The 2012–13 season was the 42nd in the history of

Essex Senior Football League The Essex Senior Football League is an English men's football league. It contains clubs from the Essex FA, Hertfordshire FA, London FA, Middlesex FA and the Amateur Football Alliance. It is a feeder league to Division One North of the Isth ...

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competition in England. The league featured 17 clubs which competed in the league last season, along with two new clubs: * Great Wakering Rovers, relegated from 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 ...

* London Bari, joined from the Essex Corinthian Sunday Football League *For this season only, the FA were to promote a second club from two of the following six Step 5 leagues:

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

, Eastern Counties League, Essex Senior League, Kent League, Spartan South Midlands 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

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 Guernsey ( ; Guernésiais: ''Guernési''; ) is the second-largest island in the Channel Islands, located west of the Cotentin Peninsula, Normandy. It is the largest island in the Bailiwick of Guernsey, which includes five other inhabited isl ...

(Combined Counties League). Three others – Aylesbury United (Spartan South Midlands League), Redhill (Sussex County League) and

Barkingside Barkingside is an area in Ilford, in the London Borough of Redbridge. It includes the major road junction of Fullwell Cross, which also gives its name to the locality near that roundabout. The area is situated 10.6 miles (17km) north east of Ch ...

(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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, Burnham Ramblers, Enfield 1893, Great Wakering Rovers, London Bari and

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have applied for promotion. However, Takeley failed the ground grading, and therefore could not have been promoted. Burnham Ramblers were champions, winning their first Essex Senior League title and were promoted to the Isthmian League along with runners-up Barkingside. Both clubs never played in the Isthmian League previously.

League table

References

External links

FA Full-Time League Websites (Essex Senior Football League 2012-13)

football.mitoo (Essex Senior Football League 2012-2013 Season)
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