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2016–17 Eastern Counties Football League

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Season
  
2016–17

The 2016–17 Eastern Counties Football League season is the 74th in the history of Eastern Counties Football League a football competition in England. Teams are divided into two divisions; the Premier and the First.

Contents

Premier Division

The Premier Division consists of 21 clubs.

The following 2 clubs left the Premier Division before the season -

  • Norwich United – promoted to Isthmian League Division One North
  • Whitton United – relegated to Division One

    • The following 3 clubs joined the Premier Division before the season -

  • Ely City – promoted from Division One
  • Great Yarmouth Town – promoted from Division One
  • Wivenhoe Town – promoted from Division One

    • Promotion criteria

    To be promoted at the end of the season a team must:

    1. Have applied to be considered for promotion by the end of November
    2. Pass a ground grading examination by the end of March
    3. Finish the season in a position higher than that of any other team also achieving criteria 1 and 2
    4. Finish the season in one of the top three positions

    The following four teams have achieved criterion one:

  • Felixstowe & Walton United
  • Mildenhall Town
  • Newmarket Town
  • Stanway Rovers

    • Division One

    Division One consists of 21 clubs.

    The following 3 clubs left Division One before the season -

  • Ely City – promoted to Premier Division
  • Great Yarmouth Town – promoted from Division One
  • Wivenhoe Town – promoted from Division One

    • The following 5 clubs joined Division One before the season -

  • Coggeshall Town – promoted from Essex and Suffolk Border League Premier Division
  • Framlingham Town – promoted from Suffolk and Ipswich League Senior Division
  • Holland – promoted from Essex and Suffolk Border League Premier Division
  • Whitton United – relegated from Premier Division
  • Wisbech St Mary – promoted from Cambridgeshire County League Premier Division

    • References

    2016–17 Eastern Counties Football League Wikipedia
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