The European Chess Cup for 2025 was a 7-round 6-player team event organised by the European Chess Union, held from 19/10/2025 to 23/10/2025 at Rodos Palace on the Greek island of Rhodes. The line-up included five teams recognisable as English 4NCL teams (highlighted below in yellow) of which one represented a Northern County, namely White Rose (i.e. the 4NCL White Rose squad), captained by Sheffield’s Jonathan Arnott.

Final rankings were determined primarily by match-point total, then as first tie-break a form of Sonneborn-Berger method which excludes a team’s lowest match-point score, then as second tie-break game-point total. There were a third and a fourth tie-break method specified, though they didn’t need applying.

The White Rose team’s players and their round-by-round results and the teams they played were as follows:

Bd		Name	Rtg	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	Games	Pts.	Rd	Opposing Team	Country
1	FM	Tim Wall	2191	0	0	1	½	½	0	1	7	3	R1	Cheddleton Savills Catering	England
2	CM	Andrew Dunn	2068	0	0	0	0	1	½	0	7	1½	R2	Akureyri	Isreal
3		Aaron Rich	2004	0	0	1	1	1	½	0	7	3½	R3	SK Zmaj	Serbia etc
4		Alex Burke	2002	1	½	0	½	½	1	0	7	3½	R4	Diagonal Alcorcon	Spain
5	CM	Jonathan Arnott	2050	0	½	0	1	½		½	6	2½	R5	Dragen	Norway
6		Seth Woozeer	1762	0	½	0	½	1	½	0	7	2½	R6	SK Modra	Slovakia
7		Ben Rich	1824						0		1	0	R7	HWP Haarlem	Netherlands

All opposing teams were made up of players FIDE-registered with the country indicated except the Serbia-based SK Zmaj which comprised a mixture of nationalities. Of course, Northern-based players popped up in other teams, such as Andrew Ledger of Sheffield in Blackthorne and John Fletcher of Sheffield in The Full Ponty.

Final team placings were:

No.	Team	MP	SB	GP	No.	Team	MP	SB	GP
1	SuperChess	14	263½	31½	52	Fjolnir	7	119	21½
2	Alkaloid	12	252	30½	53	KBSK Brugge	7	118	23
3	Novy Bor	12	239	31½	54	Kingston Kings	7	118	20½
4	Bayegan Pendik chess sports club	11	263	33	55	Goztepe Spor Kulubu	7	116½	24
5	Tuxera Aquaprofit Nagykanizsai Sakk Klub	11	246½	29½	56	SK Rockaden #2 (SWE)	7	105½	22
6	Kfar Saba	11	228½	29½	57	CE Gambit Bonnevoie #1	7	103½	20
7	CE Nyon	11	175	24	58	SK 1911	7	94½	18½
8	Vugar Gashimov	10	226	28½	59	Dardania	7	92½	22
9	Turkish Airlines sports club	10	214½	29	60	Alta Sjakklubb	7	75	18½
10	Rishon Le Zion #1	10	193½	27	61	Rishon Le Zion #2	6	141	21½
11	SG Riehen	10	190½	27½	62	Lefkos Pyrgos	6	136½	20½
12	MTK Budapest	10	179	26	63	Davit Jojua's chess club	6	113½	22
13	SK K Cero Invest Nitra	10	178	26	64	TSV Schoenaich	6	112½	20½
14	SK Rockaden #1 (SWE)	10	149	25	65	Cheddleton Savills Catering	6	107	20
15	Sigil Fund Pardubice	10	146	23½	66	SK Doppelbauer Kiel	6	102	22
16	LSG Leiden	10	142½	24½	67	Aarhus Skakklub	6	94	19½
17	Schachfreunde Berlin 1903	9	180	24	68	Paul Keres #3	6	91	19
18	Silla-Integrant Col.lectius	9	176	26	69	Baerum Schakselskap	6	90½	17½
19	SG Winterthur	9	164½	24½	70	HWP Haarlem	6	90	20
20	Guzelbahce Satranc Spor Kulubu	9	162½	27	71	Akureyri	6	81½	17½
21	Pausa Chess Team	9	161½	25½	72	Bronshoj Skak Forening	6	78	17½
22	Kavala	9	147	23	73	Dundee City	6	75½	19½
23	KSK Rochade (BEL)	9	142½	22	74	Blanchardstown	6	75	20½
24	Limhamns SK	9	131	22½	75	KOSK Oostende	6	60	17
25	De Stukkenjagers	9	120	22	76	Aatos	5	102	18½
26	Beer Sheva	8	160½	23	77	SK Zmaj	5	92½	19½
27	Konya Yildiz Satranc SK	8	154	23½	78	Sharks 4NCL	5	89	19
28	Vilnius MRU-ROSK Consulting	8	151	22½	79	Ennis chess club	5	86	20
29	Paul Keres #1	8	144	25½	80	SK Radnicki	5	81½	18½
30	FC St. Pauli	8	138½	21½	81	Etela-Vantaan	5	80	17
31	De Sprenger Echternach	8	131	20½	82	Malerei 2000 Rapid Feffernitz	5	79	18
32	SV Werder Bremen	8	130	21½	83	Master Chess	5	79	17½
33	Ippotis Rhodes chess club	8	126½	22½	84	SOSS Norway	5	72½	17½
34	SK Dunajska Streda	8	126½	21½	85	Paul Keres #2	5	71½	13
35	Reykjavik chess club	8	123½	21½	86	Diagonal Alcorcon	5	46	16
36	Schachgesellschaft Solingen	8	122½	23	87	Cercle d’Échecs de Monte‑Carlo	5	37½	13½
37	Lunds ASK	8	121½	20	88	Standard de Liège TAL	4	82½	17½
38	Differdange	8	120½	23½	89	University College Dublin	4	81½	17½
39	HSK Lister Turm	8	120	24½	90	White Rose	4	71½	16½
40	Blackthorne	8	120	21½	91	Dragen	4	65	15
41	SK Oaza Praha loznice.cz	8	120	21	92	Bloemendaalse SV	4	57	15½
42	Wasa SK	8	117½	22	93	Malahide	4	50	16
43	Skakklubben Nordkalotten	8	113	21½	94	Cardiff Chess Club #1	3	69	15½
44	SK Modra	8	102	21	95	Wetteren	3	63½	12½
45	Tammer-Shakki	8	72	19	96	CE Gambit Bonnevoie #2	3	60½	15½
46	SMK Juoda Balta	7	130½	22	97	Morriston in Wales	3	57	14
47	Perfect	7	126½	22	98	The Full Ponty	3	44½	15
48	Sussex Martlets	7	124	19½	99	Dimon	2	60	15
49	Breidablik	7	122	21	100	St. Benildus	2	60	14½
50	Chania Chess Academy	7	121½	20	101	SK Konig Tegel	2	31½	10
51	Drejtesia Trokadero	7	119½	21	102	Cardiff Chess Club #2	1	28	10½

A number of Welsh and Irish teams competed - The Full Ponty is Wales-based and St. Benildus is Dublin-based - but Scotland was represented by only Dundee City it seems.