South Wales Premier Cricket League

The South Wales Premier Cricket League, 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.

South Wales Premier Cricket League
Countries Wales
AdministratorCricket Wales
FormatLimited Overs
First edition1999 (Founded)
2001 (ECB Premier League)
Tournament formatLeague
Number of teams10 (Premier Division One 1st XI)
Current championSwansea CC
Most successfulSully Centurions CC, St Fagans CC (5)
Websitehttps://swpcl.play-cricket.com/

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]

Winners

Winners from 2010

YearChampions
2010Sully Centurions
2011Cardiff
2012Ammanford
2013Mumbles
2014Cardiff
2015Bridgend Town
2016Newport
2017Cardiff
2018Newport
2019St Fagans
2020no competition
2021St Fagans
2022St Fagans
2023Swansea

    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

    Performance by season from 2001

    South Wales Premier Cricket League from 2010

    Key
    Gold Champions
    Blue Left League
    Red Relegated
    South Wales Premier Cricket League from 2010
    Club 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023 2024
    Ammanford 7 9 1 10 8 5 8 4 7 7 6 8
    Bridgend Town 2 4 6 3 1 4 6 9 8 5 8 4
    Cardiff 5 1 3 9 1 2 2 1 3 3 8 7 3
    Clydach 10 10
    Mumbles 6 2 1 2 9 7 7 8 9 10
    Neath 8 7 6 3 2 2 4 4 7
    Newport 3 5 8 5 7 3 1 2 1 4 3 3 2
    Panteg 10
    Penarth 10
    Pentyrch
    Pontarddulais 2 7 7 3 6 6 8 4 6 6 9 5 6
    Port Talbot Town 4 3 6 8 5 4 3 5 7 5 6 9 10
    St Fagans 9 10 5 1 1 1 5
    Sully Centurions [lower-alpha 1] 1 4 5 4
    Swansea 8 10 7 9 10 2 2 1
    Usk 10 10
    Ynystawe 9
    Ynysygerwn 6 8 9 2 4 5 9 9 10
    References [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]
    1. Sully Centurions resigned from the Premier League after the 2013 season and moved to the Glamorgan and Monmouthshire Cricket League.

    South Wales Premier Cricket League 2001 to 2009

    Key
    Gold Champions
    Red Relegated
    South Wales Premier Cricket League 2001 to 2009
    Club 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  ? 8 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 9 10 7 9 2 7
    Pontypridd 8 5 10 12
    St Fagans 7 4  ?  ? 1 1 3 4 3
    Sudbrook 3 1  ?  ? 7 8 10 6 6
    Sully Centurions [lower-alpha 1] 1 1 2 1 1 5
    Tondu 11 4 5 8 11
    Usk 5 7  ?  ? 5 2 4 3 4
    References [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23]
    1. Sully Centurions were relegated for disciplinary reasons after the 2005 season.

    South Wales Cricket Association 2001 to 2009

    Key
    Gold Champions
    Red Relegated
    South Wales Cricket Association 2001 to 2009
    Club 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
    Ynystawe 8 3 6 5 3 7 9
    Ynysygerwn 7 4 3 6 5 3 6 3 2
    References [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] [32]

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