Eastern Counties Football League

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The Eastern Counties Football League is an English football league at Levels 9 and 10 of the English football league system. It contains teams from Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire, and is a feeder to the regional divisions of either the Isthmian League or the Southern League, depending on geographical considerations.

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The league was founded in 1935, and ran as a single unit until a second division was created in 1988. The two division setup - the Premier Division and Division One - remains in place to this day. In 1976 the league changed its name to the Eastern League, followed two years later by another change to the Town and County League. The Eastern Counties League name was re-adopted in 1982.[1]

A.F.C. Sudbury won the league four seasons in a row from 2001 to 2005, but had to settle for third place in the 2005-06 season behind Lowestoft Town who were winning the league for the eleventh time, but the first in 28 years.

Due to a sponsorship contract the league is currently known as the Ridgeons Football League. Prior to the 2004-05 season, again because of sponsorship, it was the Jewson Football League.

The champions of the league have been as follows:[1]

Season Premier Division Division One
1935-36 Harwich & Parkeston/Lowestoft Town (joint)
1936-37 Crittall Athletic
1937-38 Lowestoft Town
1938-39 Colchester United reserves
1939-46 No competition due to World War II
1946-47 Chelmsford City reserves
1947-48 Chelmsford City reserves
1948-49 Chelmsford City reserves
1949-50 Tottenham Hotspur 'A'
1950-51 Gillingham reserves
1951-52 Gillingham reserves
1952-53 Gorleston
1953-54 King's Lynn
1954-55 Arsenal 'A'
1955-56 Peterborough United reserves
1956-57 Colchester United reserves
1957-58 Tottenham Hotspur 'A'
1958-59 Colchester United reserves
1959-60 Tottenham Hotspur 'A'
1960-61 Tottenham Hotspur 'A'
1961-62 Tottenham Hotspur 'A'
1962-63 Lowestoft Town
1963-64 Bury Town
1964-65 Lowestoft Town
1965-66 Lowestoft Town
1966-67 Lowestoft Town
1967-68 Lowestoft Town
1968-69 Great Yarmouth Town
1969-70 Lowestoft Town
1970-71 Lowestoft Town
1971-72 Wisbech Town
1972-73 Gorleston
1973-74 Sudbury Town
1974-75 Sudbury Town
1975-76 Sudbury Town
1976-77 Wisbech Town
1977-78 Lowestoft Town
1978-79 Haverhill Rovers
1979-80 Gorleston
1980-81 Gorleston
1981-82 Tiptree United
1982-83 Saffron Walden Town
1983-84 Braintree Town
1984-85 Braintree Town
1985-86 Sudbury Town
1986-87 Sudbury Town
1987-88 March Town United
1988-89 Sudbury Town Wroxham
1989-90 Sudbury Town Cornard United
1990-91 Wisbech Town Norwich United
1991-92 Wroxham Diss Town
1992-93 Wroxham Sudbury Wanderers
1993-94 Wroxham Hadleigh United
1994-95 Halstead Town Clacton Town
1995-96 Halstead Town Gorleston
1996-97 Wroxham Ely City
1997-98 Wroxham Ipswich Wanderers
1998-99 Wroxham Clacton Town
1999-00 Histon Tiptree United
2000-01 A.F.C. Sudbury Swaffham Town
2001-02 A.F.C. Sudbury Norwich United
2002-03 A.F.C. Sudbury Halstead Town
2003-04 A.F.C. Sudbury Cambridge City reserves
2004-05 A.F.C. Sudbury Ipswich Wanderers
2005-06 Lowestoft Town Stanway Rovers
2006-07 Wroxham Walsham-le-Willows

Season Winner Runner-Up
2003/2004 Maldon Town Soham Town Rangers
2004/2005 Halstead Town Histon Reserves
2005/2006 AFC Sudbury Lowestoft Town
2006/2007 Lowestoft Town Ipswich Wanderers

  1. ^ a b RSSSF

Eastern Counties Football League Premier Division 2007/08
v • d • e

Cambridge Regional College | Dereham Town | Felixstowe & Walton United | Harwich & Parkeston | Haverhill Rovers | Histon Reserves | Ipswich Wanderers | King's Lynn Reserves | Kirkley & Pakefield | Leiston | Lowestoft Town | Mildenhall Town | Needham Market | Newmarket Town | Norwich United | Soham Town Rangers | Stanway Rovers | Swaffham Town | Walsham-le-Willows | Wisbech Town | Woodbridge Town | Wroxham
Eastern Counties Football League First Division 2007/08
v • d • e

Cornard United | Debenham LC | Diss Town | Downham Town | Ely City | Fakenham Town | FC Clacton | Godmanchester Rovers | Gorleston | Great Yarmouth Town | Hadleigh United | Halstead Town | Long Melford | March Town United | Saffron Walden Town | Stowmarket Town | Thetford Town | Tiptree United | Whitton United
English football league system - Level 9 & 10
Promotion to: Isthmian League Division One North
Relegation to: Suffolk and Ipswich League, Anglian Combination,
Essex and Suffolk Border League, Cambridgeshire League
Football in England Flag of England
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League competitions The FA Cup competitions
Premier League England (B) (C) FA Cup
The Football League (Champ, 1, 2) (U-21) (U-20) (U-19) Football League Cup
Football Conference (Nat, N, S) (U-18) (U-17) (U-16) FA Community Shield
Northern Premier (Prem, 1N, 1S) List of clubs Football League Trophy
Southern League (Prem, 1Mid, 1S&W) List of venues FA Trophy
Isthmian League (Prem, 1N, 1S) (by capacity) Conference League Cup
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