NBL returning for 2024-25 season

Badminton England is delighted to announce that we’re persevering with to actively pilot a Nationwide Badminton League (NBL) competitors.  

Following the profitable operating of the primary 12 months of the pilot (between December 2023 and March 2024), we are actually looking for to construct on the INSPIRE pillar of our technique by operating 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, seeking to construct on the foundations established beforehand, however exploring a sustainable approach of making participating aggressive and fan alternatives. 

With Staff Skyfall profitable all three of their fixtures final season, it was an exciting finish to a really intently fought competitors! 

Every crew had competed both residence or away to their rivals, 5 occasions (Males’s & Girls’s Singles, Males’s & Girls’s Doubles and Combined Doubles), every performed to one of the best of 5 video games to 11 factors.  

Having coasted to a cushty 5-0 win over Excessive Wycombe Efficiency within the opening fixture again in December, the College of Nottingham took early benefit within the event. 

However Staff 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 residence, 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 residence to prime the desk with an unbeaten file 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 rising 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 at all times thrilling and an essential a part of our technique.  

“With the continued ardour and dedication of the groups concerned, we’re capable of take one other step ahead this coming season, offering a platform for gifted gamers to entertain and encourage their group and past. 

“Badminton is a lovely and accessible sport in so some ways and to have one other alternative to see the the precision and athleticism up shut may be very particular.”  

The dates for every fixture are as follows: 

Full outcomes and fixtures might be discovered right here:  

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