SBCL Premier Cup
Information about the Senior British Clubs League Premier Cup
The Senior British Clubs League Premier Division Cup* was first held in the 2022/23 season.
It is a knockout competition held at the end of the regular league season and gives teams the chance to go for a ‘league and cup double’.
All Premier Division clubs compete. Clubs are only allowed to enter one team and seeding will be based on the regular season.
At this time it was known as the SBL Premier Cup.
The 2023/24 competition was hosted on the weekend of June 1-2 2024 by North Ayrshire TTC at Inverclyde National Sports Centre.
The clubs
From: Harlow
Shirt colour: Blue
Squad
Josh Bennett
Chris Doran
Alexis Douin
From: Glasgow
Shirt colour: Red/Blue/Black
Squad
Danny Bajwa
Victor Guang Shi
Martin Perry
Yaser Razouk
From: Saltcoats
Shirt colour: Blue/Black
Squad
Viktor Gorman
Nathan Hogg
Martin Johnson
Chris Main
From: Middlesbrough
Shirt colour: Red/Blue
Squad
Graeme Barella
Abraham Sellado
Adam Webster
From: Brighton
Shirt colour: Blue
Squad
Will Bayley MBE
Joseph Langham-Ferreira
Ihor Zavadskyi
From: Bermondsey, London
Shirt colour: Black/Grey
Squad
Josh Bruce
Larry Trumpauskas
Lorestas Trumpauskas
Shaquille Webb Dixon
From: Belfast
Shirt colour: Red/Black
Squad
Adam Faulkner
Alex Lo
Peadar Sheridan
From: Nottingham
Shirt colour: Blue
Squad
Owen Brown
Howard Onweng
Joe Sawyer
Officials
Referee: Roy Claxton (Scotland)
Umpires: Charlie Brown, Sinclair Houston, Alex Hughes, Catherine O’Neil,
Draw
Quarter-finals
1. Brighton (S1) vs North Ayrshire (S5)
2. BATTS (S3) vs Fusion (S6)
3. Ormeau (S4) vs Drumchapel (S8)
4. Ormesby (S2) vs Nottingham (S7)
Schedule
Saturday
Session 1: Practice from 9am, matches from 10am (4 tables)
Session 2: Practice from 1pm, matches from 2.30pm (4 tables)
Sunday
Session 1: Practice from 9am, matches from 10am (3 tables)
Session 2: Practice from noon, match at 1.30pm (1 table)
Floor plan
Competition format
The teams are seeded according to their finishing position and the event begins with the quarter-finals.
The event is a progressive knockout format – so the quarter-final winners go through to the semi-finals, while the losing teams go on to compete for positions 5 to 8.
After the semi-finals, the losers play off for third and fourth positions and the winners go into the final to determine who lifts the trophy. Once all the play-offs are complete, a final finishing order from 1 to 8 is known.
In each team match, there are up to seven individual matches – six singles and one doubles – the doubles match is the third one to be played. The matches will be played to a result – ie the first team to win four matches.
Each team consists of four players, three of whom will compete in the singles. Any two players can play in the doubles.
The trophy
The SBCL Premier Cup was donated by Cliff Carder from BATTS.
NB: British Clubs Leagues were formerly known as the British League and some documentation may still reflect this name but will be updated in due course.
