Watch the new National Badminton League live on Sky Sports
Monday 6 October 2014 09:48, UK
The inaugural National Badminton League launches this month and Sky Sports will be bringing you live action from the brand-new competition.
The NBL features six teams who take each other on over six different match nights, with one taking place each month until April 2015.
The top four then make it through to the final tournament in June when the overall winner will be crowned.
It promises to be a thrilling league, adopting a shorter form of the game as eight players compete for each team in two singles and three doubles matches.
Commonwealth gold medallist Chris Adcock will captain the University of Nottingham team as the NBL boasts a wealth of top talent, plus some of the sport’s hottest prospects.
Athens 2004 Olympic silver medallist and NBL ambassador Nathan Robertson told Sky Sports News HQ: "I've been waiting for this moment for 20 years. I wish we'd had this when I first came on to the scene as a young player.
"It's been great to be involved with the process of bringing live badminton regularly.
“It’s critical to develop new players and for the young players it does sometimes feel a long way away from to get to the Olympics, Commonwealth Games or World Championships to showcase their talent within the media, but now these guys will have a platform to really express themselves every month."
You can buy tickets for the NBL with Sky Tickets. Click here to see all available fixtures.
Fixtures live on Sky in bold. Channels to be confirmed. Subject to change.
Match Night 1 - 6th October
Birmingham Lions v Team Derby
LIVE: Milton Keynes Badminton v Surrey Smashers
Match Night 2 - 3rd November
LIVE: Loughborough Sport v Team Derby
University of Nottingham Badminton v Milton Keynes Badminton
Match Night 3 - 1st December
LIVE: Birmingham Lions v University of Nottingham Badminton
Surrey Smashers v Loughborough Sport
Match Night 4 - 26th January
Milton Keynes Badminton v Birmingham Lions
LIVE: University of Nottingham Badminton v Loughborough Sport
Surrey Smashers v Team Derby
Match Night 5 - 23rd March
Birmingham Lions v Loughborough Sport
LIVE: Team Derby v Milton Keynes Badminton
University of Nottingham Badminton v Surrey Smashers
Match Night 6 - 27th April
Team Derby v University of Nottingham Badminton
Loughborough Sport v Milton Keynes Badminton
LIVE: Surrey Smashers v Birmingham Lions
