The 1999–2000 season was the 58th in the history of
Eastern Counties Football League
The Eastern Counties Football League, currently known as the Thurlow Nunn League for sponsorship purposes, is an English football league at levels 9 and 10 of the English football league system. It currently contains clubs from Norfolk, Suffolk ...
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football
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competition in England.
Histon were champions, winning their first Eastern Counties Football League title and were promoted to the Southern Football League for the first time in their history.
Premier Division
The Premier Division featured 20 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with two new clubs, promoted from Division One:
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Clacton Town
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Mildenhall Town
Sudbury Town merged with
Sudbury Wanderers to form new club
AFC Sudbury
Amalgamated Football Club Sudbury is a association football, football club based in Sudbury, Suffolk, England. The club was formed in 1999 by the merger of Sudbury Town F.C., Sudbury Town and Sudbury Wanderers F.C., Sudbury Wanderers, the proc ...
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Histon
Histon is a village and civil parish in the South Cambridgeshire district, in the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It is immediately north of Cambridge – and is separated from the city – by the A14 road (England), A14 road which runs eas ...
won the league on the last day of the season, coming from behind to win 2-1 win away at
Gorleston with Wayne Goddard scoring the winner in the 76th minute. The victory meant that title rivals
Wroxham
Wroxham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The civil parish of Wroxham has an area of 6.21 square kilometres, and in 2001, had a population of 1,532 in 666 households. A reduced population of 1,502 in 653 household ...
, who still had a game in hand against
Warboys Town, could not catch them. Histon's victory gained them promotion to the Southern Football League and also saved
Felixstowe Port & Town from relegation as, had Wroxham won, they would not have been promoted.
League table
Division One
Division One featured 16 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with two new clubs:
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Cambridge City reserves
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Ely City, relegated from the Premier Division
League table
References
External links
Eastern Counties Football League
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1999-2000
1999–2000 in English football leagues