Sheffield rout Belfast 373-130 in Five Nations blowout
Sheffield put up 373 points at Greenbank Sports Hall, and Belfast answered with a second straight loss the next day as Liverpool B won 188-139.
Sheffield’s 373-130 blast over Belfast at Greenbank Sports Hall was the kind of scoreline that leaves no room for spin. The 243-point margin was the biggest hammer of the early June Five Nations slate, and it shoved Belfast straight into a recovery test that only got harder 24 hours later.
The matchup was listed by Women’s Flat Track Derby Association stats as Five Nations Tier 3 West, and the numbers before the first whistle already hinted at a gap. Sheffield came in ranked 69th in Europe, Belfast 99th, and Sheffield’s European record stood at 3 wins and 5 losses with 1,548 points for and 1,471 against. Belfast arrived 0-8 in Europe with 1,047 points scored and 1,898 allowed, a profile that showed how often the team had been forced to chase games rather than control them.
What Sheffield did on June 6 was strip the game down to its simplest truth: win the pack, win the scoring exchanges, and never let Belfast settle into a rhythm. A tiny negative performance delta for Sheffield suggests the raw score was not as shocking to the numbers as it looked on the board, but that does not soften the blow for Belfast. In modern WFTDA play, 373 points is not just a win total, it is a statement that one side dictated every layer of the bout.
The result also fit Sheffield’s broader regional arc. Sheffield’s best-ever ranking is 44th in Europe, reached in October 2024, and the 373-point outburst added another strong result to a 2026 ledger that already mattered in the rankings picture. For Belfast, whose highest-ever regional ranking was 78th in February 2023, the margin exposed the same problem the season had been showing for months: the team had too little margin for error and too little offensive cushion to absorb a fast, efficient opponent.
That became even clearer on June 7, when Belfast lost again, this time 188-139 to Liverpool Yellow Shovemarines in another Five Nations Tier 3 West bout. Two different opponents, two different scripts, and the same end result left Belfast with a blunt set of issues to solve before the next sanctioned block: breakouts, jammer support, penalty control, and enough speed offense to keep the score moving when the pack goes bad. With the 2026 European Regional Championships set for June 12-14 in Namur, Belgium, the calendar gave no one much time to recover, and Belfast’s weekend showed exactly how unforgiving that can be.
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