The South Wales Premier Cricket League, is the top level of competition for recreational
club cricket
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in
South Wales. The league was founded in 1999 as the South East Wales League, being renamed following its accreditation as an
ECB Premier League
The Premier League (legal name: The Football Association Premier League Limited) is the highest level of the men's English football league system. Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the English Fo ...
in 2001.
The original South Wales Premier Cricket League did not include all of South Wales's leading clubs. Its clubs came from
South Glamorgan
, Government= South Glamorgan County Council
, Status= Non-metropolitan county (1974–1996) Preserved county (1996–)
, Start= 1974
, End= 1996
, Arms=
, HQ= ...
and the traditional county of
Monmouthshire, while clubs from further west played in the
South Wales Cricket Association
South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both east and west.
Etymology
The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic ''*sunþaz ...
, a league which has been in existence since 1926. That league too sought ECB Premier League status, but the ECB was not willing to accredit two Premier Leagues in South Wales.
In 2010, the South Wales Premier Cricket League was reorganised. The top five clubs in the 2009 season, together with the top five clubs in the South Wales Cricket Association in 2009, formed a new Premier Division. The original league became a feeder to it and was renamed as the Glamorgan and Monmouthshire Cricket League, and in 2016 it was renamed again as the South East Wales Cricket League. The South Wales Cricket Association continued to operate, and became the other feeder to the South Wales Premier Cricket League. Before the 2015 season, the South Wales Premier Cricket League formed a Division Two by taking five further clubs from each of the two feeder leagues.
List of ECB Premier Leagues
Winners
Winners from 2010
Winners 1999 to 2009
Performance by season from 2001
South Wales Premier Cricket League from 2010
South Wales Premier Cricket League 2001 to 2009
South Wales Cricket Association 2001 to 2009
See also
* List of English and Welsh cricket league clubs
This is a list of English and Welsh cricket leagues recognised and supported by the England and Wales Cricket Board as ECB Premier Leagues, and beneath the League titles are the cricket clubs that are in their top divisions in the 2018 English cr ...
References
External links
South Wales Premier Cricket League
- SWPCL Play-Cricket site
Cricket Wales
Welsh domestic cricket competitions
ECB Premier Leagues
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