The National Badminton League
The National Badminton League
Following the recent release our 2023-2033 strategy (‘Badminton – A Sport For Everyone’), Badminton England is actively piloting a National Badminton League competition which will run between December 2023 and March 2024 and seeks to build on the INSPIRE pillar.
First launching in October 2014, it initially included six franchise teams before expanding to seven by the time it reached its final year in 2017. Now the National Badminton League is back for a pilot season in 2023-24, looking to build on the foundations established previously, but exploring a sustainable way of creating engaging competitive and fan opportunities.
Our four teams for this pilot season are:
Wycombe Performance
Team Skyfall (powered by MKBA and HBC)
University of Nottingham
Wimbledon Racquets & Fitness Club
Each team will compete either home or away to their rivals, five events (Men’s & Women’s Singles, Men’s & Women’s Doubles and Mixed Doubles), each played to the best of 5 games to 11 points. At the end of the season, the top team will be crowned the National Badminton League 2024 winner.
As part of Badminton England’s new ten-year strategy was an ambition to create more opportunities to watch players play live world-class badminton domestically to inspire and engage our nation in badminton. And incorporated into that objective was the aim to relaunch the National Badminton League as a sustainable, commercially viable league capable of increasing the sport’s profile and visibility with its players.
So keep track of this pilot season’s results and fixtures below
Monday 4 December – University of Nottingham vs Wycombe Performance
Tuesday 2 January – Wycombe Performance vs Wimbledon Racquets & Fitness Club
Monday 29 January – Wimbledon Racquets & Fitness Club vs Team Skyfall (powered by MKBA and HBC)
Tuesday 20 February – Team Skyfall (powered by MKBA and HBC) vs University of Nottingham
Monday 18 March – Team Skyfall (powered by MKBA and HBC) vs Wycombe Performance
Date TBC – University of Nottingham vs Wimbledon Racquets & Fitness Club
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