The 2012–13 Combined Counties Football League season (known as the 2012–13 Cherry Red Records Combined Counties Football League for sponsorship reasons) was the 35th in the history of the

Combined Counties Football League The Combined Counties Football League is a regional men's Association football, football league in south-eastern England with members in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Kent, Middlesex, Oxfordshire, Surrey, and the wester ...

, a

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competition in England.

Premier Division

The Premier Division featured three new teams in a league of 22 teams after the promotion of Guildford City to the

Southern Football League The Southern League is a football competition featuring semi-professional clubs from East Anglia, the South and Midlands of England, and South Wales. Together with the Isthmian League and the Northern Premier League it forms levels seven a ...

: * Bedfont Sports, promoted as runners-up in the First Division. *

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, promoted as champions of the First Division. *

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, promoted as third-placed club in the First Division. For this season only, the FA were to promote a second club from two of the following six Step 5 leagues: Combined Counties League,

Eastern Counties 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 ...

, Essex Senior League, Kent League,

Spartan South Midlands 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, ...

and the

Sussex County League The Southern Combination Football League (named Premier Sports Southern Combination Football League) is a football league broadly covering the counties of East Sussex, West Sussex, Surrey and South West London, England. The league consists of e ...

. This was to fulfil the expansion of the

Isthmian League The Isthmian League () is a regional Association football, football league covering Greater London, East of England, East and South East England, featuring mostly semi-professional clubs. Founded in 1905 by amateur clubs in the London area, th ...

Divisions One North and South from 22 to 24 clubs each. The two clubs were to be promoted on a points per game basis, and the two runners-up with the best PPG were VCD Athletic (Kent Football League) and Guernsey (Combined Counties League). Three others – Aylesbury United (Spartan South Midlands League), Redhill (Sussex County League) and

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(Essex Senior League) – were also confirmed as promoted by the FA on 17 May, due to resignations and non-promotions elsewhere. *From this league, only

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, Egham Town, Epsom & Ewell, Guernsey, Hanworth Villa,

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and

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applied for promotion.

League table

Results

Division One

Division One featured four new teams in a league of 18 teams: *

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, a new club formed after Croydon Athletic folded. * Banstead Athletic, relegated from the Premier Division. * Epsom Athletic, promoted as champions of the Surrey Elite Intermediate League. * Mole Valley SCR, relegated from the Premier Division. *Eversley F.C. changed their name to Eversley & California F.C. They were ineligible for promotion after failing to achieve the required ground grading from the league.

League table

Results

References

League tables

External links

Combined Counties League Official Site
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