SBL Premier Cup
Information about the Senior British League Premier Cup
The Senior British League Premier Division Cup inaugural event was 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 and Championship clubs are invited in finishing order to make up a total of eight clubs. Clubs are only be allowed to enter one team and seeding will be based on the regular season.
The 2022/23 competition was held on the weekend of June 3-4 at BATTS Table Tennis Club in Harlow.
The clubs
From: Harlow
Shirt colour: Blue
Squad
Josh Bennett
Ralph Pattison
Shayan Siraj
From: Glasgow
Shirt colour: Red/Blue/Black/Yellow
Squad
Danny Bajwa
Garry Dodd
Victor Guang Shi
Baoman Wan
From: Saltcoats
Shirt colour: Blue/Black
Squad
Viktor Gorman
Martin Johnson
Chris Main
Jordan McGinlay (NPC)
From: Middlesbrough
Shirt colour: Red
Squad
Graeme Barella (c)
Jake Haygarth
Tom Rayner
From: Brighton
Shirt colour: Blue
Squad
Will Bayley MBE
Jordan Wykes
Ihor Zavadskyi
From: Bermondsey, London
Shirt colour: Grey
Squad
Josh Bruce
Robert Pelc
Lorestas Trumpauskas
Shaquille Webb Dixon
From: Belfast
Shirt colour: Red/Black
Squad
Conor Nugent
Mathew Ware
Zak Wilson
From: Barnet, London
Shirt colour: Black/Red/Blue
Squad
Toby Ellis
Connor Green
James Hamblett
Joseph Hunter
Mateusz Mikosz
Officials
Referee: Kim Mudge-Johnson
Umpires: Takako Hall, Mary Nicholls, James Pettigrew, Philip Ware
Draw
Quarter-finals
Q1: Ormeau v Brighton
Q2: Drumchapel v North Ayrshire
Q3: Urban v BATTS
Q4: Ormesby v Fusion
Schedule
Saturday
Session 1 (12.30pm-3pm)
Table 1: Quarter-final 1
Table 2: Quarter-final 2
Table 3: Quarter-final 3
Session 2 (3.30pm-6pm)
Table 1: Quarter-final 4
Table 2: Winner QF1 v QF2
Table 3: Loser QF1 v QF2
Session 3 (6.30pm-9pm)
Table 1: Winner QF3 v QF4
Table 2: Loser QF3 v QF4
Sunday
Session 1 (9am-11.30am)
Table 1: 3rd-4th play-off
Table 2: 5th-6th play-off
Table 3: 7th-8th play-off
Session 2 (12.30pm-3pm)
Table 1: Final
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
Cliff Carder from BATTS and Neil Rogers from Table Tennis England discuss Cliff’s donation of the trophy for the new SBL Premier Cup.
