League Merger Update 23rd October 2024
The Surrey Cricket League, Surrey County League and Surrey Championship recently held EGM/SGMs in order to vote on motions to dissolve their current leagues in favour of creating a new league. These motions were all passed which means the Surrey Cricket Championship will be created, with its inaugural season in 2025.
As a result we have opened the window for new clubs to apply to join this new league. You will find the following draft documents that will provide some of the key information you might require in order to make an informed decision about applying to join the new league and this includes:
- Summary of Playing Conditions for Tiers 1-4 (please note there are two sets of Tier 2 Playing Conditions which have been developed following feedback from the club network. One set of playing conditions includes retaining timed cricket and vote will be taken at the inaugural AGM where clubs can decide on which playing conditions to use in 2025)
- Guide for Promotion and Relegation
- Facilities and Grounds Guidelines
If your club would like to apply to join the new league please complete the following application form no later than Friday 8th November (and ideally by the end of October if you are currently playing in another Surrey league):
If you have any specific questions or queries regarding the possibility of joining the new structure please contact Simon Hards on shards@surreycricket.com in the first instance.
League Merger Update 23rd September 2024
An online Q&A session, open to all, was hosted by SCF. Click below to watch this session back on YouTube.
League Merger Update July 2024
Thank you to all who completed the League Merger Player Survey. The results have been reviewed, and a breakdown of the results can be found below.
League Merger Update 13th May 2024
As the project to merge the Surrey Championship, Surrey County League and Surrey Cricket League gathers pace we are excited to share an update on the progress that has been made over the recent months following the consultation events before Christmas. This includes:
- An updated prospectus which includes the proposed 2025 divisional structure along with other relevant updates.
- A player survey which seeks to gather insight from players playing in the Surrey Championship, Surrey County League, and Surrey Cricket League only at this stage, regarding the playing conditions at each level along with a view on the planned merger overall. You can access and complete the survey (which closes on the 31st May) here.
League Merger Update – May 2024
Following the winter consultation the senior leagues merger steering group made a commitment to ensure that clubs knew what they were playing for in 2024 ahead of the start of the 2025 season in what will be the Surrey Cricket Championship if all goes to plan.
This structure has now been finalised and can be accessed at the bottom of the page . Please note the following key points relating to the structure:
- Every team (within the Surrey Championship, Surrey County League, and Surrey Cricket League) is playing for something in terms of the move into the Surrey Cricket Championship in 2025 whether that be moving up a division or remaining in a current corresponding division within the new structure.
- Promotion and relegation will be applied to the exiting league tables on 30th Sep 2024; with the new tables as of 1st Oct 2024 used to generate the new unified league structure, to be ratified at the inaugural Surrey Cricket Championship AGM.
- The gaps in the structure are there indicatively based on the expressions of interest that have been received from teams/clubs in other leagues. Should these teams not enter the new structure teams would simply move up accordingly where necessary.
- The structure is subject to small changes dependent on the final entries which will not be known until the Autumn, but we will seek to minimise this as far as reasonably possible.
Please share this information with your players over the coming weeks to ensure that everyone knows what is at stake in 2024.
We will soon be releasing a new electronic prospectus document that includes updates on various elements of the merger plans and importantly includes a player survey for players playing in the Surrey Championship, the Surrey County League and the Surrey Cricket League seeking final feedback on the playing conditions and plans for the merger. We plan for the survey to be open for two weeks coinciding with the start of the Surrey Championship and Surrey County League season.
League Merger Background
Working with the Surrey County League, AJ Sport Surrey Championship and the Surrey Cricket League we hosted 4 face to face events along with an online event on the 13th November.
The consultation events were open to players and club committee members from clubs playing in ALL leagues across Surrey and we welcomed around 160 people across the 5 events. The dates for the events were:
The recording of the online consultation session can be found below and a copy of the presentation, the prospectus and the player survey data set which has informed the emerging thinking around playing conditions can be found at the bottom of this page:
The recording of the online consultation session can be found below and a copy of the presentation, the prospectus and the player survey data set which has informed the emerging thinking around playing conditions can be found at the bottom of this page:
We have now published a prospectus document which provides some background on the project’s progress to date along with some emerging thinking around what a new league structure could look like.
We will be hoping that this document provokes some thinking so you can come to the consultation events with any questions and feedback you might have about the progress made to date.
