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There are five Scots still in contention for Spanish gold this weekend as the Spanish International 2019 takes place in Madrid. In the women’s singles Kirsty Gilmour is top seed and opened her campaign on Thursday by beating Germany’s Fabienne Deprez 24-22 21-11 before surviving a scare on Friday against [...]

Three more clubs have joined the Shuttlemark initiative, Badminton Scotland’s National Club Accreditation Scheme. Aimed at developing and strengthening infrastructure in order to increase membership and participation, a total of 18 clubs have now attained one of the Shuttlemark awards with Allander (East Dunbartonshire), Moravian (Moray) and Orion (Fife) the [...]

These are exciting times for Para Badminton in Scotland! The new Head Coach Sarah Bok, who is a former Badminton England internationalist, wants to ensure the sport in Scotland continues to punch above its weight. Sarah represented England as a junior and then as a senior until 2009. She won [...]

Mauchline’s Holly Newall scored one of the best results of her career over the weekend as she secured a women’s singles silver medal at the Lithuanian International. What looked like a difficult opener was negotiated with relative ease as she beat fourth seed Getter Saar of Estonia 21-16 21-13 in [...]

CONGRATULATIONS Andy Cooke MBE on being appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE), in the Queen’s Birthday 2019 Honours List. Andy has dedicated the last six decades of his life to the coaching, training and nurturing of badminton players to World, European and Commonwealth medals and [...]

Badminton Scotland are developing a Club Competition Programme, with the event planned to start in 2020. We want to encourage more people to play in a club environment to create a thriving community of clubs throughout the country, providing opportunities for players of all abilities. The thoughts and opinions of [...]

The fourth Central Smash In2 Badminton Festival was held on Sunday 2nd June at Grangemouth Sports Complex. The festival was to encourage more junior and adult players to play badminton in the Central area and this time the event added both social and competitive junior events. The junior event had [...]

Organisation – Badminton Scotland Position – Chairperson Remuneration – This is a voluntary position, reasonable expenses will be reimbursed Location – Badminton Scotland’s Head Office is in Glasgow, but the role will involve a degree of travelling Contract type – this is a fixed term position for an initial period [...]

Badminton Scotland have today confirmed the appointment of Ingo Kindervater as Head of Performance. Kindervater will relocate from Germany, where he is currently National Doubles Coach for the German Badminton Association, taking up his new position in Scotland on 1 July. He will be responsible for leading and implementing Badminton [...]

Badminton Scotland has been keen to make the sport more accessible throughout the country and by working closely with local communities we have made real progress in delivering more opportunities throughout one of the most geographically challenged of regions – the highlands and islands. Various courses have been organised and [...]

We are excited to announce that applications are open for year 2 of the Pathway Club Programme, enabling Badminton Scotland to add to the 11 pathway clubs that are already in place. The Pathway Club Programme has been running for a full season.  Following a review with current pathway clubs, [...]

The Glasgow International Youth Championships reached a successful conclusion on Sunday 19th May with an action-packed day of badminton at the National Badminton Academy at Scotstoun. All of the players who made it through to Finals Day were supported by a large and very vocal crowd, creating a tremendous atmosphere [...]