The Lewis & Harris Football Association is a football association which controls the Lewis & Harris League is the annual football league contested between clubs from

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. Like several other northern amateur leagues, the competition takes place in a summer calendar rather than the traditional winter program. Lewis contributes eight clubs to the league and Harris contributes one. The league is fully licensed with the

Scottish Amateur Football Association The Scottish Amateur Football Association (SAFA) is the organising body for amateur football across Scotland. An affiliate of the Scottish Football Association, the SAFA has in turn 50 regional associations affiliated to it and some 67 diff ...

and each club competes in the Highland Amateur Cup annually, with member clubs winning the cup eight times in its history.

Member clubs

*Back *Carloway *Harris *Lochs *Ness *Point *Stornoway Athletic *Stornoway United *West Side

List of Lewis and Harris Football League champions

Performance by Club

Representative team

A 'select' team representing Lewis & Harris periodically enters cup competitions organized by the

North Caledonian Football Association The North Caledonian Football Association is a football association operating throughout the Highlands and Islands of Scotland and is a recognised body of the Scottish Football Association (SFA) and as such has its senior football competitions of ...

. This team should not be confused with the Western Isles representative team, which competes at the

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and usually selects players from both the Lewis & Harris and Uist & Barra amateur leagues. As of 2017, the squad is managed by Kevin Anderson. The team, to date, has triumphed in one cup competition - when they won 1–0 against Golspie Sutherland in the final of the ''North Caledonian Cup'' at Dalmore Park,

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. The match, contested in November 2014, was broadcast with live commentary on BBC Radio nan Gàidheal.

Honours

* North Caledonian Cup: 2014–15

External links

Lewis & Harris AFA League Website
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