Home Counties Premier Cricket League

The Home Counties Premier Cricket League[1] is the top level of competition for recreational club cricket in the Home Counties of England, and has been a designated ECB Premier League.[2] since its founding in 2000. It originally served Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Oxfordshire, although there are at present no Bedfordshire clubs in the league and all but one of the Hertfordshire clubs withdrew after the 2013 season.

Until 2013 the league consisted of a Division One of ten clubs and a Division Two (East) and a Division Two (West), each of ten clubs, with promotion between Divisions and to and from the feeder leagues. With the withdrawal of the Hertfordshire clubs, the structure was simplified and there is now just Division One and Division Two.

There are two feeder leagues, covering narrower areas within the region:

  • Cherwell Cricket League - Primarily Oxfordshire, but also with clubs from Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, and Northamptonshire. In the past there have also been clubs from Gloucestershire and Wiltshire. [3]
  • Thames Valley Cricket League - A wide area to the west of London. Most clubs have traditionally been from Berkshire and Buckinghamshire, but there are also clubs from Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Middlesex, Oxfordshire, and Surrey. [4]

With the exception of Tring Park who have remained in the Home Counties Premier Cricket League, the Hertfordshire clubs now take part in the Hertfordshire Cricket League.

The Division One teams for 2020 were intended to be: Aston Rowant, Banbury, Buckingham Town, Datchet, Finchampstead, Henley, High Wycombe, Oxford, Thame Town, and Tring Park. The 2020 competition was cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. A replacement competition was organised for the later part of the season when cricket again became possible, but with the winners not to be regarded as official league champions.


Winners
YearChampions
2000Banbury
2001Finchampstead
2002High Wycombe
2003High Wycombe
2004Henley
2005High Wycombe
2006Slough
2007Oxford
2008High Wycombe
2009Henley
2010Henley
2011High Wycombe
2012High Wycombe
2013Henley
2014Henley
2015High Wycombe
2016Finchampstead
2017Henley
2018Henley
2019Henley
2020not played because of COVID-19 pandemic

Performance by season from 2000
Key
Gold Champions
Blue Left League
Red Relegated
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Aston Rowant 10 9 3 4
Banbury 1 2 6 4 2 5 6 5 2 2 5 7 2 3 4 2 4 4 5 2
Basingstoke and North Hants 6 4 5 7 6 9
Beaconsfield 4 7 7 10
Bicester and North Oxford 7 8 10
Bishop's Stortford 8 9
Bletchley Town 10
Buckingham Town 7
Burnham 6 6 7 6 7 10
Datchet 3
Falkland 7 5 8 10 10
Farnham Royal 9 10
Finchampstead 5 1 9 8 8 4 10 1 3 7 6
Gerrards Cross 10
Great and Little Tew 8 9
Harefield 8 7 10
Harpenden 1 8 3 7 4
Hemel Hempstead Town 9
Henley 4 8 1 4 3 7 6 1 1 4 4 1 1 3 2 1 1 1
High Wycombe 2 3 1 1 4 1 2 4 1 3 6 1 1 7 2 1 3 5 4 5
Horspath 2 9 8 8 9
Luton Town 9 10
North Mymms 1 10 8
Oxford 2 7 6 8 1 4 8 3 5 10 6 10 2 9
Oxford and Horspath 2 6
Potters Bar 1 10 6 9 8 10
Radlett 8 9 8 5 9 3 5 5 7 9
Reading 3 6 3 3 5 3 7 6 9 4 9
Slough 5 2 2 3 2 1 2 8 9 2 3 5 5 7 2 10
Thame Town 10
Tring Park 9 3 4 4 2 3 5 5 8 6 6 6 8
Welwyn Garden City 1 7 7 2 6 5 9
West Herts 10
[5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24]
^1 — Harpenden, North Mymms, Potters Bar, and Welwyn Garden City left Division 1 after the 2013 season. They and all the clubs in Division 2 East joined the Hertfordshire Cricket League.
^2 — Oxford and Horspath split into two clubs after the 2003 season; Oxford took the place in Division One while Horspath have since also reached Division One.

References
  1. HCPL Website
  2. List of ECB Premier Leagues Archived 2008-10-15 at the Wayback Machine
  3. Cherwell League
  4. Thames Valley Cricket League
  5. Club Cricket Yearbook 2006
  6. Club Cricket Yearbook 2006
  7. Club Cricket Yearbook 2006
  8. "Division 1 - 2003".
  9. "Division 1 - 2004".
  10. "Division 1 - 2005".
  11. "Division 1 - 2006".
  12. "Division 1 - 2007".
  13. "Division 1 - 2008".
  14. "Division 1 - 2009".
  15. "Division 1 - 2010".
  16. "Division 1 - 2011".
  17. "Division 1 - 2012".
  18. "Division 1 - 2013".
  19. "Division 1 - 2014".
  20. "Division 1 - 2015".
  21. "Division 1 - 2016".
  22. "Division 1 - 2017".
  23. "Division 1 - 2018".
  24. "Division 1 - 2019".
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