{"id":16846,"date":"2025-12-08T13:34:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T12:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/?p=16846"},"modified":"2025-12-08T21:09:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T20:09:34","slug":"record-8-of-25-most-pool-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/?p=16846","title":{"rendered":"Record 8 of 25: Most Pool wins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Castlefields hold the record for most Pool wins with 8 Pool A successes since it was introduced in 1998. They won the inaugural one against Wem USC on Meole Brace, and then again in 2000 at Prees when it was 12 a side. In 2005 they won it as an 8 a side competition at Wem Sports, and in 2008 at Telepost, beating St Georges both times. In 2011 they beat at St Georges, before waiting till 2018 to win it again against Wem USC on Chester Road. They have then won it the last two seasons, against Ifton and Hanwood at Meole Brace and respectively. They have also lost in four finals in 2002, 2009, 2013 and 2023. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ifton hold the record for most Pool Bs with five wins in 2003, 2005, 2007, 2011 and 2017. They have also lost in a further 8 finals, five in the Pool B in 2000, 2008, 2013, 2017 and 2018, and three in Pool A in 2015, 2022 and 2024. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adderley are the only club to have won three consecutive years, winning the Pool B in 2023, 2024 and 2025. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sir John Bayley are the only club to have won both Pools, winning the Pool B in 2008, and then the Pool A in 2015, 2017, 2022 and 2023. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Castlefields and Hanwood are the only clubs to have played in the Pool A, while the team that have played the most times only in the Pool B is Bylet, playing in it 21 times. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Castlefields hold the record for most Pool wins with 8 Pool A successes since it was introduced in 1998. They won the inaugural one against Wem USC on Meole Brace, and then again in 2000 at Prees when it was 12 a side. In 2005 they won it as an 8 a side competition at &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[113,38,209],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5VaGi-4nI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16846"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16850,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16846\/revisions\/16850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}