Welcome to the England Pickleball League

Uniting Clubs. Elevating Play. Discovering England’s Best.

The England Pickleball League brings together club teams from across the country to compete in a unified, high-quality league system designed to showcase the best of English pickleball. The League’s goals are to foster competitive play, crown England’s top club team in 2026, and ensure consistent rules and standards across all local leagues that make up the EPL.

All participants are expected to adhere to the Pickleball England Code of Conduct and uphold our core values of fairness, respect, and integrity. While venues are encouraged to have qualified first aiders available, players enter the League and its local divisions at their own risk.

The National England Pickleball League Directors, Martin Smith and David Hughes, oversee the EPL’s smooth operation and may amend rules when necessary, in consultation with local league directors. Any updates will be clearly communicated to all participants to ensure transparency and consistency across the League.

2025/2026 Season

The new season kicked off just 2 months after the end of last season, with SEPL’s first round on 14 September. Baypoint are back to defend their title, this time under the name of Pickleball Complete Academy. However the season promises to be even more competitive than the last with 300 teams competing in 12 different local leagues up and down the country. 
 
With so many teams and leagues this year there will be regional playoffs to decide which teams go through to the season ending finale in July 2026 to be held at the Dan Maskell tennis centre at Loughborough University. 
 
The Leagues are shown below – just click on the logo for tables:
• Derbyshire
• East Anglia
• Kent & East Sussex
• East Midlands
• West Midlands
• North West
• North East – Vikings
• South East
• South East (North)
• South West (East)
• South West (West)
• South Yorkshire
• White Rose
 
Each league is managed by local league directors who give up their time to volunteer and run these events – thank you!  
 
All of these leagues are full, however if you are interested in creating a league in your area contact either Martin or David (National EPL Directors).
 
To be able to manage the explosion in demand the admin, registration and scoring processes are being powered by Picklebook.   No more spreadsheets, greater transparency and integration with the rest of the PbE platform as it continues to grow and evolve.

2024/2025 Season

The 2024/25 season was the first season where regional club leagues were brought together into a season ending finale. 16 of the 160 teams who entered the local leagues came together in July at the John Charles Centre in Leeds to compete to be crowned the first ever English national club champions.  
 
After a series of round robins in the morning the competition was whittled down to the final four teams. The first semi-final between the Southampton Sharks and Pickleball Central UK was decided in the last mixed doubles game with the Sharks just coming out on top 21-18, giving them a 3-1 games win and a place in the final. The second semi-final was an equally close contest between Baypoint Aces and Aldershot & Farnham (AFPC) Scorpions. Baypoint went 2-0 up after the gender doubles games but AFPC fought back to edge the first mixed doubles 21-20. However it wasn’t enough with Baypoint closing out the match 3-1 with a win in the last mixed game.
 
The stage was set for an exciting final between the Sharks and the Aces.   It didn’t disappoint with high quality pickleball played throughout.  However the Aces were unstoppable taking the final 4-0, and were crowned the first ever England National Club Champions. 
 
Baypoint had travelled the furthest of any club to take part in the finals, and winning made the 260 mile journey back to the Kent coast that much shorter.  Congratulations to the team on the day of Heidi Pile, Kirsty Robertson, Laura Yeomans, Scott Tift and Doug Neve, and all at Baypoint Pickleball Club.