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Dates and venues for the 4NCL’s 2025-2026
season
can be found here on the 4NCL website.
The ‘Hotels’ and ‘Hotel Booking Arrangements’
sections in the ‘25-26 Season’ dropdown menu on
the 4NCL website give further information on the
various venues and how to book bedrooms.
All entries need to be received together with
the appropriate entry fee by close of play on
Sunday 14
September 2025.
The online
entry form can be found here. Please note
that
entries are not confirmed until
the entry fee has been received.
Please transfer the entry fee to the 4NCL
bank account; details can be obtained by
contacting .
Please include sufficient accompanying narrative
to allow the payment to be identified.
Captains will be required to register
their players online. Captains will be sent
instructions for the use of the online software
and their login details before the initial
player registration lists deadline (see below).
Any requests for additional accounts for
captains of individual teams should be sent to .
Initial player registration lists must be
submitted by close of play on
Sunday 5th October 2025
(please note that under rule 4.2 players can
also be added up to nine days before the weekend
in which they play). Last season’s 4NCL rules
set out the information required for each
player. Players named on the initial
registration list must either be registered with
FIDE prior to the list being submitted or
eligible and willing to be registered with them
as English players. Players registered with FIDE
as ENG, or not registered, must be ECF Gold or
Platinum members (or corresponding junior
categories) at the time the registration list is
submitted. This rule will be strictly enforced.
Please note that we reserve the right to refuse
entry to teams whose registration lists are
unacceptably late.
Entry fees are as follows:
Division 1, Division 2: £475
Division 3, Division 4: £300
Entry fees entitle teams to nominate up to 16 players (Division 1,
Division 2) and 12 players (Division 3, Division
4) in their team lists. Nominated players taking
team lists over 16 (Division 1, Division 2) or
12 (Division 3, Division 4) in total will be
subject to the usual registration fees.
Registration fees and wildcard fees are as
set out in the rules.
The 4NCL rules for the 2025-2026 season will be
published as soon as we have completed our
review of them. At this stage we envisage no
major changes.
Could existing team captains please check their
contact details on last season’s ‘Captains
and Managers’
page: and
confirm that they are shown correctly. Please
notify any changes to our webmaster
Steve Connor
to update the website, Dave Thomas
to amend the email address associated with your
user account in the software, and Thomas Evans
to update the mailing list.
If
entering teams would like a link to their own
website from the 4NCL website, please let the
webmaster know.
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Entry Guidelines
25-26 in PDF (to
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