Elgin Bombers led this match for roughly three days and lost it in ninety minutes. Ben White opened the scoring almost before anyone had settled in, and by the break the Bombers were twelve clear with Dewsbury-Hall and Tarkowski both delivering. West Adams kept themselves in it through Tavernier and Ndiaye, but going into the final night they still trailed 41–40 — and Elgin had nobody left to play. The Flying Lions had two. João Pedro scored inside the opening minute of the last match standing, Lacroix turned provider from the back, and a seventeen-point closing burst turned a one-point deficit into a sixteen-point win. Elgin owned this fixture 9–1 coming in; they now own it 9–2, and they will not forget how.

The closest series in the league went to the wire again, and again it turned late. Bramley were 15–1 up early through Calafiori and Tzolis, still ahead at the break, and looked to be managing it. Then the Seagulls' second half arrived: Gakpo struck just after the interval, Wieffer and Georginio piled in behind him, and twenty-nine points in a single afternoon flipped a five-point deficit into a six-point lead. Neither side had a player left for the closing stages, so the Seagulls simply watched the clock run out on a match they had trailed for most of. All-time, this rivalry is now dead level at 10–10.

Osborn FC could not have started better or finished worse. Ødegaard and Havertz combined for seventeen points in the opening exchanges while SHRKFKRS were still waiting to get a player on the pitch — 17–0, and the Sharks had not touched the ball. Osborn were still twelve clear at the break. Then Gvardiol, Szoboszlai and Barry delivered twenty-four points between them in the second half, and the Sharks went ahead for the first time in the match with barely anything left to play for. A late Neto point and a Sánchez clean sheet closed it out. Osborn have now lost eleven of nineteen in this series.

This one was decided early and buried late. Chicken Tikka Mo Salah were ahead from the opening exchanges through Raya and Gabriel, and by the break had stretched it to 27–5 with McBurnie and Branthwaite both returning. SaMo Bulls never managed more than four points in any phase of the match. Palmer then produced thirteen on his own in the closing stages, with Gonzalo alongside him, to finish it 48–11 — the biggest blowout of the season so far and the lowest single-gameweek total any club has posted. The Tikkas move to 8–5 in the all-time series.

The defending champions were sixteen points down at the break and won by twenty-eight. Andover FC did everything right early — Saka and Pickford had them 22–6 up and cruising against a Trey Burt Ernie side that had scored precisely nothing in the opening exchanges. Then came the second half, and it was carnage: Hinshelwood sixteen, Guéhi ten, Elanga nine with a goal in the opening five minutes of his match. Thirty-seven points in one phase. Rogers added eight more late for good measure. Andover had led this series 12–4 all-time; it is 12–5 now, and the champions announced themselves by erasing the biggest deficit of the round.

The oldest grudge in the division settled nothing. NELA FC took the first Championship meeting 48–27, the second-highest total of the round, and cut the Lews' long-standing edge in this fixture to 8–7. Two clubs with real top-flight history, and only one of them looked like it.

The division's highest score of the opening round, and comfortably so. Hiberian put up 49 in the first competitive match the club has ever played and beat The Corgis by twenty-four. A first meeting between the two, and an emphatic way to open a ledger.

Los Lechoneros spoiled the debut. Boricua Bacon Brigade won 41–26 in the first meeting between the clubs, leaving The Commuters still waiting for a first win under the new identity.

The Eastsiders opened their history with a statement, beating The Rascals 44–28. A blank ledger going in, and Kirkwood now own every page of it.

The only tight match in the division. Loxingham & Schmearwich edged it 34–28, the single-digit margin of the round, in a fixture that looks like it will be worth watching.