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The Southern Athletics League is the area track and field league for clubs in the SEAA region who wish to compete in joint (male & female) teams.

All participants (including athletes and athlete support personnel) in any licensed event are bound to UK Athletics’ anti-doping rules and must make themselves familiar with these rules. Organisers of licensed events are expected to cooperate with UK Anti-Doping with regards to any code-compliant anti-doping investigations and proceedings linked to their event or participants in their event, and to include the following statement regarding anti-doping compliance, provided by UKAD, within their event registration process:
“An entrant shall be deemed to have made himself/herself/themself, familiar with, and agreed to be bound by the UKA Anti-Doping Rules and to submit to the authority of UK Anti-Doping in the application and enforcement of the Anti-Doping Rules. The UKA Anti-Doping Rules apply to entrants participating in the sport of Athletics, for 12 months from the date of entering the event, whether or not the participant is a citizen of, or resident in, the UK."

News (November 2025)

The date of the 2025 AGM:

Friday 19 December, starting at 1935. 

Online via Teams as in the last few years. (the link will be circulated later)

AGENDA ...   

1.Welcome from the Chair 

2.Apoogies from Clubs 

3.Minutes of the 2024 AGM held on 13th December    Transcript on scoring discussion

4.Matters arising from these Minutes not covered elsewhere on the Agenda

5.Secretarys Report - Update

6.Treasurers Report

7.Election of Officers

  • Chair RAY GIBBINS,
  • General Secretary VACANCY,
  • Treasurer NICOLA BARBERIS NEGRI,
  • Fixtures Secretary RAY GIBBINS 
  • Two additional members KAY REYNOLDS, MARK PURSER, TIM HALL
  • Divisional Secretaries JOHN FALVEY, MICK BROMILOW, EMILY GRIFFITHS 

8.To approve the Structure of the League for 2026       

9.Dates for 2026 ... May 16th, June 21st, Juy 19th, August 8th ... reserve date April 18th 

10.Recommendation proposed by the Management Committee 

From 2026, the teams in Divisions 1 and 2 be ranked according to their accumulated match scores, with no league points   

For MICK BROMILOW, Against TIM HUGHES  Background  Tim's response

11.Age Group changes - Update

12.Fixtures - Update 

13.League Rule 13 - proposed by NORWICH and seconded by HAVERING to amend the rule to read :

Non-scoring athletes from the participating clubs will be permitted in all events on the track. They may run with the scoring races or after the scoring races. In the field events, clubs are restricted to two non-scoring athletes per club per event. No non-scoring athletes are allowed in the Hammer, Discus and Javelin at Double Header Matches.

Scoring System 2023 and 2024 and 2025

  • New scoring system: In the new league format in divisions of 18 teams, each team will be paired with another team, that they will meet in each fixture (see Structure). In the first fixture the events are conventionally scored with 6 for a win and so on. In subesquent fixtures the scores are adjusted so that the weaker of the paired teams is not disadvantaged. This is easiest to see if you imagine how an event would be scored if your paired team was not there! This must be done for all six teams in the match.
  • For example, For paired teams A&B, C&D, E&F, suppose the order in an event is A, F, B, C, E, D:
    • A is the winner and gets 5 points
    • F (ignoring E) is second and gets 4 points
    • B (ignoring A) is second and gets 4 points
    • C (ignoring D) is fourth and gets 2 points
    • E (ignoring F) is fourth and gets 2 points
    • D is last and gets 1 point
  • The SAL Rankings on Power of Ten can be found here.