The Leicestershire Senior League (currently sponsored by Everards Brewery ) is a football competition based in Leicestershire , England .
13-474: The league was formed in 1896, 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. A second division was added in 1948. The longest serving team in the league was Holwell Sports , who completed 76 seasons in the league, 60 of them in the top division but left in 2008 to join the new East Midlands Counties Football League . The league currently has three divisions,
26-669: A division at level 10 of the English football league system . On 15 May 2008 The FA Leagues Committee placed the new league at Step 6 in the National League System . Eighteen clubs were invited to form the new league; The league provided a pathway for successful clubs to higher grade football, with clubs moving up to the Midland League Premier Division, Northern Counties East League Premier Division and United Counties League Premier Division - each at level 9 of
39-610: 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. Step 7 was later abolished and the Premier Division was re-classified as an NLS county feeder. For the 2008–09 season, eight of the leading sides left the league to join forces with eight clubs from
52-708: The Central Midlands League to form a new league, the East Midlands Counties Football League, at Step 6 of the National League System. That league is now defunct. The champions of the league's top division since its creation have been as follows: Holwell Sports F.C. Holwell Sports Football Club is a football club based in Asfordby Hill , near Melton Mowbray , Leicestershire , England . They are currently members of
65-684: The United Counties League Division One and play at Welby Road. The club was established in 1902 as Holwell Works. They joined the Leicester & District League , and were league champions in 1907–08. After winning the league again the following season, the club moved up to the Leicestershire Senior League . In 1911–12 they won the Leicestershire Senior League title. At the end of the following season
78-635: The Central Division. An eleventh-place finish in 1947–48 saw them earn a place in Division One for the 1948–49 season. However, the club finished bottom of the table and were relegated to Division Two. Despite only finishing seventh in Division Two in 1949–50, they were promoted back to Division One at the first attempt. In 1954–55 Holwell were Division One runners-up. They were runners-up again in 1957–58, but after finishing second-from-bottom in 1961–62,
91-599: The Premier Division, Division One and Division Two (increased from 2 divisions ahead of the 2018–19 season), and is a feeder to the United Counties League. It fed the East Midlands Counties Football League until its dissolution in 2021. The Football Association classified the Leicestershire Senior League Premier Division as Step 7, due to the quality of football played and the standard of the grounds on which teams play. The First Division
104-482: The Senior League. Holwell were Division Two runners-up in 1981–82, earning promotion to Division One., which was renamed the Premier Division in 1983. They were relegated back to the (renamed) Division One after finishing bottom of the Premier Division in 1983–84, but won Division One at the first attempt to ensure an immediate return to the Premier Division. In 1987–88 the club won the Premier Division title, and at
117-588: The club transferred to the Central Alliance . However, in their first season in the Alliance they finished bottom of the league and resigned. Holwell subsequently played in the Melton Mowbray & District Amateur League. After winning the league in 1933–34, the club rejoined the re-established Leicestershire Senior League, the league having folded at the end of the 1929–30 season. In 1946 they were placed in
130-540: The club were relegated to Division Two. This began a period of yo-yoing between the divisions as they were promoted back to Division One at the end of the 1962–63 season, then relegated the following season. The club were promoted back to Division One again in 1965–66, but relegated back to Division Two again two seasons later. In 1976 the club left the league, returning to the Leicester & District League. After finishing as runners-up in 1978–79 they rejoined Division Two of
143-821: The end of the season were renamed Holwell Sports. Under the new name, they won back-to-back Premier Division titles in 1991–92 and 1992–93. They were runners-up in 2000–01 and 2004–05, and won the League Cup in 2005–06. In 2008 the club were founder members of the East Midlands Counties League . At the end of the 2017–18 season , Holwell were transferred to Division One of the United Counties League . 52°46′05.95″N 0°55′33.37″W / 52.7683194°N 0.9259361°W / 52.7683194; -0.9259361 East Midlands Counties Football League The East Midlands Counties Football League
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#1733085929819156-407: The system. It was not until 2017 that clubs were relegated from the competition, into the Central Midlands League and Leicestershire Senior League . The competition had several feeder leagues at level 11 of the pyramid : Clubs were also liable to be transferred to other leagues if the FA deemed it geographically suitable to do so. The East Midlands Counties League was disbanded at the end of
169-552: Was an English football league that operated from 2008 to 2021, covering the counties of Derbyshire , Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire in the East Midlands . The league had one division, which stood at the tenth level of the football pyramid . The league was formed in 2008, drawing clubs from the Northern Counties East League (2), Central Midlands League (8) and Leicestershire Senior League (8) to create
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