The 2015–16 Northern Counties East Football League season was the 34th in the history of the
Northern Counties East Football League
The Northern Counties East Football League is a semi-professional English association football, football league. It has two divisions – Premier Division and Division One – which stand at the ninth and tenth levels of the English football lea ...
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football
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competition in England.
For the first time, a series of Division 1 play-offs will decide a third promotion winner to the Premier Division.
Premier Division
The Premier Division featured 18 clubs which competed in the previous season, along with four new clubs.
*Clubs promoted from Division One:
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Clipstone
Clipstone in north Nottinghamshire is a small ex-coal mining village built on the site of an old army base and close to the site of a medieval royal palace. The population of the civil parish was 3,469 at the 2001 census, increasing to 4,665 a ...
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Pontefract Collieries
*Clubs relegated from the
Northern Premier League
The Northern Premier League is an English football league that was founded in 1968. It has four divisions: the Premier Division (which stands at level 7 of the English football league system), Division One East, Division One West and Divisio ...
:
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Brigg Town
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Rainworth Miners Welfare
League table
Results
Stadia and locations
Division One
Division One featured 19 clubs which competed in the previous season, along with three new clubs:
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Glasshoughton Welfare, relegated from the Premier Division
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Hull United, promoted from the
Humber Premier League
The Humber Premier League is a football competition for clubs in the East Riding of Yorkshire and north Lincolnshire areas of England.
History
The league was formed in 2000. Reckitts won the league five times in the first six seasons of its ex ...
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Westella & Willerby, promoted from the
Central Midlands Football League
The Central Midlands Football League is an English football league covering the northeast-central part of England. Formed in 1971 as the South Derbyshire League, changing name initially to the Derbyshire League before changing to its current nam ...
League table
Play-offs
Semi-finals
Final
Results
Stadia and locations
League Cup
The 2015–16 Northern Counties East Football League League Cup is the 34th season of the league cup competition of the Northern Counties East Football League.
First round
Second round
Third round
Fourth round
Fifth round
Semi-finals
Final
Played on 14 May 2016 at
Garforth
Garforth () is a town in the metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
It sits in the Garforth and Swillington ward of Leeds City Council and the Elmet and Rothwell parliamentary constituency. As of 2011, the popula ...
.
References
External links
Northern Counties East Football League
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