The English open teams-of-four championship

England's premier teams championship consists of five rounds of knock-out matches played privately, qualifying eight teams to contest an all-play-all final. 

Up to 16 teams will be seeded, including the finalists in last year's competition (provided that they enter with substantially the same players).  Seeded teams will be exempt until round three (the round of 64), and will not be drawn to meet each other before the round of 16.  Any team that defeats a seeded will attain seeded status themselves.

Unseeded teams losing their first match will have automatic entry into the Plate.

On going draws & results for Crockfords & Crockfords Plate can be found here

Holders 2006/2007 :

Janet de Botton, David Burn, Jason Hackett,
Justin Hackett, Artur Malinowski, Nick Sandqvist (pictured left with the magnificent trophy). Click here for the full results

Holders 2005/2006:

Paul Gibbons, Richard Probst, Jon Cooke, John Cox, Alex Hydes

Holders 2004/2005:

Alexander Allfrey, Andrew McIntosh, Andrew Robson & David Bakhshi.

Holders 2003/2004:

Brock: (Sally Brock, Raymond Brock, Danny Davies, John Armstrong & Margaret James) (trophy winners on split-tie)

Master Points

This is a Green Point event, and the point awards are:

Round	1	2	3	4	5	Final
Points	2	2	3	4	6	See below
1 point per match won (½ for a draw), plus ranking points to the top four teams: 1st  24;  2nd  12;  3rd  7;  4th  3.

2007/2008 Timetable

The timetable will be published to all competing teams, but normally is as follows:

Round #	To be completed by
1	14th October 2007
2	25th November 2007
3	20th January 2008
4	9th March 2008
5	13th April 2008
The finals will be played over the weekend of 10th - 11th May 2008, starting at 1:00pm.  The venue will be the Paramount Hinckley Island Hotel, LE10 3JA.