Our league always welcomes new teams where we can, and clubs can enter as many teams in as many disciplines as they like.
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Clubs organise their own matches, with half being played at a club’s home venue. Therefore new clubs will need to source courts for around 5 matches in the season (Oct-April) per team. Teams field 3 pairs for a match, and each pair plays each opposition pair – so a match consists of 9 rubbers. Each rubber is best of 3 sets to 21 points with setting, and counts for 1 League point. See the scoresheet below as an example. This tends to take approximately 2.5 hours on 2 courts (i.e. 5 court hours).
Players can be of any age, as long as they arrive on time, have a captain to organise the team, and are respectful on and off court.
For any club wanting to join us, our requirements of your club are that you*:
- Are a Badminton England registered club (with players registered in addition)
- Pay a small league fee (£5 per team per season)
- Have a named match secretary(s) who can organise the season’s matches in August, who can attend the annual fixtures meeting where most of these are set.
- Ensure a representative of the club is able to attend the AGM in July.
- Give us a commitment to ensuring 6 players can play in each match and that no more than 2 matches are going to be missed or conceded.
- Give us assurances that an on-the-day captain will be assigned for each match, to record and submit scores, ensure smooth running of games, etc.
- Commit to teams that are joining/not joining our league by 1st August.
New teams typically join in the bottom division.
Please get in touch with the committee at southcambsbadleague@gmail.com if you have any further questions!