Nottingham won the Midlands Counties League for the first time, including a run of six successive victories. This gave some compensation for three seasons ago, when they won every match but still failed to take the title! Eight teams had begun the season with last year's champions Derby setting a strong early pace. Stafford also produced good early results, but both pace-setters suffered home defeats in the November round of fixtures, and Nottingham started their own title charge with an important 5-3 success over their East Midland rivals. As they continued to sweep aside all opposition, it became apparent that the honours were bound for their trophy cabinet and interest centred on who would he second. Derby and Worcester emerged as the prime contenders, but Stoke-on-Trent came with a powerful late surge to claim the consolation spot, winning their final two matches 9-0 and 7-2.
The League saw a total of seventeen centuries from seven different players. A little down on last season's record of twenty-three, but still a reasonable haul. Chris Ward (Stafford) and Maurice Chapman (Worcester) both featured on the list of league centurions for the first time. Once more the prolific Peter Shelley (Stoke) dominated proceedings with nine 100+ breaks, including the season's best of 244. Jamie Moore (Nottingham) enjoyed an outstandingly consistent season with twenty wins from his twenty-one outings, the greatest number of individual victories that anyone has accumulated in a single Midland League season.
Darley Dale's Jim McCann lifted the "Herbert Beetham" County Championship Trophy for the ninth time at the North East Derbyshire Snooker Centre in Clay Cross. McCann played consistently well throughout the day and in the semi-final defeated last year's winner, David Rees of Derby. In the final he faced Colin Routledge, who had also reach the final the previous year. With a top break of 86, McCann ran out a comfortable winner by 355-284. Routledge having a break of 68. David Rees took the trophy for the highest break with 97. John Rees of Derby won the Plate competition by beating Denis Rogers of Chesterfield 414-215 in the final.