Grading Tables
The English and Welsh national brass band gradings are determined by each band's results at the regional championships over a three year period. At the end of each year, the bands with the two lowest aggregate scores in each section are promoted and the bands with the two highest aggregate scores are relegated. The winners of the lower section finals also get promoted.
The Scottish Brass Band Association uses a different grading system where the winners of each lower section automatically get promoted and a combined score over two years is used to decide the other promotion place and two relegation places.
These are our estimates of the grading tables following recent contests, not the official tables! Promotions and relegations won't be official until confirmed by the relevant regional committee.
Yorkshire Championship Section
| Band | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | Points | Promotion/Relegation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Band | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | Pnts | Prom/Rele |
| Black Dyke | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
| Brighouse & Rastrick | 6 | 2 | 2 | 10 | |
| Hammonds Saltaire | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 | |
| Carlton Main Frickley Colliery | 5 | 5 | 3 | 13 | |
| Grimethorpe Colliery | 4 | 6 | 4 | 14 | |
| Rothwell Temperance | 3 | 4 | 7 | 14 | |
| Hepworth | 8 | 7 | 6 | 21 | |
| Stannington | 6.5 p | 8 | 9 | 23.5 | |
| Horbury Victoria | 6.5 p | 6.5 p | 11 | 24 | |
| Marsden Silver | 6.5 p | 6.5 p | 12 | 25 | |
| Elland | 7 | 9 | 10 | 26 | Relegated |
| City of Bradford | 9 | 11 | 8 | 28 | Relegated |
| Number of bands | 12 | 12 | 12 | ||
| Average grading | 6.5 | 6.5 | 6.5 |
p = average grading after promotion, r = average grading after relegation, nb = average grading for new band, a = absent, d = disqualified
Yorkshire First Section
| Band | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | Points | Promotion/Relegation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Band | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | Pnts | Prom/Rele |
| Skelmanthorpe | 7 r | 3 | 3 | 13 | Promoted |
| Yorkshire Imperial | 7 r | 7 r | 1 | 15 | Promoted |
| Old Silkstone | 3 | 6 | 6 | 15 | |
| Unite the Union (City of Sheffield) | 7 r | 7 r | 5 | 19 | |
| Crofton Silver | 7 ra | 11 | 2 | 20 | |
| BD1 Brass | 7 p | 9 | 4 | 20 | |
| Knottingley Silver | 7 p | 7 p | 7 | 21 | |
| Hebden Bridge | 8 | 1 | 12 | 21 | |
| Meltham & Meltham Mills | 7 p | 7 p | 8 | 22 | |
| Chapeltown Silver | 6 | 8 | 9 | 23 | |
| Hade Edge | 7 | 5 | 11 | 23 | Relegated |
| Strata | 11 | 7 | 10 | 28 | Relegated |
| Number of bands | 13 | 13 | 12 | ||
| Average grading | 7 | 7 | 6.5 |
p = average grading after promotion, r = average grading after relegation, nb = average grading for new band, a = absent, d = disqualified
Yorkshire Second Section
| Band | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | Points | Promotion/Relegation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Band | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | Pnts | Prom/Rele |
| Lindley | 5.5 r | 3 | 3 | 11.5 | Promoted |
| South Yorkshire Police | 5.5 r | 6 r | 1 | 12.5 | |
| Emley | 5 | 6 | 2 | 13 | |
| Slaithwaite | 3 | 5 | 6 | 14 | |
| Kippax | 6 | 4 | 5 | 15 | |
| Hatfield & Askern Colliery | 5.5 r | 6 r | 4 | 15.5 | |
| Barnsley Brass | 4 | 9 | 7 | 20 | |
| Drighlington | 5.5 r | 6 r | 9 | 20.5 | |
| Huddersfield & Ripponden Brass | 5.5 p | 6 p | 10 | 21.5 | |
| Rockingham | 7 | 7 | 8 | 22 | Relegated |
| Number of bands | 10 | 11 | 10 | ||
| Average grading | 5.5 | 6 | 5.5 |
p = average grading after promotion, r = average grading after relegation, nb = average grading for new band, a = absent, d = disqualified
Yorkshire Third Section
| Band | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | Points | Promotion/Relegation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Band | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | Pnts | Prom/Rele |
| Clifton & Lightcliffe | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | Promoted |
| Barnsley Metropolitan | 4 p | 4 | 1 | 9 | |
| Wetherby & District Silver | 4 r | 3 | 3 | 10 | |
| Oughtibridge | 4 p | 4 p | 4 | 12 | |
| Wakefield Metropolitan | 4 r | 4 r | 6 | 14 | |
| Dronfield | 4 r | 4 r | 7 | 15 | |
| Maltby Miners Welfare | 6 | 5 | 5 | 16 | |
| Lofthouse 2000 | 4 r | 4 r | 9 | 17 | |
| Garforth | 5 | 6 | 8 | 19 | |
| Gawthorpe Brass | 4 | 7 | 10 | 21 | Relegated |
| Number of bands | 7 | 7 | 10 | ||
| Average grading | 4 | 4 | 5.5 |
p = average grading after promotion, r = average grading after relegation, nb = average grading for new band, a = absent, d = disqualified
Yorkshire Fourth Section
| Band | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | Points | Promotion/Relegation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Band | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | Pnts | Prom/Rele |
| Dinnington | 4 r | 4 ra | 3 | 11 | Promoted |
| Loxley Silver | 7 | 4 | 1 | 12 | |
| Friendly Band (Sowerby Bridge) | 5 | 5 | 2 | 12 | |
| Thurcroft Welfare | 8 a | 2 | 4 | 14 | |
| Dodworth Colliery MW | 3 | 6 | 5 | 14 | |
| Deepcar | 6 | 3 | 6 | 15 | |
| Tingley Brass | 4 nb | 4 nb | 7 | 15 | |
| Linthwaite | 4 | 7 | 8 | 19 | |
| Armthorpe Elmfield | 4 ra | 8 a | 9 a | 21 | Absent three years running - remove from grading table |
| Number of bands | 7 | 7 | 8 | ||
| Average grading | 4 | 4 | 4.5 |
p = average grading after promotion, r = average grading after relegation, nb = average grading for new band, a = absent, d = disqualified