Leicestershire Senior League
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The Leicestershire Senior League (currently sponsored by Everards Brewery) is a football competition based in Leicestershire,England.
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[edit] History
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The league was formed in 1896,[1] had a two year hiatus between 1901 and 1903, and has run continuously since 1903 apart from during the two world wars and a four-year spell in the 1930s.[2] A second division was added in 1948.[1]
The longest serving team in the league is Holwell Sports, who have completed 76 seasons in the league, 60 of them in the top division.[3]
[edit] Current structure
The league currently has two divisions, the Premier Division and Division One, and is a feeder to the Midland Football Alliance. Although the Midland Alliance is at Step 5 of the National League System (the ninth tier of the overall English football league system), the Football Association classifies the Leicestershire Senior League Premier Division as Step 7 rather than 6, due to the quality of football played and the standard of the grounds on which teams play. The First Division is therefore not part of the NLS, meaning that clubs in that division are not eligible to take part in the FA Vase. An application to re-grade the Premier Division to Step 6 was turned down by the FA in 2006.
For the 2008-09 season, eight of the leading sides will leave the league to join forces with eight clubs from the Central Midlands League to form a new league, the East Midlands Counties Football League, at Step 6 of the National League System.
[edit] Champions
The champions of the league's top division since its creation have been as follows:[4]
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[edit] 2007-08 Members
The member clubs in the 2007–08 season are as follows:
[edit] Premier Division
Anstey Nomads | Aylestone Park | Bardon Hill Sports | Barrow Town | Birstall United | Blaby & Whetstone Athletic | Ellistown | Highfield Rangers | Hinckley Downes | Holwell Sports | Ibstock United | Kirby Muxloe SC | Ratby Sports | Rothley Imperial | Saffron Dynamo | St. Andrews | Thurmaston Town | Thurnby Rangers
[edit] Division One
Anstey Town | Asfordby Amateurs | Ashby Ivanhoe | Cottesmore Amateurs | Dunton & Broughton Rangers | Earl Shilton Albion | FC Braunstone Victoria | FC Khalsa | Hathern | Huncote Sports & Social | Leicestershire Constabulary | Lutterworth Athletic | Lutterworth Town | Narborough & Littlethorpe | Ravenstone | Sileby Town
