- Medals, prizes, certificates, stickers and more!
- Refreshed designs for every theme
- Access to digital resource library including themed social media assets
Delivery
Packs will be delivered in February 2024 – more details to follow.
IMPORTANT
- You will only receive 1 pack per venue
- Each pack contains resources for 6 festival themes & match week
- This is the only sign-up period for 2024 resources – there will not be another opportunity to obtain resources
- Packs will be distributed on a ‘first come, first served’ basis
- Venues that received a 2023 pack and did not submit player numbers will not receive a 2024 pack
- You are required to submit player numbers in order to receive a 2025 pack
High-resolution certificates, draw sheets, posters, social media banners & more in every LTA Youth Team Challenge pack.
Please email Teamchallenge@lta.org.uk with any questions you may have regarding Team Challenge.