We're incredibly to excited to announce several new faces who are joining QuadballUK across multiple departments, each bringing fresh eyes and leadership as we continue to push and grow quadball across the United Kingdom.

William Brilliant will be joining the Executive Management Team as the new Assistant Director, working directly with QUK Co-Directors Matt Bateman and Gio Forino as he takes on the excellent Izzy Brown's role moving forward.

My quadball journey has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life, taking me from keenest fresher to club leader, and from the Oxford mud to international turf. Now I’m elated to be given the chance to take the next step in my voyage and go from club to NGB executive.

Getting to be a part of QUK will mean being able to give back to the community that has taken me so far, working with and for those that have pushed me to heights I never imagined I could have reached. I want to provide those same opportunities to people like I was a few years ago so that they can get the most from this wonderful, wacky sport that I love so dearly.

Will Brilliant, QuadballUK Assistant Director

The incredible Bronwyn Powell has joined QuadballUK as our new Youth Officer, and is already focusing on introducing the sport to new and younger audiences later this year on a new summer project.

Matthew Houghton is stepping up as our newly created National Teams Coordinator, and will be the key point of contact in managing and supporting our national teams as we look towards the upcoming European Games and the 2027 World Cup.

The fantastic Sam Mills is joining the Events team, supporting Alice Walker as our new Assistant Head of Events.

And finally, James Kramer has joined the Volunteers Department, supporting Maria Mahoney as our new Assistant Head of Volunteers after Daniel Holmes stepped down earlier this year.

Alongside Will, we're also joined by a range of brand new dedicated volunteers across several departments.

Will Brilliant

Bronwyn Powell

Matthew Houghton

Sam Mills

James Kramer

We're really excited for what this new wave of volunteers can and will bring to the sport, especially as we start winding up towards our summer season and everything that comes with it.

There is still plenty more we want to achieve across gameplay, safeguarding, youth, and media projects over the rest of 2026 - so if you want to get involved then please check out our volunteering page, or get in touch with Maria or James to chat about how you want to get stuck in!

New Faces Joining QuadballUK Leadership

We are determined to grow the sport in the United Kingdom and create more opportunities for the engagement and development of players across official university and community leagues.

We have developed this structure in the hopes that a student who discovers the sport through their university club or similar is able to transition through the season across the entire year seamlessly.

To that end, QuadballUK leadership has decided to make key changes to the season structure.

The University Season will start in October and conclude with the British University Quadball Cup in April to align with typical school terms.

The Community Season will now take place over the summer, starting in April with the Community Shield and ending with the British Quadball Cup in September.

Starting in 2026, the British Quadball Cup will serve as the qualifying tournament for the European Quadball Cup.

Allow and encourage community clubs more time to support the growth of the university league during the fall and winter months.

Give university players the opportunity to spend more time cross-playing with community teams during the university off-season.

Allow the higher level of play of the community league to take place during a period of better weather, improving the safety and experience of players, and aiding retention of new recruits. 

As part of this adjustment to the season, we have also adjusted the membership window for the ease of players and teams alike. Previously our season ran from June 1st until May 31st - from the 26/27 season onwards, the membership window will now be from October 1st until September 30th the following year.

As part of this adjustment, membership for the current 25/26 season will be valid until September 30th 2026.

See below for a thorough outline of the season and an example of what a typical season may look like for a player.

Development Cup - November

British University Quadball Cup - April

Community Shield - April

Community Leagues

British Quadball Cup - September

European Quadball Cup - May/June

IQA International Event - July

Quadball Nations Cup - October

Beyond official tournaments and leagues, we know how important regular competitions and events are for the growth and sustainment of quadball both competitively and socially. 

We also know that access to games beyond official tournaments opens this sport up to more people - both new and old members. Fantasy and club-run events have been invaluable for this and it's been encouraging to see so many teams and individuals hosting friendly or fantasy events this season.

To that end, QUK Co-Director Matt Bateman is currently working with several venue and organisational partners to announce some more casual and accessible quadball games, designed to invite and attract new joiners to the sport through the Spring and Summer months.

Please keep an eye out for future announcements regarding these upcoming casual games and how you can engage with them.

