International Team Events

There are various international team events held each year, both online and face-to-face. The UKBGF organises a formal team for those events which accept one team per country, and acts as a coordinator assembling as many teams as practicable for those who take multiple entries. A Captain is appointed every two years to oversee team selection, both before the event and, in the case of the European team Championships where each individual fixture involves selecting players from a squad, on the day. Our current Captain is Chris Rogers, and the Women’s Team captain is Julia Hayward.

Face-to-Face events

World (formerly European) Team Backgammon Championship

• 2025, Kamena Vourla, Greece:
• 2024: Stockholm, Denmark:
• 2023:
• 2022:
• 2021:
• 2020:
• 2019:
• 2018:
• 2017:
• 3rd European Team Championship, Denmark 2016:
• 2nd European Team Championship, Budapest 2015: 15th/15 (Tim Cross, Ray Kershaw, Graham Sievers, Yan Kit Chan, Jim Wong, David Philips, Simon Hill)
• 1st European Team Championship, Dubrovnik 2014: no UK team

World Women’s Team Backgammon Championship

• 2025, Kamena Vourla, Greece: Quarter-finals (Julia Hayward (c), Cecilia Rogers, Merrin Rose, Rachel Rhodes, Anna Parker, Becca Bell)
• 2024, Stockholm, Sweden: Finalists (Julia Hayward (c), Merrin Rose, Rachel Rhodes, Anna Parker, Becca Bell, Anna Price)

Nations Team Tournament, Monte Carlo

Played in March, multiple teams of 4 per country.

• 1st Nations Team Tournament, 2016:

World Cup

Played in April-May, multiple teams of 5 per country.

• World Cup 2016, Tblisi, Georgia:

Online events

WBIF World (formerly EBGF European) Online Team Championship

Played annually on GridGammon starting in the summer, one team of 5 per country. This tournament is triple-elimination, with a round-robin style final should three teams end up as the last standing.

• 2025: 39th/41 (Gaz Owen, Oliver Squire, Reece Hodges, Pete Heskett, Chris Bray)
• 2024: 12th/42 (Sebastian Wilkinson, Gaz Owen, Reece Hodges, Pete Heskett, Oliver Squire, Chris Bray)
• 2023: 4th/40 (Sebastian Wilkinson, Gaz Owen, Aref Alipour, Reece Hodges, Pete Heskett, Chris Bray)
• 2022: 26th/34 (Sebastian Wilkinson, Gaz Owen, Aref Alipour, Reece Hodges, Pete Heskett)
• 2021:
• 2020:
• 2019:
• 2018:
• 2017:
• 2016:
• 2015 Championship: 3rd (Sebastian Wilkinson, Gaz Owen, Jon Barnes, Chris Rogers, Charles Hill)
• 2014 Championship: Eliminated on round 5 (Simon Barget, Gaz Owen, Jon Barnes, Eric McAlpine, Chris Rogers)

WBIF World Women’s Online Team Championship

• 2025: 6th/25 (Julia Hayward, Merrin Rose, Rachel Rhodes, Anna Parker, Anna Price, Miranda Moulton)
• 2024: 17th/23 (Julia Hayward, Cecilia Rogers, Merrin Rose, Rachel Rhodes, Anna Parker, Anna Price)
• 2023: 12th/16 (Julia Hayward, Cecilia Rogers, Rachel Rhodes, Anna Parker, Anna Price, Safi Tracy)