Welcome to ECL2022 and Round 1 Announcement

Welcome to tne new season of European Chess League. We have 60 teams, which are split into 6 groups of 10 teams. 

Promotion/demotions will be calculated based on the standing on 16th October 2022:

Division 1 - 4 teams demoted

Division 2 - 4 teams promoted (2 from each group), 6 teams relegated (3 from each group)

Division 3 - 6 teams promoted (2 from each group)

 Final standings will be announced as of 31st December 2022.

Schedule for the all rounds is available in groups forums.

Below you find the pairings of Round 1 of the ECL2022 and important links. Please go through the links used in this News or find your opponent team's page.

ECL2022 - Rules - Contacts 

Divisions - 1 - 2A - 2B - 3A - 3B - 3C

Minimum players: Div1 - 12, Div2 - 10, Div3 - 5

Promotion/demotion cutoff: 16th October 2022, Season cutoff 31th December 2022

Current results - Chessteams.info - Multiplayers

• Game Type: Standard Chess
• Starting Position: Standard Starting Position
• Days per Move: 3 days
• Players per Team: minimum: differs by division, see below; maximum: leave free
• Minimum players: Div1 - 12, Div2 - 10, Div3 - 5
• Concurrent Games: 2
• Games are RATED
• Start Time: 14. November 2021, preferably 16:00 UTC (translate to your time zone)

Accept the challenge without delay and immediately check to make sure that the match parameters and the start time are set correctly. If they are not correct, please fix the problem immediately by cancelling the match and issuing a new challenge with the correct parameters, then contact your opponent's admin to inform them of what you have done.

If you have sent your challenge but your opponent is not accepting it, please report it in the forum thread of your division, so that everybody involved can help to find and fix the problem quickly. To contact team representatives for communication and problem fixing, find them in the thread “WCL 2021: Team Contacts”. When your match is open for registration, please check (on the following day) on https://chessteams.info/ whether the match appears. If it does, everything is fine. If it doesn't, report the problem in the thread of your division (links are in the header of the news and header of main club page). Please encourage all your players to sign up for the match by posting announcements in your group's news, notes or forums. Make sure you reach the required minimum participation in time, and build good overall participation.

Important NOTES:

• Each player is allowed to play for one team in the ECL only (see rules). Multi-team players lead to result corrections. Please check the list of multi-team players at https://chessteams.info/multiplayers.php.
• Players with a time-out ratio of 25% or more may be removed from the roster.
• The share of foreign-flag players is restricted to 25% (see rules for details).
• By default, WCL matches are also counted as ECL matches if the pairings overlap (see Appendix F2 in the rules). Both teams must agree if a separate ECL match is to be set up and match link reported in the proper divison forum
  • Matches of teams in the same WCL and ECL group are marked with "x"

Division 1

Division 2A

Division 2B

Division 3A

Division 3B

Division 3C