Leicester & District League 1973/74
Desford Colliery win the District League.
Honours
| Winners | Runners Up | |
|---|---|---|
| Premier Division | Desford Colliery | Hillcroft |
| Division One | Downes | Rolls-Royce & District |
| Division Two | Countesthorpe United | Asfordby |
| Reserve Section | Desford Colliery Reserves | New Parks Boys Club Reserves |
Please be aware that the tables are still a work in progress. I have the division winners and runners-up from later District League handbooks but I have no league tables, so I’m in the process of collecting all the results and cross validating them to come up with the final league tables, which may take some time !
Before the start of the season the following teams moved to the league:
From the Leicester & District Mutual Football League
Countesthorpe United (+Reserves) and Hillcroft (+Reserves).
From the Leicester City Football League
Dunton Bassett.
From the Nuneaton & District Amateur Football League
Downes (+Reserves).
Hinckley Athletic Reserves joined the league, this team was the old Fortuna team that were in the District League last season who were taken over by Hinckley Athletic to become the reserve team.
Earl Shilton Town, Leicestershire & Rutland Constabulary Reserves and Thorpe Acre also joined the league.
Premier Division
| P | W | D | L | F | A | GD | Pts | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Desford Colliery | ||||||||
| 2 | Hillcroft | ||||||||
| City Gas | |||||||||
| Cosby United ReservesR | |||||||||
| Hathern | |||||||||
| Hinckley Town ReservesM | |||||||||
| Ibstock Welfare | |||||||||
| Leicestershire & Rutland Constabulary | |||||||||
| Moira UnitedR | |||||||||
| New Parks Boys Club | |||||||||
| Quorn Reserves | |||||||||
| Thurmaston PWMC | |||||||||
| Whetstone Athletic Reserves | |||||||||
| Wigston Council Old Boys | |||||||||
| Wigston Fields Reserves |
- Hastings Academicals withdrew in early August before the start of the season.
Division One
| P | W | D | L | F | A | GD | Pts | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DownesP | ||||||||
| 2 | Rolls-Royce & DistrictP | ||||||||
| Ashby Road Sports | |||||||||
| Bagworth CollieryP | |||||||||
| Bardon Hill SportsR | |||||||||
| Bentley Engineering | |||||||||
| Burgess Products | |||||||||
| Dunton Bassett | |||||||||
| Hinckley Athletic Reserves | |||||||||
| Holwell Works ReservesR | |||||||||
| Kegworth Rovers | |||||||||
| Petfoods | |||||||||
| Sapcote United | |||||||||
| Sileby Town ReservesP |
Division Two
| P | W | D | L | F | A | GD | Pts | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Countesthorpe UnitedP | ||||||||
| 2 | AsfordbyP | ||||||||
| Barrow Old Boys ReservesM | |||||||||
| Burbage Old Boys Reserves | |||||||||
| Earl Shilton Town | |||||||||
| Hinckley Colleges Reserves | |||||||||
| Loughborough Dynamo ReservesR | |||||||||
| Stoke Golding | |||||||||
| Uppingham TownP | |||||||||
| Wigston Fields ‘A’P | |||||||||
| Willowbank |
- Market Bosworth resigned from the league at the start of the season (they were scheduled to play Wigston Fields ‘A’ in August but did not play any games).
- Thorpe Acre resigned from the league before the start of the season (there were in the League handbook for this season but not were not in any fixtures). Thorpe Acre continued to run a team in the Charnwood Sunday League so this was probably an attempt to create a Saturday team that did not get off the ground.
- Wellington Victoria Reserves resigned from the league before the start of the season.
Reserve Section
Initially the reserve teams were going to be split into two separate divisions (A & B) according to the league handbook. Subsequent fixtures and tables published in the newspapers show a single reserve section (this is confirmed in later league handbooks where only one division is recorded as having champions and runners up.)
| P | W | D | L | F | A | GD | Pts | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Desford Colliery Reserves | ||||||||
| 2 | New Parks Boys Club Reserves | ||||||||
| Ashby Road Sports ReservesR | |||||||||
| Bardon Hill Sports ReservesR | |||||||||
| Bentley Engineering ReservesR | |||||||||
| Burgess Products ReservesR | |||||||||
| City Gas Reserves | |||||||||
| Countesthorpe United ReservesR | |||||||||
| Downes Reserves | |||||||||
| Dunton Bassett Reserves | |||||||||
| Hathern Reserves | |||||||||
| Hillcroft Reserves | |||||||||
| Hinckley Town ‘A’L | |||||||||
| Ibstock Welfare Reserves | |||||||||
| Leicestershire & Rutland Constabulary Reserves | |||||||||
| Moira United ReservesM | |||||||||
| Sapcote United Reserves | |||||||||
| Thurmaston PWMC Reserves | |||||||||
| Wigston Council Old Boys Reserves |
- Hastings Academicals Reserves withdrew in early August before the start of the season.
After the season finished the following teams moved from the league:
- Barrow Old Boys Reserves, Hinckley Town Reserves and Wellington Victoria Reserves to the Leicestershire Football Combination.
- Moira United Reserves to the Coalville & District Amateur Football League.
Hinckley Town ‘A’ also left the league after this season.