If you need support with your team's event, reach out to events@quadballuk.org and/or tournaments@quadballuk.org and we’ll see how we can help!

An overview of what a typical season of Quadball UK looks like.

Quadball UK Season Structure Overview

Season Structure Overview

We're excited to announce the three brand new faces to the Quadball UK Executive Management Team, all of whom are stepping up and into their new positions as we gear into the 2025/2026 season.

Maria Mahoney joins us as our new Head of Volunteers, succeeding the incredible Milo To.
Cornelia Tzana will be taking charge of our communications as Head of Media, replacing Gemma Gedling. And finally, the excellent Thomas Ng is joining us as the QuadballUK Secretary, after Gemma Wooliscroft stepped down earlier this year.

Photo credits Ajantha Abey Photography + Cornelia Tzana

Brand New Quadball UK Executive Volunteers!

Maria Mahoney

Cornelia Tzana

Thomas Ng

Maria joins QUK after an incredible volunteering with Oxford University Quadball Club. After joining OUQC as a fresher, Maria quickly went on to volunteer in almost every role for the club - including OUQC Captain in 2023, and club President in 2024 and 2025.

Maria now plays for Birmingham Badgers, as well as holding several appearances for Team Ireland at both European Games and the IQA World Cup.

Her experience as a volunteer and a leader in the community will be invaluable, and we cannot wait to see what she achieves during her tenure.

Cornelia brings a wealth of marketing and media experience to the role, having worked with major entertainment brands such as Disney and SEGA, as well as smaller grassroots organisations like The Leigh Purtill Ballet Company. Over the past two years, she has managed the Werewolves of London’s social media presence and led the team’s wider media initiatives, including the creation of digital and print materials for the 2024 IQA European Games in London.

An experienced quadball player, Cornelia began her career in 2013 at Emerson College in the US, back when off-pitch seeking was still part of the game. She then spent six years with The Lost Boys, helping the team reach the Final Four at the US Nationals. Since relocating to London in 2022, she has been a core member of the Werewolves of London and most recently represented Team England at the 2025 Quadball Nations Cup.

Thomas has only been in the sport for a year, and is already making waves since debuting with Oxford University Quadball Club as a fresher.

Alongside joining the Executive Management Team as our new Secretary, Thomas has also taken on a role as Clubs Officer within QuadballUK, the Head Coach role for OUQC, debuted for Team Hong Kong at the 2025 IQA World Cup, AND founded a new London quadball club (the London Aye Ayes) all within his first year.

His insight and energy on the Executive Team is wonderful to have, and we can't wait to work alongside (and at the rate he's going probably for him)

There are some great things happening in QuadballUK, and we're excited and grateful to those who commit their time and expertise into making so much of it happen.

If you want to get stuck in, or have questions about what things need working on or improving - feel free to reach out to any of us, or drop us a message via the form below.

Thanks! And good luck to our new leadership!

New faces joining the Quadball UK Executive Management Team

Below we've outlined the gameplay adjustments for the 2025/2026 season.

This post will cover the new requirements for officials and volunteer quotas for tournaments, tie-breaker policies, and new information surrounding game bans from multiple yellow card offences.

Questions, comments, and concerns can be directed to gameplay@quidditchuk.org

Gameplay Changes Being Introduced for the 2025/2026 Season

New Referee and Volunteer Requirements

Ranking/Tiebreaking Criteria

Quadball UK Ranking Criteria and Tie Breaking Criteria

2. Final rankings: Stage of elimination - Head to Head (where applicable)

3. Highest Volleyball Point Differential (VPD), with a maximum of 90 VPD able to be accumulated from any single game.

4. Number of Winning Flag Catches (flag catches in games won either off the catch itself or in the subsequent overtime play)

Updates to Match Bans and subsequent Yellow Card offences

QuadballUK Event Discipline and Suspensions Policy

We've outlined the gameplay adjustments for the 2025/2026 season.
This post will cover the new requirements for officials and volunteer quotas for tournaments, tie-breaker policies, and new information surrounding game bans from multiple yellow card offences.
Questions, comments, and concerns can be directed to gameplay@quidditchuk.org

QUK Gameplay Updates 2025/2026

Gameplay Updates 2025/2026

This post will cover adjustments and increases to both membership and tournament fees.

