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OBA Thursday Teams
Director: Patricia Hones
OBA Pairs League - Overall
Director: Stephen Brown
OBA Pairs League - Division 1
OBA Pairs League - Division 2
Seniors Pairs
Director: Patricia Hones
Calendar
13th Jul 2026
Seniors Pairs
Roke 11am
Director: Patricia Hones
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16th Jul 2026
OBA Pairs League - starting positions
RealBridge 7pm
Director: Stephen Brown
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23rd Jul 2026
OBA Thursday Teams
RealBridge 7pm
Director: Patricia Hones
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County Green / Blue Point Events

Gloucestershire & Herefordshire Green Point Event 18-19th July Ross-on-Wye  Details and entry form here

Sat-Sun 29-30 August is the Cheltenham Congress.  Details and entry form here.

Notting Swiss Pairs 20th Sept  Details and entry form here

West of England Congress 3-4 Oct 2026     BROCHURE & ENTRY FORMS

New Bridge book by Nick Smith

King Arthur and the Knights of the Bridge table

Click here for more information. 

PREMIERSHIP LADDER

Each OBA competition counts toward this yearly ladder and give a player who has got the highest scores overall during 2025-2026

Click HERE to see the 2025-2026 final standings. 

DATES FOR COMPETITIONS IN OXFORDSHIRE 2025-2026

ALL ON REALBRIDGE (except congress and events marked F2F)

PRESIDENTS CUP    PRESIDENTS PLATE    

PREMIERSHIP LADDER

Sat/Sun 15/16 Aug 2026  Congress (Abingdon F2F) 
 
Sun 30th Aug 2026    Friendly Pairs 
 
Sun 13 Sep 2026  F2F    Harwell Cup  Oxford
 
Tue 15 Sep 2026              Cafe Bridge, Henley
 
Sun 11 Oct 2026 RealBridge    Wallingford Swiss Pairs 
Sun 8 Nov 2026        Handicap pairs
Sun 6 Dec 2026       Swiss Pairs Championship
Sun 17 Jan 2027    Mixed Pairs Oxford
Thu   4 Feb 2027       \  
Sun   7 Feb 2027       County Pairs Semis
Mon 15 Feb 2027      /
Sun  7 Mar 2027    County Pairs Final
Sun 14 Mar 2027       9H County Pairs
Sun 19th April 2027  tbc  Oxford Swiss Pairs
Sun 13th June 2027      Abingdon Swiss Pairs
Regular monthly events
Regular monthly events

OBA offers three regular monthly events, F2F or online 

 

     SECOND MONDAY - F2F Seniors Pairs at Roke, 11am, 30-33 boards.   PLEASE ENTER IN ADVANCE   2025/2026 LADDER

 

     THIRD THURSDAY - Pairs ladder on RealBridge, with promotion and relegation within two divisions, 7pm 21-22 boards.      CLICK TO JOIN AS A NEW ENTRANT    New pairs very welcome       LADDER

 

     FOURTH THURSDAY - Teams on RealBridge, 7pm, 24-25 boards     CLICK TO ENTER 10 DAYS BEFORE EVENT

EBU EVENTS
EBU EVENTS
National Inter County League

National Inter County Leagues Finals

The winners since 2007 can be seen here

 

2026

NATIONAL INTER COUNTY LEAGUE FINAL (7 June) 

   Division 2  Well done coming 3rd / 6    Christopher Whitehouse & Mary-Ann Sheehy, Finn Clark & Stuart forsyth, Tony Guilfoyle & Tony Guilfoyle, Alan Wilson & Colin Wilson    FULL RESULTS     

   Division 3  Well done coming 3rd / 6     Amr El-Kashef & Martin Illingworth, Gillian Lonsdale & Nigel Wilkes, Krys Kazmierczak & Sandra Nicholson, Malcolm Currie & Peter Litchfield   FULL RESULTS

2025

WELL DONE Inter-County Teams Finals: Division 2 winners   FULL RESULTS

I am very pleased to report that the Oxfordshire B Team won the national inter-county competition held on 8th June 2025. The competition is between the winners of all the Regional winners within the EBU area. Representing Oxfordshire were:

    Chris Wilson and Matthew Covill,     Christopher Whitehouse and Mary-Ann Sheehy,     Finn Clark and Suart Forsyth,     Gillian Lonsdale and Nigel Wilkes, 

A report of the competition has been compiled by Chris Wilson. Click HERE

2024

NATIONAL INTER COUNTY LEAGUE FINAL (2 June)  Division 2  Nigel Wilkes & Gillian Lonsdale, Christopher Whitehouse & Mary-Ann Sheehy, Martin Illingworth & Amr El-Kashef, Lawrence Wang & Yining Yang       Results 5/6   RESULT LINK

2023

NATIONAL INTER COUNTY LEAGUE:   C TEAM:  Peter Litchfield & Malcolm Currie, Lorna Swadling & Liza Furnival, Andy King & Irene Holland, Robert Gasser & Alison Withers Green   (6th/6)

2018
2018

Oxfordshire were not represented in 2019,2021,2022 (no event in 2020)

 

In 2018, the Oxfordshire B and C teams have both won their divisions of the Midland Counties Leagues, and thereby qualified to play in the Inter-County Leagues Final against the winners of the B and C team leagues from the other regional county leagues that take place across the country.  This event took place on 24 June near Coventry, and the selectors invited the following players to represent the county:

Congratulations to the B Team, that won its division.

B team - results      Adrian Lambe/Ron Quainton, Alastair Gidman/Lorna Swadling, Andrew/Dinah Lintott, Gillian Lonsdale/Nigel Wilkes

C team- results        Annabel Wade/Lawrence Haines, David Stead/David Watkins, Helen Lawton-Smith/John Slater, Malcolm Currie/Peter Litchfield