Obedience competitions, involved at Crufts since the 1950s, highlight the impressive teamwork between dogs and handlers. Dogs perform tasks like heeling, retrieving, and staying with precision.
Head over to the Obedience ring located in Hall 5 of the NEC to discover more.
Crufts 2025 Obedience
There are three different competitions that take place over the course of the event:
- Inter-regional rally competition followed by the obreedience competition
- Inter-regional obedience competition
- Obedience championships for dogs and obedience championships for bitches
If you are a visitor going to watch obedience for the first time, you may want to look at our new to obedience pages, which explain the tests, marking, rules and the different levels of competition for obedience.
Find out more about obedience on The Kennel Club website.
Results from 2024
Results from Crufts 2024
| Position | Team |
|---|---|
| 1st | NORTHERN |
| 2nd | WALES |
| 3rd | MIDLANDS |
| 4th | SCOTLAND |
| =5th | NORTHERN IRELAND |
| =5th | SOUTH & SOUTH WEST |
| 7th | SOUTH EAST & EAST ANGLIA |
Crufts 2024 Obedience winner
Lennie, a Border Collie, and his owner Lorna Hilton from Brighton, East Sussex, took home the top obedience prize for dogs at Crufts on Saturday 9 March, after winning the Obedience Championship (dog) final.
If you have any queries, please email obedience@thekennelclub.org.uk.