The Alliance Football League
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The Alliance Football League is a Sunday League covering the whole county of Leicestershire. It was formed at the start of the 1976/77 season when the Hinckley and Harborough Alliance formed a Sunday section. When the Saturday section stopped at the end of the 1977/78 season the league was named the Hinckley and Harborough Alliance Sunday League. The current name of the Alliance Football League was used from the 1989/90 season.
Originally the teams that played in this league came from the South Leicestershire area, but this quickly expanded to include teams from Leicester and surrounding villages, plus teams from the North West Leicestershire area. Now it can be considered a truly county wide sunday league.
The league currently consists of six divisions with 66 teams.
What do we know about this league ?
I have most of the divisional winners but I’m missing all information for the 2013/14 to 2015/16 seasons.
Hinckley & Harbrough Alliance League (Sunday Section)
| Division One | Division Two | |
|---|---|---|
| 1976/77 | Cedar Motors | |
| 1977/78 | Cedar Motors | Wigston RBL |
When the Saturday section of the league stopped the league changed name to identify as a Sunday football league. The divisions were also renamed as the league expanded to a third division.
Hinckley & Harbrough Alliance Sunday League
| Premier Division | Division One | Division Two | Division Three | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978/79 | Wigston Town CC | Turner & Jarvis | Premier Drum | |
| 1979/80 | WMC Braunstone | Eyres Monsell OB | Oadby RBL | |
| 1980/81 | Eyres Monsell OB | EL Cook Electrical | Charnwood Sports | |
| 1981/82 | Aylestone Park OB | Huncote Sports & Social | Leicester Photo-Litho | Swallow |
| 1982/83 | EL Cook Electrical | WMC Braunstone Res | New Road Inn | Swinging Sporran |
| 1983/84 | WMC Braunstone | Apollo Sunday | Swinging Sporran | Narborough Rangers Res |
| 1984/85 | WMC Braunstone | Swinging Sporran | The Blues | Tom Towers |
| 1985/86 | Belgrave Liberal | Grove | Braunstone West End | Huntsman ’84 |
| 1986/87 | Hunters | Old Crown | Desford Athletic | GCM |
| 1987/88 | WMC Braunstone | Mossdale Royals | Norburg | Uppingham |
| 1988/89 | WMC Braunstone | Norburg | Leicester Foxes | Widdowson Haulage |
Another name change for the league which saw the league expand to cover most of Leicestershire. The league continued to grow, especially in the 2010s, eventually getting to nine divisions in 2015/16 before dropping slightly to the current six divisions.
The Alliance Football League
| Premier Division | Division One | Division Two | Division Three | Division Four | Division Five | Division Six | Division Seven | Division Eight | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989/90 | WMC Braunstone | Star & Garter | Wigston Plough | Wrightways | Blaby & Whetstone OB | ||||
| 1990/91 | Wigston Town CC | Bulls Head | Gearys Bakery | St. Georges Res | Bulls Head Res | ||||
| 1991/92 | Humberstone | Gearys Bakery | Husbands Bosworth | RF Brookes SSC | Gilmorton | ||||
| 1992/93 | Wigston Town CC | Wigston Town CC Res | AFC Wheatsheaf | Starry Knight | Mark Jarvis | ||||
| 1993/94 | Oadby Academicals | Blaby & Whetstone OB | Mark Jarvis | Evans Halshaw | Desford United | ||||
| 1994/95 | Wigston Town CC | Mark Jarvis | Wigston Plough | Woodgate ’80 OB | Roal Oak Rovers | ||||
