Northern Bridge League
The Northern Bridge League is a teams-of-eight competition between county bridge associations, mostly in the north of England. Regular participants in recent years have been Cumbria, Lancashire, LIncolnshire, Manchester, Merseyside & Cheshire, Westmorland and Yorkshire. In some years, teams from Scotland, north Wales and other English counties have also taken part. There are three divisions: A, B and C, with the C division intended for players of ‘good club standard’ and B and A for each county’s strongest players.
Since the pandemic, the competition has been played online using RealBridge. There are four match days, usually Saturdays in the summer and early autumn months. On each match day there is a round robin of matches in each division, and the scores are aggregated to give an overall winner of each division for the season as a whole.
The NBL has its own website and results pages, which can be accessed using the links on the right.
The 2025 season of the Northern Bridge League
The match days in 2025 will be Saturdays 12th July, 16th August, 13th September and 11th October. We will post here a short report on the outcome of all of these matches.
The Yorlshire A team for the first round of matches has been selected and it is:
Dave Robinson & Tony Sowter, Paul Brereton & Frank Dixon, Tom Cohen & Phil Morrison, and Sandra Penfold & Brian Senior.
This page was last updated on 1st May 2025.
