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.
The original South Wales Premier Cricket League did not include all of South Wales' 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.List of ECB Premier Leagues
Winners Winners from 2010 YearChampions 2010 Sully Centurions 2011 Cardiff 2012 Ammanford 2013 Mumbles 2014 Cardiff 2015 Bridgend Town 2016 Newport 2017 Cardiff 2018 Newport 2019 St Fagans 2020 no competition 2021 St Fagans 2022 St Fagans 2023 Swansea 2024 St Fagans 2025 St Fagans 2026 Cardiff
Winners 1999 to 2009 YearSouth Wales Premier Cricket LeagueSouth Wales Cricket Association 1999 AbergavennyPontarddulais 2000 NewportYnysygerwn 2001 PentyrchSwansea 2002 SudbrookSwansea 2003 Sully CenturionsSwansea 2004 Sully CenturionsBriton Ferry Steel 2005 St FagansBriton Ferry Steel 2006 St FagansNeath 2007 Sully CenturionsPontarddulais 2008 Sully CenturionsAmmanford 2009 CardiffAmmanford
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 2025 2026 Abergavenny 7 9 Ammanford 7 9 1 10 8 5 8 4 7 7 6 8 8 6 5 Bridgend Town 2 4 6 3 1 4 6 9 8 5 8 4 7 4 3 Cardiff 5 1 3 9 1 2 2 1 3 3 8 7 3 4 8 1 Carmarthen Wanderers 8 Clydach 10 10 Mumbles 6 2 1 2 9 7 7 8 9 10 Neath 8 7 6 3 2 2 4 4 7 10 Newport 3 5 8 5 7 3 1 2 1 4 3 3 2 6 2 4 Panteg 10 Penarth 10 10 Pentyrch 9 Pontarddulais 2 7 7 3 6 6 8 4 6 6 9 5 6 2 3 7 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 1 1 2 Sully Centurions 1 4 5 4 Swansea 8 10 7 9 10 2 2 1 5 10 Usk 10 10 3 5 6 Ynystawe 9 9 Ynysygerwn 6 8 9 2 4 5 9 9 10 References
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 1 1 2 1 1 5 Tondu 11 4 5 8 11 Usk 5 7 ? ? 5 2 4 3 4 ReferencesClub Cricket Yearbook 2006Club Cricket Yearbook 2006Club Cricket Yearbook 2006
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
See also List of English and Welsh cricket league clubs
References
External links South Wales Premier Cricket League - SWPCL Play-Cricket site Cricket Wales