| Countries | England |
|---|---|
| Format | Semi-professional 50 over game |
| First edition | 1903 (Founded) 2016 (ECB Premier League) |
| Tournament format | Four divisions |
| Number of teams | 48 |
| Current champion | Woodlands CC |
| Most successful | Bradford CC, Pudsey St Lawrence CC, and Woodlands CC (10 titles each) |
| Most runs | Richard Robinson (16,352)[1] |
| Most wickets | David Batty (1,823)[2] |
The Bradford Premier League (currently known as the Gordon Rigg Bradford Premier League for sponsorship reasons) is a semi-professional cricket competition centred in Bradford, West Yorkshire. It has been described as "arguably England's strongest semi-professional competition."[3]
The league is structured into four divisions. Many teams are from Bradford, with others from neighbouring towns and cities across West Yorkshire.
The league was renamed the Bradford Premier League in 2016, upon the merger of the Bradford Cricket League and the Central Yorkshire Cricket League, and since 2016 it has been a designated ECB Premier League. Since 2016, the winners qualify to take part in the Yorkshire Championship, together with the winners of the Yorkshire Premier League North and the Yorkshire Cricket Southern Premier League, and the leading Yorkshire club in the North Yorkshire and South Durham Cricket League. Hanging Heaton won the Yorkshire Championship in 2017, the only team from the Bradford League to do so thus far.