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The UK has always entered a team in the annual online European Youth Go Team Championship, under Team Manager Alison Bexfield. Here are off-site links to pages and winners of each year since the first in 2014.

2020-2021

The first match was on Saturday 14th November, against France; the second on 12th December, then 16th January and 13th February. It looks like the UK team will be among the strongest 5 or 6 teams in the competition this year.

• Saturday 14th November 2020 UK - France 3-2 Report
• Saturday 12th December 2020 UK - Romania 2-3
• Saturday 17th January 2021 UK - Turkey 5-0 Report
• Saturday 13th February 2021 UK - TBA

The team is:

U20 players Jacob Zhang 3dan, Jayden Yui-Him Ng 1 dan

U16 players Sam Barnett 2k, Edmund Smith 3k, Scott Cobbold 3k

U12 players Daniel Chun Yang 1d, Ryan Zhang 2k, George Han 3k, Lea Wong 5k, Yanyi Xiong 9k, Alexander Timperi 10k.

2019-2020

The matches were scheduled for Saturdays 16th November, 14th December, 8th January, 15th February and - if a fifth round were to be played - 14th March. The first match was against the top team, Russia A.

• Saturday 16th November 2019 UK - Russia A 0-5 Report
• Saturday 14th December 2019 UK - Netherlands 5-0 Report
• Saturday 18th/Sunday 19th January 2020 UK - Romania 2-3 Report
• Saturday 15th February 2020 UK - Czechia 2-3 Report
• Final place: 9th country (10th team) out of 15 (16).

The full team was:

U20 Yueran Wang 3d, Tom Bradbury 2k (British Youth champion 2018)

U16 Bill Shen 1d, Edmund Smith 3k, Scott Cobbold 6k, Alexander Hsieh 7k, Caleb Monk 11k, Amy Upton 12k (current top UK girl)

U12 Daniel Yang 1d, George Han 3k, Ryan Zhang 13k, Alexander Timperi 15k, Yanyi Xiong 15k, Zoe Walters 17k, Emily Oliviere 18k

2018-2019

• Saturday 24th November 2018 UK - Croatia 3-2 Report
• Saturday 15th December 2018 UK - Germany 1-4 Report
• Saturday 12th January 2019 UK - Hungary 4-1 Report
• Saturday 16th February 2019 UK - Czechia 2-3 Report
• Final place: 7/12

Squad:

• U20 players: Yueran Wang 2 dan, Tom Bradbury 3 kyu.
• U16 players: Edmund Smith 3 kyu, Josh Gorman 4 kyu, Oscar Selby 5 kyu, Alexander Hsieh 9 kyu.
• U12 players: Daniel Yang 1 dan, George Han 3 kyu, Jianzhou Mei 15 kyu, Zoe Walters 17 kyu, Yanyi Xiong 17 kyu, Emily Oliviere 20 kyu.
• Additionally, Bill Shen - 1-dan - is an associate member of the squad. (U16 age group).

2017-2018

• Saturday 11th November 2017 UK - Germany 1-4 Report
• Saturday 25th November 2017 UK - Czechia 3-2 Report
• Saturday 27th January 2018 UK - Romania 0-5 Report
• Saturday 10th February 2018 UK - Hungary 2-3 Report
• Final place: 10/12

Squad:

2016-2017

• Saturday 3rd December 2016 UK - Serbia 2-3 Report
• Saturday 7th January 2017 UK - Italy/Switzerland/Austria 4-1 Report
• Saturday 28th January 2017 France – UK 2-3 Report
• Final place: 4/8

Team:

2015-2016

• Saturday 7th November 2015 UK vs. Poland 3-2 Report
• Saturday 28th November 2015 UK vs Czechia 2-3 Report
• Saturday 12th December 2015 Croatia, Serbia & Slovenia vs UK 3-1 Report
• Saturday 16th January 2016 Italy, Switzerland & Austria vs UK 1-4 Report
• Final position: 6/12

Team:

2014-2015

• Saturday 15th November 2014 Romania vs. United Kingdom 4-1 Report
• Saturday 29th November 2014 United Kingdom vs. Italy 4-1 Report
• Saturday 13th December 2014 United Kingdom vs. Israel 1-4 Report
• Saturday 17th January 2015 Czechia vs. United Kingdom 3-2 Report
• Final position: 10/13 Report

Team: