ECL2018 - Registration

Next season of ECL will start on 4th February and registration will be closed in 1 month from now on 14th January 2018.

Please don't forget to confirm your participation in the forum:

https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/ecl-2018-registration

4 teams are pending to confirm in Division 2: Yerevan, Gdansk, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk

6 teams are pending to confirm in Division 3: Burgas, Levice, Sevastopol, Berlin, Izmir, Birmingham

Rules will follow WCL: https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/2018-wcl-rules. See Appendix F for specific ECL rules.

Same as in 2017 are all matches of WCL counted for ECL too by default if both teams play in the same division unless both captains agree and schedule the separate match on ECL date. This is valid for already ongoing Round 1 and Round 2 WCL games too.

Schedule for 2018 season is:

14-01-2018 - Registration deadline

04-02-2018 - Round 1

18-02-2018 - Round 2

11-03-2018 - Round 3

25-03-2018 - Round 4

15-04-2018 - Round 5

29-04-2018 - Round 6

20-05-2018 - Round 7

03-06-2018 - Round 8

24-06-2018 - Round 9

15-07-2018 - Round 10

05-08-2018 - Round 11

21-10-2018 - Cutoff