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21st June 2017

Junior NBL structure announced for 2017-2018

The Junior National Basketball League structure for 2017-2018 has been announced today by Basketball England. The full structure, for all age groups, can be found by clicking on the link below.

4th July 2016

Wire well represented at U13 Regional Tournament

Last weekend saw the culmination of the basketball England 2016 Under 13 regional tournament in Sheffield and Cheshire Wire were heavily represented in the final 12 that were selected to represent the North West region. Over the weekend, the North West team competed against nine other regional teams covering all areas of England. The competition…

25th June 2016

Junior NBL Structure announced for 2016-2017

The Junior National Basketball League structure for 2016-2017 has now been announced by Basketball England. After an initial hiccup in which it was declared that there would be no Under 14 Boys North Premier League for next season because there were insufficient interested clubs, this has now been resolved and there will now be an…

1st May 2016

Glorious Cheshire Wire just fall short

Cheshire Wire Under 16 Premier are the National Premier League silver medallists for 2016. It just wasn’t to be our day as the Under 16 Premier team were unable to deliver the national title that so many of us in the club really wanted. In a tough encounter against local rivals, Manchester Magic, the first…

30th April 2016

Wire reach National final of U16 Premier League

In front of a bouyant and partisan Wire following, Cheshire Wire U16s have reached the National Final of the Under 16 Premier League with a convincing win over the South Premier Champions, the Newham Youngbloods Crusaders at the Amaechi Basketball Centre in Manchester by a score of 83-51. The tie was practically over for Newham…

14th February 2016

National call ups for Cheshire Wire duo

Congratulations from everyone at Cheshire Wire Basketball Club to Arinze Emeka-Anyakwo on being selected to represent England U16s and Luke Webster-Smith on being selected to represent Wales U18s at the inaugural Leicester Riders junior tournament to be held from the 15th to 17th February at the newly opened Leicester Community Sports Arena, the home of…

29th July 2015

Basketball England launch new NBL logos

As part of their work to continue to promote and market the sport of basketball, Basketball England have launched new logos for the National Basketball Leagues for 2015-2016. Logos for both the senior and the junior national basketball league competitions have been introduced and all clubs are actively encouraged to use them on their club…

22nd June 2015

All change as Basketball England announce junior league structure for 2015-16

Today, Basketball England announced the new junior national basketball league structure for 2015-16. Cheshire Wire have entered 7 teams as follows: One team in U14 North Premier and two teams in the U14 North West D-League One team in U16 North Premier and one team in the U16 North West D-League One team in U18…