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Cafe Bridge Photos
27th August 2025
Cafe Bridge Results
27th August 2025
Café Bridge came to Yorkshire
On 26th August YCBA ran a successful café bridge pilot in Wetherby. There were 80 bridge players, and due to the capacity of the 5 venues, we couldn’t fully satisfy the demand for the event.
Players seemed to be enjoying this new experience, and all the venues were happy to increase their turnover, each serving 16 covers and taking additional drink sales. It was a win-win for all parties.
YCBA would like to run more café bridge events, either in Wetherby or in other towns or cities in Yorkshire. We hope this can happen in partnership with our bridge clubs.
The fixture list for the 2025-26 season has been sent out to the match secretaries of the competing clubs and are also available to view on the Current Season 2025-26 page of the website, accessed via the Leagues tab.
58 teams have entered the League, an increase of two on last year.
We welcome five new teams and three clubs have each withdrawn a team.
There will be seven divisions again, with ten teams in division 7.
The first match day is Sunday 19th October.
Cafe Bridge comes to Yorkshire
19th July 2025
Café Bridge comes to Yorkshire
YCBA are running a pilot café bridge event in Wetherby town centre on Tuesday 26th August (11am to 4pm). Although café bridge is quite common in London, the south of England, and Scotland, it has not taken off in Yorkshire. We think we might be missing something, hence running a pilot event with a view to rolling it out in other locations.
The cost of the event is £25, which including a good lunch and £5 to be donated to Martin House Children’s Hospice in Boston Spa.
The winners of the Waddington cup, York A. They won both sessions comfortably for an impressive final margin of +149 IMPs. Left to right, David Beck, Keith Joules, Chris Child, Tom Cohen.
In second place was the Wetherby team of Mark Hatfield, Robert Cave, John Kitteridge & Mary Maybank, with +60 IMPs,
and in third place was Olicana (Jacqui Farrar, Tish Hopkins, Tim Emmott, Christina Powne).
Students visit The House of Lords You rang M’Lord! On Thursday 3rd July, 3 students from the York Bridge Club’s Youth Academy, Bertie, Levente and Bethany, visited the House of Lords to play bridge against The House of Lords Bridge Team. They were joined by Sophie Morris from Durham, a member of the Under 16 England Squad, and teams from 3 other schools. The students had a wonderful day which was funded by the English Bridge Educational and Development (EBED) charity, and the Yorkshire Bridge Contract Association. The trip was a reward for the York junior’s success at the National Championships in March when Bertie, Bethany and Levente were part of a team of 4 who came 3rd in the Hugh Scully Cup, behind the England Squad and European Champions.
Northern Bridge League
8th July 2025
Yorkshire lead in NBL C division
The first round of matches in the 2025 season of the Northern Bridge League was played online using RealBridge on Saturday 5th July. The Yorkshire team has established a lead of 11 points in the C division. In the A division Yorkshire is in second place just two points behind the leaders, Scotland. In the B division the county is equal third but only five points adrift of first-placed Lancashire. You can find a longer report, including team members, under the Inter-County tab of the website. For all rounds of the NBL, you can follow the progress of your favourite players online (almost live with a short delay) using the RealBridge Kibitz function.
Online Yorkshire League
7th July 2025
Leeds A and Barnsley Aces win Summer 2025 Online League
Congratulations to the Leeds A and Barnsley Aces teams who have won the first and second divisions respectively of the latest edition of the Online Yorkshire league. The Aces lost only one of their nine matches and averaged 15.00 compared with the 14.25 and 14.13 achieved by the Sheffield teams in second and third places (who each had a bye round so played only eight matches). It was much closer in the first division, where a big win in their final match saw Leeds overtake their rivals to take the title by three points from Sheffield B and five from Malton A.
The organisers would like to thank the match secretaries and team captains for their hard work in recruiting teams, liaising with team members and opponents and setting up matches, and everyone who took part as a player. In all 23 teams played 99 matches and all were completed by the final match day with only one postponement that we are aware of. A great achievement!
In the first division eight of the ten teams preferred to play their home matches on RealBridge with two choosing BBO. In the second division eight of the thirteen teams opted for BBO. There appears to be a trend towards RealBridge, perhaps as online players generally become more familiar with the platform.
The next staging of the Online Yorkshire League will be the Winter 2026 season with match days on Sundays 3th and 18th January 1st February. Make a note in your diaries now!
Entries open for YL2025-26
7th July 2025
Entries open for YL2025-26
Entities are now open for the 2025-26 season of the inter-club teams of eight Yorkshire League. Entry forms have been sent to club secretaries of YCBA affiliated clubs, with a closing date of 27th July. The list of fixtures will be issued shortly thereafter. Clubs may enter as many teams as they wish. The match days will be Sunday afternoons, starting on 19th October and then 2nd November, 23rd November, 7th December, 15th February, 8th March and 29th March.