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CAERPHILLY CATAPULTS: The Welsh Catapults, formed in 1402, wear vertically striped robes of light green and scarlet. Their distinguished club history includes eighteen League wins and a famous triumph in the European Cup final of 1956, when they defeated the Norwegian Karasjok Kites.
CHUDLEY CANNONS: The Chudley Cannons glory days may be considered by many to be over, but their devoted fans live in hope of a renaissance. The Cannons have won the League twenty-one times, but the last time they did so was in 1892 and their performance over the last century has been lacklustre. The Chudley Cannons wear robes of bright orange emblazoned with a speeding cannon ball and a double 'C' in black.
FALMOUTH FALCONS: The Falcons wear dark-grey and white robes with a falcon-head emblem across the chest. The Falcons are known for hard play, reputation consolidated by their world-famous Beaters, Kevin and Karl Broadmoor, who played for the club form 1958 to 1969.
HOLYHEAD HARPIES: The Holyhead Harpies is a very old Welsh club(founded in 1203) unique among Quidditch teams around the world becuase it has only ever hired witches. Harpy robes are dark green with a golden talon upon the chest. The Harpie's defeat of the Heidelberg Harriers in 1953 is widely agreed to have been one of the finest Quidditch games ever seen.
KENMARE KESTRELS: This Irish side was founded in 1291 and is popular worldwide for the spirted displays of their leprechaun mascots and the accomplished harp playing of their supporters. The Kestrels wear emerald-green robes with two yellow 'K's back to back on the chest.
MONTROSE MAGPIES: The Magpies are the most successful team in the history of the British and Irish League, which they have won thirty-two times. Twice European Champions, the Magpies have fans across the globe. The Magpies wear black and white robes with one magpie on the chest and another on the back.
PRIDE OF PORTREE: This team comes from the Isle of Skye, where it was founded in 1292. The 'Prides', as they are known to their fans, wear deep-purple robes with a gold star on the chest.
PUDDLEMERE UNITED: Founded in 1163. Puddlemere United is the oldest team in the League. Puddlemere has twenty-two League wins and two European Cup triumphs to its credit. Puddlemere players wear navy-blue robes bearing the club emblem of two crossed golden bulrushes.
TUTSHILL TORNADOS: The Tornados wear sky-blue robes with a double 'T' in dark blue on the chest and back. Founded in 1520, the Tornados enjoyed their greatest period of success in the early twentieth century when, captained by Seeker Roderick Plumpton, they won the League Cup five times in a row, a British and Irish record. Roderick Plumpton played Seeker for England twenty-two times and holds the British record for fastest capture of a Snitch during a game (three and a half seconds, against Caerphilly Catapults, 1921).
WIGTOWN WANDERERS: This Borders club was founded in 1422 by the seven offspring of a wizarding butcher named Walter Parkin. A Parkin decendant has often been found on the Wigtown team over the centuries and in tribute to their origins, the players wear blood-red robes with a silver meat cleaver upon the chest.
WIMBOURNE WASPS: The Wimbourne Wasps wear horizontally striped robes of yellow and black with a wasp upon their chests. Founded in 1312, the Wasps have been eighteen times League winners and twice semi-finalists in the European Cup. They are alleged to have taken their name from a nasty incident which occurred during a match against the Applyby Arrows in the mid-seventeenth century, when a Beater flying past a tree on the edge of the pitch noticed a wasp's nest amoung the branches and batted it towards the Arrow's Seeker, who was so badly stung that he had to retire from the game. Wimbourne won and thereafter adopted the wasp as their lucky emblem.
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