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About the Quidditch Premier League

The Quidditch Premier League (QPL) is an elite league for the fast-growing sport of Quidditch, with each season operating through the summer months of each year. The QPL has regional divisions with teams competing against each other on a regular schedule, split between the Northern and Southern divisions, with a European division launching in 2019. Each fixture will comprise three matches, each playing the other three teams in the division. The Championship is held in a stadium at the end of the season, with the overall winning team crowned champions.

How does Quidditch work?

A Quidditch team consists of 21 athletes with 7 players per team on the field at any one time. Each player has a broom between their legs. The four maximum rules of Quidditch state that, at most, there can be four players of the same gender on the pitch at one time. This ensures that the game is mixed-gender and inclusive to all.

Players can be one of four positions:

• Keepers – Guard the hoops against opposing chasers and become a 4th chaser on offence.
• Chasers – Throw the quaffle through the opposite team’s hoops to score goals worth 10 points.
• Beaters -Throw bludgers at the opposing team to ‘knock them out’ and make them return to hoops.
• Seekers – Catch the snitch (worth 30 points) to end the game

A team of 7 will have 1 keeper, 3 chasers, 2 beaters and 1 seeker.
A game of quidditch involves three types of balls:

1. The quaffle – a semi-deflated volleyball thrown through the hoops by chasers and keepers.
2. The bludgers – dodgeballs thrown at other players by beaters. There are 3 bludgers on the pitch.
3. The snitch – a sock with a tennis ball in it attached to the snitch runner’s shorts. When caught by either team’s seeker, the game ends.