The South Wales Premier Cricket League, is the top level of competition for recreational

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. The league was founded in 1999 as the South East Wales League, being renamed following its accreditation as an ECB

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in 2001. The original South Wales Premier Cricket League did not include all of South Wales's leading clubs. Its clubs came from

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and the traditional county of

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, while clubs from further west played in the

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, 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

References

External links

South Wales Premier Cricket League
- SWPCL Play-Cricket site
Cricket Wales
Welsh domestic cricket competitions ECB Premier Leagues {{cricket-competition-stub