The 1998–99 Spartan South Midlands Football League season was the 2nd in the history of
Spartan South Midlands Football League
The Spartan South Midlands Football League is an English football league covering Hertfordshire, northwest Greater London, central Buckinghamshire and southern Bedfordshire. It is a feeder to the Southern Football League or the Isthmian League, ...
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Premier Division
At the end of the previous season regional Premier Division North and Premier Division South merged with the first ten clubs from both divisions to form new Premier Division. The Premier Division featured 23 clubs.
*Ten clubs come from Premier Division North:
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Arlesey Town
Arlesey Town Football Club is a football club based in Arlesey, Bedfordshire, England. Affiliated to the Bedfordshire County Football Association, they are currently members of the and play at Hitchin Road.
History
The club was established ...
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Brache Sparta
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Buckingham Athletic
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Harpenden Town
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Hoddesdon Town
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London Colney
London Colney () is a village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in Hertfordshire, England. It is located to the north of London, close to Junction 22 of the M25 motorway.
It is near St Albans and part of the City and District of St Al ...
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Potters Bar Town
Potters Bar Town Football Club is an English football club based in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, England. They were formed in 1960 as Mount Grace Old Scholars, and, after dropping 'Old Scholars' from the name in 1984, changed to their present na ...
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Royston Town
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*Royston, Hertfordshire, a town and civil parish, formerly partly in Cambridgeshire
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**Toddington Rovers
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Welwyn Garden City
Welwyn Garden City ( ) is a town in Hertfordshire, England, north of London. It was the second garden city in England (founded 1920) and one of the first new towns (designated 1948). It is unique in being both a garden city and a new town and ...
*Ten clubs come from Premier Division South:
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Barkingside
Barkingside is an area in Ilford, in the London Borough of Redbridge. It includes the major road junction of ''Fullwell Cross'' which also gives its name to the locality near that roundabout. The area is situated 10.6 miles (17km) north east of ...
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Beaconsfield SYCOB
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Brimsdown Rovers
Brimsdown Rovers F.C. were a football club based in Brimsdown in the London Borough of Enfield, England. They played their home games at the Goldsdown Road stadium, Brimsdown in the London Borough of Enfield. Notable former players include David ...
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Brook House
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Haringey Borough
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Hillingdon Borough
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Islington St Mary's
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Ruislip Manor
Ruislip Manor is an area of Ruislip in the London Borough of Hillingdon in West London. It is located approximately west north west of Charing Cross.
The construction of a halt on the Metropolitan Railway in the area in 1912 led to the develop ...
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St Margaretsbury
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Waltham Abbey
Waltham Abbey is a town and civil parish in the Epping Forest District of Essex, within the metropolitan and urban area of London, England, north-east of Charing Cross. It lies on the Greenwich Meridian, between the River Lea in the west and E ...
*Two clubs promoted from the Senior Division:
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Milton Keynes City, changed name from Mercedes Benz
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New Bradwell St Peter
*One club joined from the
Herts County League
The Hertfordshire Senior County League is a football competition based in Hertfordshire, England. Founded in 1898, there are currently two divisions at senior level and two divisions at reserve and development level. Sitting at step 7 of the Nati ...
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Somersett Ambury V&E
League table
Senior Division
At the end of the previous season regional Premier Division North and Premier Division South merged with the first ten clubs from both divisions to form new Premier Division, while all other Premier divisions clubs relegated to the Senior Division. The Senior Division featured eleven clubs which competed in the division last season, along with eleven new clubs.
*Five clubs relegated from Premier Division North:
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Bedford United
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Biggleswade Town
Biggleswade Town Football Club is a football club based in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, England. The club are currently members of the and play at Langford Road.
History
The club were established in 1874 as Biggleswade, later becoming known as ...
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Langford
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Letchworth
Letchworth Garden City, commonly known as Letchworth, is a town in the North Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England. It is noted for being the first garden city. The population at the time of the 2011 census was 33,249.
Letchworth ...
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Milton Keynes
Milton Keynes ( ) is a city and the largest settlement in Buckinghamshire, England, about north-west of London. At the 2021 Census, the population of its urban area was over . The River Great Ouse forms its northern boundary; a tributary ...
*Four clubs relegated from Premier Division South:
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Amersham Town
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Cockfosters
Cockfosters is a suburb of north London to the east of Chipping Barnet, lying partly in the London Borough of Enfield and partly in the London Borough of Barnet. Before 1965, it was in the counties of Middlesex and Hertfordshire.
Origins and ...
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Hanwell Town
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Harefield United
*Two clubs promoted from Division One North:
**Greenacres
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Luton Old Boys
At the end of the season
Milton Keynes
Milton Keynes ( ) is a city and the largest settlement in Buckinghamshire, England, about north-west of London. At the 2021 Census, the population of its urban area was over . The River Great Ouse forms its northern boundary; a tributary ...
were renamed Bletchley Town.
League table
Division One
Division One featured eleven clubs which competed in previous season Division One North, along with six new clubs.
*Three clubs relegated from the Senior Division:
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Ampthill Town
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Kent Athletic
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The 61 FC Luton
*Three new clubs:
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Dunstable Town
**Markyate
**Newport Athletic
League table
References
External links
FCHD Spartan South Midlands Football League page
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1998–99
1998–99 in English football leagues