No fewer than SEVEN clubs will be battling for three places in Division 3 next season when the qualification tournament takes place on 11/12 September (venue to be announced). That’s even though English Roses decided to withdraw from the League, which meant that Watford, sixth-placed team in Division 3 during the 2019/20 season, regained automatic entry for the new campaign.
Taking part in the qualifier will be two teams that did not progress to the Championship last time out, Liverpool Water Beatles and Manchester Comets, plus Durham Palatinates, Kirkintilloch & Kilsyth, St Andrew’s University, Solihull and Sunderland.
English Roses’ departure ended a successful spell of several years in the League in which their players happily demonstrated that water polo can be very much a sport for all ages!