St Albans Croquet Club

22/03/2026

The start of the season is rapidly approaching. We're running our normal introductory course if anyone would like to learn. We're also running our annual Charity One-Ball competition in aid of Save The Children. Details are on the website https://www.stalbanscroquet.co.uk/ or DM us if you want to find out more

29/07/2025

We won our match against Wrest Park 3-1. That puts us top of the league with one game left to play. A win or a draw will secure the trophy!

28/04/2025

A pitch invasion at our match with Enfield Croquet Club today. Overall the match was a 3-3 draw. Many thanks to Enfield for their hospitality.

09/06/2024

Congratulations to Roger, Brian, Mike and Derek who beat Surbiton Croquet Club in the Longman Cup 4-3. Report is at https://www.stalbanscroquet.co.uk/longmansurbiton. Many thanks to Surbiton Croquet Club for their hospitality.

26/05/2024

Congratulations to Stephen & David for winning in the one day doubles competition, and to the team for drawing with Enfield Croquet Club in the Beds & Herts League. For more details follow the links at https://www.stalbanscroquet.co.uk/

14/05/2024

We appeared in the Time Online Sport Unseen gallery today! The link to the page (if you've got a Times subscription) is https://www.thetimes.co.uk/sport/photography/article/drenching-erik-ten-hag-saying-goodbye-jurgen-klopp-unseen-mvw5bzm55 or you can see a copy of the croquet bit (it's mainly a football gallery) via our website https://www.stalbanscroquet.co.uk/news

27/04/2024

Congratulations to Heather, Stephen, Brian and Mike who won our first match of the season against Watford Croquet Club 5-1. You can see the report at https://www.stalbanscroquet.co.uk/inter-club-matches-2024

15/10/2023

Congratulations to Heather who received a CA diploma. See https://www.croquet.org.uk/?p=tournament/honours/caDiplomas/2023 for details.

Alex joined the club in 2014 and quickly got to grips with croquet, his AC handicap rapidly improving to minus a half. He has regularly played in AC (and occasionally GC) matches at various levels and captained the Mary Rose team for some years.

12/09/2023

Congratulations to Mike, Stephen Mills, David & Stuart Stafford who won this year's club trophies.

If the players handicaps are different then the first score is the net score after advantage (i.e. the winner will have a score of 7 hoops).  The second number (on the top row) is the hoop difference.  The second row shows the advantage (i.e the starting score as the game begins) and the actual nu...

10/09/2023

28/08/2023

Congratulations to Heather, Chris, Roger and Mike who beat Northampton 5-1 in our final match of the season. Report is on the website ( https://www.stalbanscroquet.co.uk/ and click the relevant link in the latest news bit). We finished a very creditable 2nd overall in the league https://angliacroquet.uk/2023/ac_beds_herts_league.php