The core message is that fee increases are in effect across both membership and events to reflect increasing costs. We have maintained services and programmes based on member and club feedback, and intend to utilise this increase in financial resource to support clubs as we continue to grow and develop.

We've also outlined specifically why these fees have increased, and our plans moving forward to shift the financial burden away from clubs and towards a more sustainable infrastructure - both for competitions and general membership, but also wider projects beyond the base events.

Lastly, while this is not a decision we have reached lightly, it is also important to point out that QuadballUK has not increased fees for the last two seasons.

Changes to Membership Fees

Changes to Tournament Fees

Barrier to entry is a core element of something we want to minimise, especially for new joiners to the sport, and it was vital that we maintained an easy entry point for those trying out our game for the very first time.

Quadball typically attracts individuals without sporting or athletic backgrounds - which is a fantastic thing. It introduces people to an entire new community and culture that they haven't necessarily had a chance to be a part of before and we all know how great Quadball is at allowing people to discover themselves through both the sport and this welcoming community we've built around it.

So while we have increased base membership fees, we have kept the Trial Membership (now called First Time Membership) so anyone new to the sport can still get involved via the lower financial barrier.

Simply put, our general operational costs have increased. Venues being a key culprit here - we ended our ongoing venue partnership with Sheffield after significant increased costs, but also the more general expenses surrounding the operations of an event have been growing as well. Travel and accommodation costs for volunteers are the most obvious ones, but also our general background costs have been slowly ticking up.

A less obvious one is also storage. We currently hire a storage space in the Midlands which is comparatively cheaper than other options we've researched – but it very much relies on the availability of a single volunteer. When that individual is busy or unavailable, then we suddenly cannot access our core inventory, or need to organise a more expensive option to source and/or transport the equipment – which ultimately cancels out that cheaper benefit we were previously receiving. We therefore are needing to move our equipment storage so more Volunteers have ready access to it moving forward.

BQC was a great success on the university front, and it was so refreshing to see this growth of a new generation coming through with that same passion in the sport we share.

Part of the increase in fees is so we can then turn that resource back towards the clubs. A large part of our plan revolves around club-led events - not just clubs hosting events, but QUK being able to advise and resource them through equipment or personnel. Having the funds to send a referee, or organiser, or a load of equipment to a friendly event over the weekend to support a club-led event is incredibly valuable. We want to be able to support and provide directly to clubs, and be part of the work that they are doing.

Likewise, for both Northern and Southern this year, we are hosting coaching and development workshops. We have locked these in with our respective venues, and we will be able to host and educate anyone in the community on refereeing, club leadership, coaching insights, as well as holding a training day for anyone who wishes to attend.
Being able to provide and share our expertise, while engaging directly with the next generation of players and volunteers, is an important opportunity for us – and the membership fees will allow us to achieve that.

Our current Reimbursement Policy has not been updated to reflect cost increases for several years now, and that simply isn't good enough.
We intend to raise the allowances for volunteers to better reflect the current cost of travel, accommodation, and meals while attending a tournament or completing QuadballUK projects.

Referee payments are still hanging over our head as well, and this is something we intend to clear as soon as possible. Our Head of Operations, Jake Adcock, has determined who and how much money is owed. And we can start fulfilling those payments as soon as our cash flow allows it.

The largest step Gio and I wish to see is for the financial revenue streams of both our membership and events to be independent from each other. That is to say, we aren't relying on one to supplement the other. Previously, we would run the majority of our events at either cost or a small loss, with the exception of the British Quadball Cup. BQC, in turn, was relied upon as our revenue generator, and could supplement the additional fixtures financially.


Unfortunately, with reduced attendance amidst rising costs, we no longer see this as a feasible way to continue to fund our sport. Too much reliance is placed on BQC being a financial success, and that is far too risky to sustain ourselves and actually be able to plan or budget ahead.

