North Leicestershire Football League 1996/97

Ashby Ivanhoe win the league for the second time.

Honours

	Winners	Runners Up
Premier Division	Ashby Ivanhoe	Ingles
Division One	Ashby Ivanhoe Reserves	Sileby United WMC
Division Two	Markfield Red Lion	Astra Charnwood
Division Three	Shelthorpe Kings Church	East Leake Athletic Reserves
Division Four	Pegg’s Green Reserves	Preci-Spark

Before the start of the season the following teams joined the league:

Busters Reserves, Coalville Town, East Leake Athletic ‘A’, Mountsorrel Rovers Reserves, Preci-Spark and Sileby United WMC.

Kegworth Town were formed by the merger of Kegworth Rovers and Kegworth Wanderers.

Name changes for this season

• Astra-Charnwood were previously Soar Valley Swifts.
• South Leicester United were previously Schlegel UK.

Pegson Premier Division

		P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Ashby Ivanhoe	20	15	4	1	78	27	51	49
2	Ingles	20	12	3	5	59	31	28	39
3	Hillside Rangers	20	12	3	5	63	45	18	39
4	Woodhouse Imperial	20	10	6	4	53	29	24	36
5	Shepshed Amateurs	20	8	8	4	41	27	14	32
6	Loughborough Town	20	8	6	6	57	38	19	30
7	West End United	20	9	2	9	63	44	19	29
8	Hathern Three Crowns	20	8	4	8	45	40	5	28
9	Belton Villa	20	3	4	13	27	68	-41	13
10	Mountsorrel Amateurs	20	2	1	17	14	87	-73	7
11	Quorn UnitedR	20	1	3	16	27	91	-64	6

Midland Vending Services Division One

		P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Ashby Ivanhoe Reserves	18	14	2	2	61	24	37	44
2	Sileby United WMCP	18	14	1	3	45	16	29	43
3	Kegworth TownP	18	12	2	4	55	25	30	38
4	Old Dalby Coronation	18	11	2	5	47	29	18	35
5	Loughborough Dynamo ‘A’	18	8	3	7	34	32	2	27
6	Bagworth BTR (-3)	18	6	3	9	31	41	-10	18
7	East Leake Albion	18	6	0	12	26	39	-13	18
8	Loughborough Town Reserves	18	5	0	13	29	54	-25	15
9	Ingles Reserves	18	3	2	13	23	61	-38	11
10	Sileby Saints	18	3	1	14	20	50	-30	10

Hex Holdings Ltd. Division Two

		P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Markfield Red LionP	20	14	5	1	64	24	40	47
2	Astra CharnwoodP	20	11	5	4	48	26	22	38
3	Shepshed Amateurs Reserves	20	10	4	6	37	32	5	34
4	Pegg’s Green	20	8	5	7	53	43	10	29
5	Measham Imperial	20	8	4	8	44	58	-14	28
6	Sutton Bonington	20	7	5	8	46	39	7	26
7	East Leake United	20	7	5	8	35	31	4	26
8	Kegworth Town Reserves	20	8	2	10	38	47	-9	26
9	Shepshed SwiftsL	20	5	7	8	41	55	-14	22
10	South Leicester UnitedR	20	5	1	14	32	64	-32	16
11	Loughborough UnitedR	20	3	5	12	25	44	-19	14

Windmill Trophies Division Three

		P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Shelthorpe Kings ChurchP	20	16	3	1	85	24	61	51
2	East Leake Athletic ReservesP	20	14	2	4	60	19	41	44
3	Mountsorrel RoversP	20	12	5	3	73	41	32	41
4	Groby	20	11	4	5	52	32	20	37
5	Woodhouse Imperial Reserves	20	9	3	8	52	46	6	30
6	Artform	20	9	2	9	49	53	-4	29
7	Busters	20	6	5	9	44	47	-3	23
8	Hathern Three Crowns Reserves	20	6	4	10	47	71	-24	22
9	Mountsorrel Amateurs Reserves	20	5	5	10	44	59	-15	20
10	Sileby Saints ReservesR	20	3	4	13	29	74	-45	13
11	Bardon Hill Sports ‘A’R	20	0	1	19	23	92	-69	1

J&D Building Contractors Division Four

		P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Pegg’s Green ReservesL	16	13	2	1	69	23	46	41
2	Preci-SparkL	16	12	2	2	51	20	31	38
3	Coalville TownL	16	11	1	4	53	21	32	34
4	East Leake Athletic ‘A’	16	10	2	4	52	29	23	32
5	Shepshed Swifts ReservesL	16	7	1	8	45	36	9	22
6	Busters Reserves	16	5	3	8	39	42	-3	19
7	Mountsorrel Rovers Reserves	16	3	1	12	20	51	-31	10
8	Loughborough United Reserves	16	2	4	10	23	57	-34	10
9	Mountsorrel Amateurs ‘A’	16	0	2	14	17	90	-73	2

• Beacon Rangers resigned from the league during the season.

After the season finished the following teams left the league:

Coalville Town, Pegg’s Green Reserves, Preci-Spark and Shepshed Swifts (+Reserves).

Name changes for next season

• Mountsorrel Rovers became Thurmaston Rangers.
• West End United became Ravenstone.