Badminton England is delighted to announce that we’re persevering with to actively pilot a Nationwide Badminton League (NBL) competitors.
Following the profitable working of the primary 12 months of the pilot (between December 2023 and March 2024), we at the moment are in search of to construct on the INSPIRE pillar of our technique by working a second pilot competitors in 2024-25.
First launching in October 2014, the league initially included six franchise groups earlier than increasing to seven by the point it reached its remaining 12 months in 2017. The NBL returned for a pilot season in 2023-24, trying to construct on the foundations established beforehand, however exploring a sustainable method of making partaking aggressive and fan alternatives.
With Group Skyfall profitable all three of their fixtures final season, it was an exhilarating finish to a really intently fought competitors!
Every workforce had competed both dwelling or away to their rivals, 5 occasions (Males’s & Ladies’s Singles, Males’s & Ladies’s Doubles and Combined Doubles), every performed to the perfect of 5 video games to 11 factors.
Having coasted to a snug 5-0 win over Excessive Wycombe Efficiency within the opening fixture again in December, the College of Nottingham took early benefit within the match.
However Group Skyfall edged to a 3-2 win away to Wimbledon Racquets and Health Membership of their opening conflict earlier than sealing a significant 4-1 victory at dwelling, in Milton Keynes, to their Nottinghamshire rivals in February.
The title was theirs once they simply overcame the problem of Excessive Wycombe – profitable 3-2 at dwelling to prime the desk with an unbeaten document in 2023-24.
Congratulations to all who took half within the pilot season of the NBL!
Our ambition to create extra alternatives to look at gamers compete at a world-class degree domestically stays as robust as ever.
We’re striving for the NBL to be a sustainable, commercially viable league able to growing the game’s profile and visibility with its gamers.
Chris Miller, Head of Main Occasions at Badminton England, stated:
“To discover methods to develop and showcase our sport, athletes and officers is all the time thrilling and an vital a part of our technique.
“With the continued ardour and dedication of the groups concerned, we’re in a position to take one other step ahead this coming season, offering a platform for proficient gamers to entertain and encourage their neighborhood and past.
“Badminton is a good looking and accessible sport in so some ways and to have one other alternative to see the the precision and athleticism up shut could be very particular.”
The dates for every fixture are as follows:
Fixture date | Match | Begin time |
18th November 2024 | College of Nottingham vs Wimbledon Racquets and Health Membership | 19:00 |
nineteenth December 2024 | Wimbledon Racquets and Health Membership vs Group Skyfall | 18:00 |
20th January 2025 | Group Skyfall vs Wimbledon Racquets and Health Membership | 18:00 |
third February 2025 | College of Nottingham vs Group Skyfall | 19:00 |
14th April 2025 | Wimbledon Racquets and Health Membership vs College of Nottingham | 18:00 |
twenty eighth April 2025 | Group Skyfall vs College of Nottingham | 19:00 |
Full outcomes and fixtures will be discovered right here:
https://be.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/match.aspx?id=4DAF6864-96DB-403E-926B-BD72EE357B01