{"id":12435,"date":"2017-02-28T09:09:55","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T22:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/?page_id=12435"},"modified":"2025-09-06T16:27:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T06:57:03","slug":"state-league","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/competitions\/summer-competitions\/state-league","title":{"rendered":"State League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State League is the pinnacle of the competitions pathway in South Australia.<\/p>\n<p>The State League competition is a weekly competition played over the summer season that see\u2019s South Australia\u2019s highest-level players competing for the men\u2019s and women\u2019s State League titles. The winning teams receive prize money and the prestige of being the best club team in South Australia.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2025 State League Women&#039;s Grand Final\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EphSETcvWes?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2025 State League Men&#039;s Grand Final\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x8AXsdGUSOA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>Key Things to Know<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Please find attached a poster outlining key information for the upcoming season\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/files\/2025\/06\/State-League-Things-to-Know-2025-26.pdf\">HERE!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>2025-26 Key Dates<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Online team nominations open, 31 July 2025<\/li>\n<li>Online team nominations close, 24 August 2025<\/li>\n<li>Photo Shoot, TBD<\/li>\n<li>Start of season, 11 October 2025<\/li>\n<li>Last match before Christmas, 6 December 2025<\/li>\n<li>Break after, 6 December 2025 and returning, 31 January 2026<\/li>\n<li>Last round, 28 February 20256<\/li>\n<li>Women and Men &#8211; Finals to be run over 2 weekends commencing 14 March with Grand Final on March 21<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong style=\"font-size: 16px\">Team Nomination\u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>A Tennis Club affiliated with Tennis SA may nominate a team to compete within the State League Competition<\/li>\n<li>Nominations shall be submitted online via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/leaguemanager.tennis.com.au\/#\/login\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">League Manager<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The Nomination will require a nominating club to name in Order of Merit the players which it proposes to play in its team.<\/li>\n<li>Players nominated will be required to register and activate their own Universal Tennis Rating (UTR)\n<ul>\n<li>Clubs can no longer create a profile. A profile must be created by a player or parent\/caregiver<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/competitiveplay\/register-and-activate-your-utr#:~:text=Register%20and%20Activate%20your%20UTR%20Rating&amp;text=Simply%20register%20with%20Tennis%20Australia,have%20already%20completed%20these%20steps.&amp;text=Login%20to%20your%20existing%20account,directed%20to%20a%20new%20screen.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instructions found here<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Club&#8217;s must submit a signed Player Undertaking Document to the State League Coordinator by email prior to the nomination closing date.<\/li>\n<li>A player nominated by a club in the top four in the Order of Merit must play a minimum of five matches<\/li>\n<li>Team Fee\u2019s for State League competition will be $200 (plus GST) per team. Successful clubs will be invoiced once nominations are confirmed.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/support.tennis.com.au\/?s=online+nominations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Online Team Nomination Instructions<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Other Information<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/matchcentre.tennis.com.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Match\u00a0Centre<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/leaguemanager.tennis.com.au\/#\/login\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">League Manager<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/doc\/34098-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2025-26 State League Club Contact Information<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/doc\/34099-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2025-26 State League Venue List<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/doc\/33769-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2025-26 State League Competition Rules<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/doc\/33767-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2025-26 State League Regulations<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/doc\/33789-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2025-26 State League Player Undertaking<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/doc\/33791-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2025-26 State League Selection Criteria<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/doc\/34094-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2025-26 Team Lists<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/competitiveplay\/regulations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Code of Behaviour<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/TA-Extreme-Weather-Policy-effective-13-Oct-2022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tennis Australia Weather Policy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/doc\/20641-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tennis SA State League Terms of Reference<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tennis SA State League Coordinator<\/strong><br \/>\nDylan Hicks<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:dhicks@tennis.com.au\">dhicks@tennis.com.au<\/a><br \/>\n0401 022 754<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State League is the pinnacle of the competitions pathway in South Australia. The State League competition is a weekly competition played over the summer season that see\u2019s South Australia\u2019s highest-level players competing for the men\u2019s and women\u2019s State League titles. The winning teams receive prize money and the prestige of being the best club team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5870,"featured_media":0,"parent":20171,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12435","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5870"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12435\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}