SUMMARY OF LEAGUE COMMITTEE (LC) AND LEAGUE PANEL (LP) DECISIONS.
The Board of Squash Wales has created this new section of the website to provide visibility of decisions and for clubs and teams to better understand how the League Committee and League Panel are likely to determine requests for decision review or appeals relating to League matters.
The League Constitution & Rules detail the procedure and process to seek review of decisions of the League Manager to the League Committee, and to appeal to the League Panel. This process is on pages 4-6 of the League Constitution & Rules.
The League Constitution & Rules also contain other provisions which clubs and teams may seek to use for their benefit.
Date: September 2025
Club / Team: Rhiwbina G
Rule: Player will only play team squash if he can play with his mates in a team lower than his ranking through Squash Levels
LC Decision:
Not a truly exceptional circumstance as documented in rule 7.10.
Playing social squash with colleagues can be done through internal ladders, Box leagues etc.
LC decision is request denied and player will need to be ranked in a higher team
Date: September 2025
Club / Team: Rhiwbina E
Rule: Player’s primary aim is to play with his mates. Request to allow him to play in a lower team than Squash Levels would allow
LC Decision:
Not a truly exceptional circumstance as documented in rule 7.10.
Playing social squash with colleagues can be done through internal ladders, Box leagues etc.
LC decision is request denied and player will need to be ranked in a higher team
Date: September 2025
Club / Team: Old Pens C
Rule: Player to play in lower team than Squash Levels would allow, to play with “mates”
LC Decision:
Request denied
Playing with mates is not a truly exceptional circumstance and playing with mates can be done through internal ladders, box leagues etc.
LC decision is Player will need to be ranked in a higher team
Date: September 2025
Club / Team: Merthyr Ladies (H team)
Rule: Player to play 12 places lower in team at H1 because she mentors the ladies team
LC Decision:
Request denied as mentoring of a team does not require playing in that team and Squash Level of player would be highly uncompetitive
Sufficient players in the H team to keep it viable
LC decision is player will need to be ranked in a higher team and request denied
Date: September 2025
Club / Team: Cardiff Uni A
Rule: Player to play higher (A5) within A team than Squash Level would indicate
LC Decision:
Playing this player out of position at A5 would put 3 other players in breach of rule 7.10. Request denied
Date: September 2025
Club / Team: Beaufort Park 2
Rule: (3065) proposed request to play out of order as B1 player
LC Decision:
NE Wales is a stand-alone league with a more relaxed approach to playing orders agreed by all teams.
Player at B1 would make squash more competitive for all teams involved and this kind of flexibility has been agreed by the NE Wales teams
LC decision to allow Player to be ranked B1
Date: January 2025
Club / Team: Merthyr
Rule: 5.3 Players ranked in lower teams playing up in higher team
Request to allow Junior players to play up more than the allowed 6 times before being tied up so more experience of higher level squash. Juniors to be allowed to play in junior team and higher teams with no limit.
LC Decision:
Request denied to ensure junior welfare and to prevent too many games in a season. Rule for juniors to remain as for seniors
Date: February 2025
Club / Team: Meads LC
Rule: 5.11 Quota of games played prior to last 3 games of season
Request to lower the game requirement for four Meads players who missed games due to illness or unavailability.
LC Decision:
Request denied due to lack of exceptional circumstances and insufficient medical evidence. Influenza does not qualify as an exceptional circumstance.
Rule for feeder one leagues to be reviewed and any potential changes to be adopted by the members at a league AGM
Date: March 2024
Club / Team: Llandaff A
Rule: Rule: 5.11 Quota of games played prior to last 3 games of season
Request to reduce quota of games (4) games for player in A team due to injury.
LC Decision:
Request Rejected due to insufficient exceptional circumstances and medical support for allowing playing of Squash. Reason for not playing available qualifying fixture for rule 5.11 not supported
Date: January 2024
Club / Team: Llanelli A and Llanelli B
Rule: 7.1.a use of players outside of Squash level Score variance
Request to allow rank position outside of the 20% variance rule for rankings so a player can gain further Premiership A experience
LC Decision:
Request Rejected due to a too great variation outside of variance limit and insufficient SLS improvement for player while in Prem A in Winter 2023. Appropriate ranking gives Premier B experience for Spring 2024.
