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2025-26 Season
Information in respect of Fixtures and Question Setters has already been emailed to team captains.
This season the League fixtures will commence on Monday, 29 September 2025 and the last divisional game will be on 30 March 2026. As usual, there will be breaks over the Christmas and New Year period and next year, Easter Monday falls on 6th April 2026.
27 teams registered for the forthcoming season, and in order to keep bye weeks to a minimum, there will be 3 x 9-team divisions (2 x Bye weeks). The games will be played over an 18 week season.
To even numbers out over the Divisions, 2 teams from Divisions 2 and 3 will be promoted, 1 team will go down from Division 1 to 2 and 2 teams will go down from Division 2 to 3.
Cup Competions
The Pool Weeks will be played over 5 weeks starting on Monday, 2 February 2026 and ending on Monday, 2 March 2026. This continues the trial from last season, which is an attempt to give more notice to early pool week setters.
The Committee decided that 15 teams would contest the Dennis Wigham and 12 teams the Tony Clare.
All Division 1 and the top 6 teams in Division 2 will contest the Dennis Wigham: all Division 3 and the remaining 3 teams in Division 2, the Tony Clare. The Division 2 table split will be determined following its update after Week 9 results are taken into account.
There will be 3 x 5-team pools (1 Bye Week) in the Dennis Wigham and 2 x 6-team pools (No Bye Weeks) in the Tony Clare. Teams will be allotted their Pools using 2 random lists (one for each Competition) generated on 1st August 2025. The lists will be chosen at the next Committee Meeting, on 15th October 2025.
In the Dennis Wigham, the top 2 teams in each pool and the 2 x 3rd placed teams with the best records within their competition will progress to the Quarter Finals. In the Tony Clare, the top four teams in the 2 Pools will progress to the Quarter Finals. The draws for the Quarter Finals and beyond have been made by the grand children of the Administrator.
Cup Competitions fixures etc. will be made available as soon as possible.
Quarter Finals - 13 April 2026; Semi-Finals – 20 April 2026; Finals – 27 April 2026.
Early Question Setters
Week 1 - Boot & Shoe B
Week 2 - Cross Keys Slyne
Week 3 - George & Dragon B
Week 4 - Heysham CC A
Week 5 - Merchants