MBA Sailing League – The MBA Global Sailing League

Bocconi are 2025 MBA Sailing League Champions

28 September 2025

Global MBA Trophy 2025 © Nikos Alevromytis

SDA Bocconi’s sailing teams have ended the 2025 season as champions of the MBA Sailing League. Following their victory in Cascais, Portugal, the crew from the Milan- based business school crowned a season where they’ve consistently finished in the top 4 of regattas, scoring 2nd in Greece and Malta and first in Portugal. Bocconi were the defending 2024 champions and retain the MBA Sailing league trophy, which will be presented to them at the Global MBA Trophy regatta in Piraeus in April 2026.

Bocconi stay top after RSM regatta

11 September 2025

SDA Bocconi regained their position at the top of the 2025 MBA Sailing League table after the RSM regatta in Malta with their second place, their lead over second place POLIMI GSoM, who placed 5th in Malta, opening up to 2 points. IE in third place are just 1 point behind POLIMI. Winners in Malta, INSEAD, climb to 6th=, while LBS drop to 5th.

The season will be decided next week in Cascais, Portugal at the IE regatta.

Tight at the top of the league

20 May 2025

POLIMI GSoM sit at the top of the MBA Sailing League after two regattas, but with only 4 points separating first and fifth place, everything is still to play for in 2025.

The POLIMI team have 5 points scoring 3rd at the Global MBA Trophy in Greece and 2nd in the POLIMI regatta in Sardinia. Just behind are SDA Bocconi on 6 points, with a 2nd and a 4th, then LBS with 7 points, IE with 8 and Imperial with 9 points.

Next up is the RSM regatta in Malta in July.

School	LBS GMT, Piraeus	POLIMI GSoM Sardinia	TOTAL	Position	Number of Regattas	change
POLIMI GSoM	3	2	5	1	2	+2
SDA Bocconi	2	4	6	2	2	=
LBS	4	3	7	3	2	+1
IE	7	1	8	4	2	+2
Imperial	1	8	9	5	1	-4
WHU/Kellogg	5	8	13	6	1	-1
Oxford	9	6	15	7	2	+1
RSM	8	8	16	8	1	-1
Insead	10	8	18	9	1	=
Tuck	11	8	19	10	1	=

POLIMI GSoM are the 2023 MBA Sailing League Champions

3 November 2023

Global MBA Trophy 2023 ©Nikos Alevromytis

The final scores are in, and the league table has been calculated… POLIMI GSoM win the 2023 MBA Sailing League by a single point, with IE in second place and LBS in third. Reichman come in fourth, just 4 points behind POLIMI.

POLIMI win the Global MBA Trophy regatta in Pireaus in April, came second at their own regatta in Garda, then missed the ABC regatta in Kiel and the IE regatta in Lanzarote, but held out to win the league.

The MBA Sailing League trophy will be presented at the Global MBA Trophy prizegiving in April 2024.

POLIMI last won the league in 2018. The league has been competed for since 2011.

POLIMI lead the MBA Sailing League 2023

18 May 2023

POLIMI GSoM are the 2023 season’s first leaders after their win at the GLobal MBA Trophy in Pireaus. The table matches that of the LBS- hosted Greek regatta.

London Business School meanwhile top the 12 – month rankings, replacing a 4th place in 2022 with a 6th this year.

POLIMI win their 4th Global MBA Trophy

8 May 2023

Ugo Alvazzi del Frate and his team from Polimi Graduate School of Management won a close contest at the Global MBA Trophy regatta in Piraeus, Greece on 21- 22 April. The Italian business school team won by one point over 6 races, winning the last three races to edge out newcomers Reichman business school from Israel.

The regatta was raced hard on Friday 21st, with the race committee getting 4 races away, anticipating lighter airs on the Saturday. 11 Platu 25s raced windward- leeward courses on the bay of Faliron, hosted by the Yacht club of Greece from their base in Microlimano harbour.

The MBA Sailing 2023 Racing Calendar

31 March 2023

We’re still waiting for official announcements for the second half of the year’s events, but this is how things are looking as it stands.

(14 April The IESE Spring Games, Barcelona Organised by IESE – does not qualify for the MBA Sailing League)
20 – 23 April 2023: The Global MBA Trophy, Piraeus, Greece. Organised by LBS.
(12 – 14 May 2023: Lisbon MBA Regatta, Lisbon, Portugal. Organised by The Yacht Week – does not qualify for the MBA Sailing League)
18 -21 May 2023: POLIMI Regatta, Lake Garda, Italy. Organised by POLIMI GSoM.
TBC June/July 2023: The RSM Regatta, Porto, Portugal. Organised by RSM
25 -27 August 2023: The Alumni Business Cup, Kiel Germany. Organised by WHU
TBC Septembe~~r 2023: The MBAs Cup, TBC, Italy. Organised by SDA Bocconi.~~
12- 15 October 2023: The Halloween Regatta, Lanzarote. Organised by IE

LBS are 2022 MBA SAiling League Champions

13 November 2022

London Business School’s 3rd place at the IE Halloween regatta was enough to clinch the title of MBA Sailing League Champions for 2022. The only school to take part in all four regattas of 2022, London won the POLIMI regatta in Capri and the RSM regatta in Porto, coming 4th in the LBS Global MBA Trophy in Athens.

MIP/POLIMI’s win in Athens and 3rd place in Capri helped them to second place, while Imperial’s second place in Lanzarote sees them leapfrog Tuck into third. Tuck’s second in Athens means they take 4th place and IE’s win in Lanzarote means they round out the top 5.

RSM announces the 2022 Regatta

9 February 2022

The Rotterdam School of Business sailing club has announced the 12th edition of its annual regatta in Porto, Portugal.

The racing takes place on 1st and 2nd July 2022.

The programme will be:

Friday 22nd oThursday, June 30th, Fly in and Boat Check in with skippers briefing
Friday, July 1st, First day of races
Saturday, July 2nd, Second day of races and boat check out
Sunday, July 3rd Hotel Check Out and Fly out

Racing will use Platu 25 sport boats

Check out the RSM sailing club website here.

IESE announce dates for 2022 Spring Games

3 February 2022

IESE Business School in Barcelona have announced that the 2022 Spring Games will take place on 22- 24 April.

The sailing regatta is planned for Friday 22nd and Saturday 23rd, with boats and host venue/sailing club to be announced. Results from the regatta count for the MBAsailing league.

The programme will be:

Friday 22nd of April 2022 – Training and 1st day of regatta
Saturday 23rd of April 2022 – Regatta 9:00 Open door and free training11:00 –> 15:00 Regattas.

The format will be windward leeward races.

The sailing is just one sport in a multi- sport event.

Sign- up/ more info from iesesailingclub@gmail.com