the sussex slam women's shield

After a tentative trialling last year, 2025 will see the first full year of this perfect stepping stone into hard ball using a pairs, festival-style format.
Games are 8-a-side and mirror most of the rules of the popular soft ball competition where each innings is conducted in pairs, meaning nobody gets out

player eligibility summary FOR 2025

proposed schedule for 2025

NEW FOR 2025

The following changes have been made since 2024:

• After you’ve completed your entry form, you will be automatically routed to our new payment portal where you can easily select all of the various team entries that you wish to make, along with ordering any additional balls, and pay there and then online. This removes the slower bank transfer process of previous years, however if you do require the old invoice – transfer – receipt process, then you are able to indicate this on the entry form.

 

• Whilst for this competition the majority of 2025 will utilise the original Sharks Ladies match ball, following a democratic process, from 2026 the quality of the match balls will be raised, and we will transition to using the pink Lord’s Ladies Test Special ball. This will mean a slight increase in cost which only equates to approximate 29p per player per 8-a-side game. Whilst there will be a set number of these balls included in the entry fee, teams will be welcome to order as many more as they like, for any usage, at what is an extremely competitive rate. This can be done via the payment portal. Note that any additional balls ordered in 2025 will be the new Lords balls.

   

• It is no longer a requirement for a player to be a permanent member of the club that the team in The Slam ‘belongs’ to, but there remains the restrictions over how many different teams one player can play for each year. See PLAYER ELIGIBILITY rules for full details.

2025 entry is now open

...but closes on 31st January 2025!

Team entry is just £76 (excluding ball delivery) for the new season, for which the following is included:

• Minimum of 6 matches in the competition;
• 4 new, pink, Slam-branded, Sharks match balls delivered to an address of your choice (supplementary Lords balls can be ordered at just £10.80 each);
• Design, production and full & free use of unique team logo;
• Showpiece Finals' Day for the last 4 teams in each competition, including independent umpires;
• Access to preferential match kit rates at our partner SHARKS

​Whilst 4 brand new match balls are included in the entry fee (which is all you MUST have), you are more than welcome to order more as spares or for other matches. 

Before submitting a team entry, please ensure that you have:

• familiarised yourself with all the rules, which you can access from the menu above, but particularly those in relation to PLAYER ELIGIBILITY as it is vital that you adhere to them throughout the competition as failure to do so will see the match(es) awarded to your opponent; and 
• if you are a nomadic team, read the NOMADIC TEAMS detail, which clarifies the particular arrangements that are in place for such teams.

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