South Wales Premier Cricket League

Logo of the SWALEC Premier Cricket League

The South Wales Premier Cricket League, also known as the SWALEC Premier Cricket League for sponsorship reasons, is the top level of competition for recreational club cricket 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 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 and the traditional county of Monmouthshire, while clubs from further west played in the South Wales Cricket Association, 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.[1]

The teams competing in Division One for 2018 are: Ammanford, Bridgend Town, Cardiff, Mumbles, Neath, Newport, Pontarddulais, Port Talbot Town, St Fagans, and Ynysygerwn.

Winners

Winners 1999 to 2009

YearSouth Wales Premier Cricket LeagueSouth Wales Cricket Association
1999AbergavennyPontarddulais
2000NewportYnysygerwn
2001PentyrchSwansea
2002SudbrookSwansea
2003Sully CenturionsSwansea
2004Sully CenturionsBriton Ferry Steel
2005St FagansBriton Ferry Steel
2006St FagansNeath
2007Sully CenturionsPontarddulais
2008Sully CenturionsAmmanford
2009CardiffAmmanford

Winners from 2010

YearChampions
2010Sully Centurions
2011Cardiff
2012Ammanford
2013Mumbles
2014Cardiff
2015Bridgend Town
2016Newport
2017Cardiff

Performance by season from 2001

South Wales Premier Cricket League 2001 to 2009

Key
Gold Champions
Red Relegated
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Abergavenny 6 9 ? 9 12 9
Blackwood Town 12
Bridgend Town 12
Cardiff 2 2 ? ? 4 3 7 7 1
Chepstow 9 ? 12 9 12
Croesyceiliog 10 6 9 10
Miskin Manor 10 11
Newport 4 6 ? ? 3 6 2 5 2
Panteg 10 ? 8 5 8 11
Penarth 8 ? ? 6 11 10 8
Pentyrch 1 3 ? ? 10 7 9 2 7
Pontypridd 8 5 ? ? 12
St Fagans 7 4 ? ? 1 1 3 4 3
Sudbrook 3 1 ? ? 7 8 10 6 6
Sully Centurions 1 1 1 2 1 1 5
Tondu 11 4 5 8 11
Usk 5 7 ? ? 5 2 4 3 4
[2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
^1 — Sully Centurions were relegated for disciplinary reasons after the 2005 season

South Wales Cricket Association 2001 to 2009

Key
Gold Champions
Red Relegated
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Ammanford 6 2 10 7 1 1
Briton Ferry Steel 3 9 1 1 6 8 7 9
Carmarthen Wanderers 7
Cowbridge 8 10
Dafen Welfare 10 9 9
Gowerton 2 2 4 8 7 4 2 9
Llanelli 9 7 10 10
Llangennech 8 10
Maesteg Celtic 8 5 9
Mumbles 5 10 6
Neath 5 5 8 3 2 1 4 6 8
Pontardawe 6 10
Pontarddulais 4 7 7 4 9 1 5 3
Port Talbot Town 6 8 3 4 5
Skewen 10
Swansea 1 1 1 2 4 2 5 2 4
Ynysygerwn 7 4 3 6 5 3 6 3 2
Ynystawe 8 3 6 5 3 7 9
[9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17]

South Wales Premier Cricket League from 2010

Key
Gold Champions
Red Relegated
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Ammanford 7 9 1 10 8 5 8 x
Bridgend Town 2 4 6 3 1 4 6 x
Cardiff 5 1 3 9 1 2 2 1 x
Mumbles 6 2 1 2 9 7 7 x
Neath 8 7 6 3 x
Newport 3 5 8 5 7 3 1 2 x
Panteg 10
Penarth 10
Pontarddulais 2 7 7 3 6 6 8 4 x
Port Talbot Town 4 3 6 8 5 4 3 5 x
St Fagans 9 10 x
Sully Centurions 1 1 4 5 4
Swansea 8 10 7 9 10
Usk 10 10
Ynysygerwn 6 8 9 2 4 5 9 9 x
[18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25]
^1 — Sully Centurions resigned from the Premier League after the 2013 season and dropped down to the Glamorgan and Monmouthshire Cricket League

See also

References

  1. ↑ List of ECB Premier Leagues Archived 2008-10-15 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ↑ Club Cricket Yearbook 2006
  3. ↑ Club Cricket Yearbook 2006
  4. ↑ Club Cricket Yearbook 2006
  5. ↑ "Premier Division 1st XI - 2006".
  6. ↑ "Premier Division 1st XI - 2007".
  7. ↑ "Premier Division 1st XI - 2008".
  8. ↑ "Premier Division 1st XI - 2009".
  9. ↑ "First XI League Tables - Season 2001".
  10. ↑ "First XI League Tables - Season 2002".
  11. ↑ "First XI League Tables - Season 2003".
  12. ↑ "First XI League Tables - Season 2004".
  13. ↑ "First XI League Tables - Season 2005".
  14. ↑ "First XI League Tables - Season 2006".
  15. ↑ "First XI League Tables - Season 2007".
  16. ↑ "First XI League Tables - Season 2008".
  17. ↑ "First XI League Tables - Season 2009".
  18. ↑ "Premier Division One 1st XI - 2010".
  19. ↑ "Premier Division One 1st XI - 2011".
  20. ↑ "Premier Division One 1st XI - 2012".
  21. ↑ "Premier Division One 1st XI - 2013".
  22. ↑ "Premier Division One 1st XI - 2014".
  23. ↑ "Premier Division One 1st XI - 2015".
  24. ↑ "Premier Division One 1st XI - 2016".
  25. ↑ "Premier Division One 1st XI - 2017".
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