Following the SWVA AGM at the weekend, entries are now open for next season, see attached form and entry rules. These can also be found on the SWVA website at https://www.swva.org.uk/competitions. The entry fees and deposits are the same as last year.
Key dates are as follows:
- Closing date for entries – 11th July 2025
- Draft fixtures – second week in August – note that this date may be dependent on when the NVL fixture dates become available
- Ratification of fixtures 2 weeks later (hopefully by 26th August)
- Season start – beginning of October
Please make sure that your nominated contact is available during the August period to ensure that court bookings are confirmed and fixtures ratified.
We are continuing the focus this year on match officiating, as I am still getting notified about issues happening on match days and observations being reported of poor standards. I would like to remind all teams that preferably the people officiating for you should be qualified.
We have always had the option to enforce the requirement for all referees to be qualified and registered and please also note Rule 14 e). This season, Nacho is planning to run further webinars, which are free to attend and all teams are strongly encouraged to ensure that they have representation from their team at these webinars.
Once again teams must nominate a minimum of 4 players who are already competent to referee the standard of play in their division and ensure that those people take responsibility for the teams officiating on match days. We will be actively monitoring refereeing again this season as the discussion about enforcing teams to provide qualified referees is still ongoing, so we are asking all teams to please pay more attention to their officiating duties!
Please pass this on to anyone else that you think may be interested in joining the league this year.
If you know that you will not be entering I would also appreciate it if you could let me know and then I can cross you off the list and stop pestering you 😊
The SW Veteran’s Tournament has been booked into Riverside Leisure Centre in Exeter on Sunday 30th November 2025, more information and the entry process will be out shortly.
Any questions, please get in touch.
Regards, Rachel
