2025/26 Bell House Premier League
Short Form Rules
Submit your prediction of the result of each Premier League match listed on the Enter Predictions tab whenever I remind/chase you…
For those interested in learning more…
Format
The Bell House Premier League 2025/26 consists of 2 Divisions of 13 teams.
We will play 2 BHPL seasons during the Premier League Season; Winter and Spring.
The top 4 sides in Division 2 in the Winter Season will be promoted to Division 1 for the Spring Season. They will replace the bottom 4 sides in Division 1 who will be relegated to Division 2.
Each season will consist of 26 BHPL Rounds. Every team will play at Home and Away against every team in their Division (24 games). In addition, each team will play one home and one away game against a single opponent from the other Division (2 games).
BHPL
Each game is played by predicting the results of Premier League matches.
The Away team predicts 5 Premier League matches and the Home team predicts those matches plus a sixth bonus “Home” match.
A goal is scored for each correct prediction.
Premier League matches to be predicted have been selected randomly, with the following caveats, which means that we require the TV schedules to be set before finalising the selection:
For Premier League Rounds that occur at the weekend, we only select matches that occur on a Saturday or Sunday, whenever possible.
If a match is postponed/rescheduled after being selected it will be replaced if time permits. Matches postponed at the last minute will not be replaced and will be ignored (all players deemed to have made an incorrect prediction). If a match is abandoned during play, we will use the score at the time the match is abandoned.
The bonus home match will always be the last game to kick off on Sunday for weekend rounds and for midweek rounds will be the last game to kick off on the last day of the mid-week schedule.
Double Header Rounds
In order to play the required number of BHPL Rounds utilising the 38 Premier League rounds, certain BHPL Rounds will be double-header rounds, where we play 2 BHPL games.
A double-header round will use all 10 premier league matches subject to the postponement rules above.
In a double header round each BHPL team will play one home and one away game against the same opponent. This requires a total of 11 predictions, which means we will predict one Premier League match twice. This match will be the first game to kick off in the set of 10 matches and will be used in both BHPL games. You can either make the same prediction or select a different prediction for this match, but you will need to submit it twice.
The sixth bonus home match will be the same in both BHPL games.
League Positions
3 points are awarded for a win and 1 for a draw.
League position is determined by points with ties decided by goal difference and goals scored.
Only if required to settle prize/promotion/relegation places we will consider head-to-head record and if necessary, a coin toss.
The Hasina Championship
Over the season, each team will make 286 predictions.
Each team’s overall percentage correct will be tracked in the Hasina Championship table.
At the end of the season, teams that have the same number of correct predictions tie and will share equal position and any applicable prize.
Rayleigh Pub Crawl Challenge Cup
There will be an annual cup competition with more details to follow…
Prize Funds
Participating for cash prizes is optional. If you do want to have a chance of winning prizes the entry fee is GBP 30 or USD 40.
Prize pools will be based on the number of participants in each competition who have entered.
The entry fee is spread as follows:
BHPL Winter Season GBP 10 (funds allocated to the division you participate in)
BHPL Spring Season GBP 10 (funds allocated to the division you participate in)
The Hasina Championship GBP 5
Rayleigh Pub Crawl Challenge Cup GBP 5
Prize funds are paid to the top 4 prize fund participating players in each league competition and to any prize fund participating Semi-Finalists and Finalists in the cup.