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Badminton Scotland has three senior squad members out at the Luxembourg Open 2025 in an intense set of qualifying rounds with James Robertson kicking things off with a win. James Robertson kicked things off winning his opening round against England’s Aoran Zhang in a strong opening game 21-12, 21-12 to [...]

The Scottish Cup East 2025 qualifying round was held at Napier University Edinburgh  on the 27th April. Congratulation to all 12 teams participated this event. We had team from Ai Yu BC,  Danderhall BC, EBA 1, EBA2, EBA3, EBA 4, Kinghorn BC, Nomad BC 1, Nomad BC 2,  Western BC [...]

This weekend will mark the inaugural Masters Inter Group Badminton event as six teams from all over the country battle it out for the title at the Sir Craig Reedie Centre in Glasgow. Badminton Scotland already runs a Junior Inter Group and a Senior Inter Group, but with a resurgence [...]

It is with great sadness Dunfermline Badminton Association announce the death of their Honorary President George Stenhouse. Badminton was George’s life and his love and enthusiasm for the game was unbounded. In his youth he was one of the best players in the local leagues and continued playing to have [...]

Dear Badminton Community, On behalf of the board of Badminton Scotland, I would like to cover two main themes in this communication. Firstly, I would like to introduce our “new” Interim CEO, Jonathan Russell, and secondly, I would like to give some background as to what Badminton Scotland would be seeking to communicate [...]

The Under 15s Home Nations Quadrangular kicked off to great success with the team event where Scotland, Wales, Ireland and England taking on each other across five events.  Round One The hosts took on Ireland in the opening round with the teams neck and neck in the boys and girls [...]

As Adam Hall closes the chapter on a remarkable badminton career, the Scottish doubles specialist opens up about the long journey that shaped him; from winning national titles as a child to navigating injury, playing for his country and the quiet pride of building a close-knit squad culture. The Podium [...]

Kirsty Gilmour won women’s singles silver at the European Championships in Horsens, Denmark. It’s the latest honour in a glittering career which has seen Scotland’s number one bag numerous medals in European and Commonwealth competition to become one of Scotland’s most decorated badminton players in history. Since 2016, Gilmour has [...]

Yingfan Wang and Sophie MacKay both bagged a title treble at the U13 National Championships in Glasgow today, while Alfie Martin and Qing Yang Xiao claimed a brace of titles each in the U17 age group.   Top seed Wang from Edinburgh beat 3/4 seed Aarav Sinha 21-12 21-13 in [...]

There were another couple of titles decided in the Gents league in an exciting day of Badminton at David Lloyd on Sunday, as well as confirmation of Nomads retaining their mixed First Division title.  Congratulations to all the winners.  In Division 3, Nomads 2 needed at least a draw v Lunchtime [...]

This year’s Yonex East of Scotland Championships were held at the Jack Kaane Centre. We were once again delighted to have a very good entry in the tournament and there was an extra special feel to the tournament as the men’s doubles draw featured Marcus Ellis who along with Chris [...]