Past league winners

*Table tennis session slowly started to come back towards the end of April 2021, initially with restrictions regarding allowed numbers of participant and ‘social bubbles’ in place. By the end of summer 2021, most of the venues were open again, and regular ADTTA league play came back on 18 October 2021.

* Please note that season 2019/20 was not completed, as it was interrupted by COVID 19 lockdown, announced on 23 March 2020 when a “stay at home” order was issued, with the legal enforcement measures and restrictions coming into force on 26 March 2020.

League tables were last updated on 25 March 2020. In Division 1, 42 out of 56 league fixtures were completed, 52/72 in Division 2, 73/90 in Division 3, 69/90 in Division 4. It’s possible, that due to disturbance caused by lockdown, some scorecards didn’t reach Match Secretary at all.

*Aberdeen suffered 32 separate German air raids during World War II between June 1940 and April 1943.

Exhibition Matches:

In January 1943, an exhibition match was played between Sgt. Harry Baxter, RAF, by then three times a finalist in the Scottish TT Championships, and Rex Edwards, the 1942 English Midlands Champion, for the benefit of the Ferryhill Youth Service Recreation Club.

On Friday 23 April 1943, an International Exhibition event between players representing Britain and the Allies.  The participants were Polish Army Corporal Richard Bergmann, World Champion since 1939, Czech Army players, Sgt. Sebestak, L/Cpl Berger, and RAF Sgt. Eric Filby.  A subsequent newspaper report stated that “a packed audience enjoyed all the thrills of a World Championships.”

In early December 1933, with the sport continuing to rapidly grow in popularity, a meeting was held at Aberdeen Lads’ Club on Friday 8^th December for the purpose of forming a local table tennis league.  With six clubs indicating their intention to participate in a new league, a Committee was formed, and a start date set for January 1934.

A brief article in the Evening Express of Saturday 9^th December 1933 invited other interested parties to write to the Secretary, Table Tennis League, c/o Aberdeen Lads Club.

There is evidence to indicate that the ADTTA League started on Monday 8^th January 1934 with a match at Lads’ Club between teams from Lads’ Club and Excelsior.  In addition to Lads’ Club, YMCA also  appears to have played a leading role in the League’s early years.

It is thought likely that the inaugural season from January 1934 was of relatively short duration and that the second season, 1934/35, covered the Autumn/Winter period.

Teams participating in the 1930s included: Aberdeen Lads’ Club, YMCA, Aberdeen FC (1 season only), Mugiemoss, Astorians, Employment Exchange, Miller Bros, Oriental, Queen’s Cross Boys Club, Abbotswell, St George’s, Excelsior, Toc H, Mutual, 25^th Old Boys (BB Team), Young Liberals, Fire Station, Cults Rec Club, Shuttle Lane YM Club, Bankhead, Milburn, Victoria, Post Office Telephones, Woodside Lads Cub, Wheelers, Shelscot, RUA (a Masonic Club team), Olympic, Transport, 3^rd Rover Scouts, Broadford Works MRC and St Katherine’s.