The Yorkshire ECB County Premier League was the top level of competition for recreational

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, and between 1999 and 2015 was a designated ECB

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. The competing teams in 2015, which was the league's last season, were: Appleby Frodingham,

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, Castleford, Cleethorpes, Doncaster Town, Driffield Town, Harrogate, Hull, Rotherham Town, Sheffield Collegiate,

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, and Yorkshire CCC Academy. After the 2015 season, the league was reconfigured to form the basis of two new regionalised leagues. Castleford, Driffield, Harrogate, Hull,

, and Yorkshire CCC Academy joined a new

Yorkshire Premier League North The Yorkshire Premier League North was formed in early 2016 following the re-structure of club cricket within Yorkshire, and is an ECB Premier League. Of the initial twelve competing teams, six were from the now disbanded Yorkshire ECB County ...

, together with six clubs promoted from the York and District Senior League (Acomb, Dunnington,

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, Sheriff Hutton Bridge, Stamford Bridge, and Woodhouse Grange). Appleby Frodingham,

, Cleethorpes, Doncaster Town, Rotherham Town, Sheffield Collegiate, and Sheffield & Phoenix United (formed from a merger between

and their neighbouring club, Rotherham Phoenix) joined a new

Yorkshire South Premier League The Yorkshire South Premier League was formed in early 2016, as part of the restructuring of club cricket in Yorkshire, and is an ECB Premier League. Of the twelve initial teams competing, seven came from the now disbanded Yorkshire ECB County ...

, together with four clubs promoted from the South Yorkshire League (Aston Hall, Treeton, Whitley Hall, and Wickersley Old Village) and one from the Central Yorkshire League (Wakefield Thornes). Both of these new leagues had ECB Premier League status from the outset, and the

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was also awarded this status effective from 2016. The winners of these three leagues, together with the highest placed Yorkshire club in the

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, then contests a

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Winners

Performance by season

References

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