| 1995/96 | Birstall Eagle | Fleckney Old Crown | Woodgate ’80 OB | NT Plasmatic | Willowbrook Rangers | ||||
| 1996/97 | Wigston Town CC | Meadow Bank | FC Plasmatic | Bulls Head Countesthorpe | Bakers Arms Syston | ||||
| 1997/98 | GEC Sports & Social Sunday | Enderby Town | Vikings Tun | Tolwell | West End WMC | Oadby & Wigston | |||
| 1998/99 | Enderby Town | Magna Windows | Premier Sports Travel | Enderby Town Res | Sporting Parva | Great Bowden | |||
| 1999/00 | Fleckney Old Crown | Tolwell | Winstanley Wanderers | Sportsman Bar | FC Park Rise | Monsell Magpies | |||
| 2000/01 | Aylestone Park Diamonds | Magna Town | Kaffir Harriers | Bushby Rangers OB | Two Triangles | Mere Athletic | |||
| 2001/02 | Advance Couriers | Monsell Magpies | West End WMC | Horse | Thurmaston United | The Abbey | |||
| 2002/03 | Advance Couriers | Leicester Foxes | Desford United | Mowmacre Rangers | All In One Windows | LM United | |||
| 2003/04 | Advance Couriers | Hockley Rangers | All In One Windows | MDR | Groby Town | Welford | |||
| 2004/05 | Advance Couriers | Countesthorpe Royals | Glen Parva | Monsell Diamonds | The Difference | Countesthorpe Athletic OB | |||
| 2005/06 | Advance Couriers | Leicester Academicals | Field Boxmore | Countesthorpe Athletic OB | Anstey Swifts OB | Legion United | |||
| 2006/07 | Oadby United | Countesthorpe Athletic OB | Anstey Swifts OB | Niffy | JBL | Toyoda Gosei | |||
| 2007/08 | Premier Sports Travel | Niffy Rangers | Legion United | Blaby & Whetstone OB | St. Patricks Sunday | Harrow | |||
| 2008/09 | Advance Couriers | Glenfield Town Sunday | Terratruck | Throops | Great Wigston | Willows | |||
| 2009/10 | Advance Couriers | Magna 73 Rangers | Kirby Muxloe Rangers | Sunbury United | Fosse City | TrinderBox | |||
| 2010/11 | Scraptoft Garage 2007 | Sparta Moshdock | Sunbury United | Star & Garter | New Road Inn | Saffron Lounge Bar Sunday | North Kilworth Sunday | ||
| 2011/12 | Premier Sports Travel | Star & Garter | Leicester Foxes OB | NRI | FC Hoskins Reserves | St. Marks | NPE | Humberstone 2000 | |
| 2012/13 | Advance Couriers | FC Azzurri | MDH Knights | Oakfield Old Boys | NPE | Monsell WMC | AFC Royal Oak | North Kilworth Sunday Res | |
| 2013/14 | unknown | Leicester Foxes OB | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | |
| 2014/15 | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | |
| 2015/16 | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown |
| 2016/17 | Sparta Moshdock | CFA | Blaby & Whetstone OB | Desford | Blaby United Sunday 2016 | FC Tumar | Horse & Trumpet | FC Wygston | |
| 2017/18 | Oadby Athletic 2012 | Swinford Chequers | FC Catalonia | West Leicester Panthers | AFC Bardo 1992 | Syston AFC Res | Markfield Rangers OB | ||
| 2018/19 | Oadby Athletic | Horse & Trumpet | Dunton & Broughton United Dynamo | CRG | Royalist | Dunton & Broughton United Dynamo Res | Ravenstone 2018 | ||
| 2019/20 | abandoned | ||||||||
| 2020/21 | abandoned | ||||||||
| 2021/22 | Oadby Athletic | Quorn Royals 2008 | NEBA | Ravenstone 2018 | Bulls Head Countesthorpe | Wigston Willow Rangers | EMR Old Boys | Huncote & Blackbird AFC | |
| 2022/23 | Sporting Dynamo | FC Tumar | Countesthorpe United | River Swift | Huncote & Blackbird AFC | South Leicester Foxes | Bulls Head Countesthorpe OB | ||
| 2023/24 | incomplete | FC Monday | North Kilworth Sunday | Fulhurst Rangers | Evington FC | Bagworth Athletic | |||