On the membership side, that money is typically allocated into the operational costs of running the NGB. Costs such as website and associated IT expenses, equipment storage, public liability insurance, professional subscriptions, IQA memberships etc. Previously, it was also utilised to subsidise some of the costs around training for our volunteers, as well as provide some base level of funding for our national team programmes and other ad hoc expenses as they arose.
Ultimately, we need to move away from a model that relies entirely on membership and event fees. It makes things too expensive for our members, and it makes preparation and planning impossible for QuadballUK.

Gio and I are in conversations with potential partners (who approached us) about potentially working together, and we are exploring longer-term financial and resource support moving forward. The very fact that we were approached unprompted, shows that there are going to be organisations out there wanting to work with us, which is a great potential opportunity for us to take.

Merchandise is also something we are investing back into, we will have merchandise for sale at both Northern and Southern this year. We will be taking pre orders only, but more information will be shared on this in the near future.

Charity status is also something we are working through; however, this has been placed on a temporary pause as we focus on getting the season set up and ensuring our university teams can hit the ground running.

Thank you for your understanding, a full annual report will be released soon - alongside an announcement of our Annual General Forum.


If you have any issues or questions, please reach out to myself or Gio or Izzy.
We would be happy to discuss queries or concerns.

This post will cover adjustments and increases to both membership and tournament fees. We've also outlined why these fees have increased, and our plans moving forward to shift the financial burden away from clubs and towards a more sustainable infrastructure - both for competitions and general membership, but also wider projects beyond the base events.

QuadballUK Fees for the 2025/2026 Season

We're excited to announce and confirm the dates and locations for both the Northern and Southern 2025 Development Cups.

York St John University Sports Park will host Northern Development Cup on the 1st & 2nd of November, while Warwick University will once more be playing host to Southern Development Cup on the 15th & 16th of November.

This announcement comes off the back of tireless work by our Events Department, as well as a commitment to ensuring our growing University base has a calendar and structure they can work to and plan around.

The fixtures will take place in November, and both will be two-day events. Furthermore, they will feature free training workshops for all members, as well coaching, refereeing, and club leadership seminars across both events!

Northern and Southern Development Cup Confirmed

Northern Development Cup

Southern Development Cup

Although specific gameplay elements are yet to be decided (pending confirmed attendance) we can release the rough breakdown of the how weekend will operate.

Saturday is completely free and open for anyone who wishes to attend. This extends to non-student members, as well as members of clubs not in the catchment area - for example a member of Bristol Quadball Club could attend the Northern Saturday event or a Manchester member could attend the Southern Saturday event.

Saturday will begin in the late morning and will feature training, drills, coaching, and mixed friendly matches throughout the afternoon between those attending - intended as a warm-up ahead of the main games on Sunday.

Simultaneously, seminars will be held by senior QuadballUK figures, educating and training the next wave of volunteers and club leadership - covering coaching tips, referee workshops, and leadership insights.

Attendance is optional for the Saturday. However, we highly encourage clubs and their players to attend as this will be a great opportunity to meet the wider community, gain some new skills both on and off the pitch, and also be a great introduction to the sport.

There will also be a social on the Saturday evening, with an emphasis on meeting and getting to know other members of the community.

Sunday will follow a more typical format, starting in the morning and allowing attending clubs to compete with each other in round robin matches.

QuadballUK will guarantee at least three games per team on the Sunday, and a focus will be made on development for both players and volunteers - allowing new referees and coaches a chance to get to grips with managing the game.

Results from these games will determine the Northern and Southern champions, as well as inform seeding for the University Championship* in Spring 2026.

Refereeing Seminar

Club Leadership Seminar

Coaching Seminar

More information will be shared in the coming weeks, so please keep an eye out on our social media for registration and additional scheduling and gameplay information.

Looking forward to an incredible season with you all!

We're excited to announce and confirm the dates and locations for both Northern Cup and Southern Cup 2025.
Warwick University will be playing host to Southern Cup on the 1st & 2nd of November, while York St John University Sports Park will be playing host to our Northern universities on the 15th & 16th of November.

New Faces Joining QuadballUK Leadership

New Faces Joining QuadballUK Leadership

Alongside Will, we're also joined by a range of brand new dedicated volunteers across several departments.

Will Brilliant

Bronwyn Powell

Matthew Houghton

Sam Mills

James Kramer

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