2015–16 Eastern Counties Football League

Thurlow Nunn Eastern Counties Football League
Season	2015–16
Champions	Norwich United
← 2014–15 2016–17 →

The 2015–16 Eastern Counties Football League season (known as the 2015–16 Thurlow Nunn Eastern Counties Football League for sponsorship reasons) is the 74th in the history of Eastern Counties Football League, a football competition in England. Teams are divided into two divisions; the Premier and the First.

Premier Division

Eastern Counties League Premier Division
Champions	Norwich United
Promoted	Norwich United
Relegated	Whitton United

The Premier Division consists of 20 clubs.^[1]

The following 3 clubs left the Premier Division before the season -

Diss Town - relegated to Division One
Ely City - relegated to Division One
Wivenhoe Town - relegated to Division One

The following 3 clubs joined the Premier Division before the season -

Long Melford - promoted from Division One
Saffron Walden Town - promoted from Division One
Swaffham Town - promoted from Division One

The following five clubs applied for promotion to Step 4:^[2] Godmanchester Rovers, Ipswich Wanderers, Mildenhall Town, Norwich United and Stanway Rovers.

League table


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Norwich United !Norwich United (C) (P)	38	32	2	4	90	30	+60	98	Promotion to 2016–17 Isthmian League Division One North
2	Godmanchester Rovers !Godmanchester Rovers	38	30	4	4	130	38	+92	94
3	Stanway Rovers !Stanway Rovers	38	28	6	4	102	38	+64	90
4	Felixstowe & Walton United !Felixstowe & Walton United	38	25	7	6	73	26	+47	82
5	Kirkley & Pakefield !Kirkley & Pakefield	38	22	7	9	78	44	+34	73
6	Mildenhall Town !Mildenhall Town	38	18	10	10	76	42	+34	64
7	Hadleigh United !Hadleigh United	38	16	7	15	62	58	+4	55
8	Saffron Walden Town !Saffron Walden Town	38	17	3	18	50	48	+2	54
9	Long Melford !Long Melford	38	16	5	17	63	58	+5	53
10	Clacton !Clacton	38	15	4	19	65	79	−14	49
11	Brantham Athletic !Brantham Athletic	38	14	5	19	56	62	−6	47
12	Haverhill Rovers !Haverhill Rovers	38	11	8	19	40	73	−33	41
13	Newmarket Town !Newmarket Town	38	11	6	21	58	90	−32	39
14	Walsham-le-Willows !Walsham-le-Willows	38	10	8	20	62	75	−13	38
15	Ipswich Wanderers !Ipswich Wanderers	38	9	11	18	54	76	−22	38
16	Gorleston !Gorleston	38	10	7	21	43	79	−36	37
17	Fakenham Town !Fakenham Town	38	10	6	22	45	84	−39	36
18	Swaffham Town !Swaffham Town	38	9	8	21	55	92	−37	35
19	Thetford Town !Thetford Town	38	9	6	23	57	98	−41	33
20	Whitton United !Whitton United (R)	38	6	4	28	39	108	−69	22	Relegation to Division One

Updated to games played on 30 April 2016.
Source: FA Full Time
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.

Results

Home ╲ Away	Brantham Athletic !BRA	Clacton !FCC	Fakenham Town !FAK	Felixstowe & Walton United !FEL	Godmanchester Rovers !GOD	Gorleston !GOR	Hadleigh United !HAD	Haverhill Rovers !HAV	Ipswich Wanderers !IPS	Kirkley & Pakefield !KIR	Long Melford !LOM	Mildenhall Town !MIL	Newmarket Town !NEW	Norwich United !NOR	Saffron Walden Town !SAF	Stanway Rovers !STA	Swaffham Town !SWA	Thetford Town !THE	Walsham-le-Willows !WAL	Whitton United !WHI
Brantham Athletic !Brantham Athletic		0–1	1–1	0–2	1–0	3–0	0–3	0–0	3–1	1–3	4–1	1–2	3–0	1–2	0–3	1–1	4–1	7–3	0–2	3–0
Clacton !Clacton	2–0		3–1	1–2	1–4	4–0	0–3	0–2	2–2	2–2	2–0	0–4	0–1	2–4	3–0	2–4	4–1	3–0	1–1	4–3
Fakenham Town !Fakenham Town	1–3	1–5		0–2	1–6	0–3	3–0	2–0	1–1	0–1	3–1	3–3	3–6	0–2	1–1	2–6	0–1	1–0	2–0	2–1
Felixstowe & Walton United !Felixstowe & Walton United	3–2	3–0	2–0		0–0	0–0	1–0	3–0	2–1	0–1	1–0	2–2	1–1	2–3	0–1	0–1	4–0	3–1	2–0	2–0
Godmanchester Rovers !Godmanchester Rovers	4–2	2–4	5–0	3–2		1–1	4–0	6–0	5–1	7–0	1–0	2–2	4–1	3–0	0–0	6–1	6–1	8–0	4–3	3–0
Gorleston !Gorleston	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–1	0–3		1–2	2–1	0–3	1–1	1–2	2–5	1–2	0–2	3–0	0–4	3–0	1–3	1–3	4–2
Hadleigh United !Hadleigh United	5–0	1–0	2–2	0–4	2–3	4–2		1–1	1–1	1–0	0–1	2–1	3–2	1–2	1–2	0–2	3–2	2–2	1–1	2–0
Haverhill Rovers !Haverhill Rovers	1–0	0–3	3–0	0–3	0–3	0–1	1–4		1–1	0–1	0–3	0–1	1–2	0–1	1–0	3–1	1–1	0–4	2–1	1–1
Ipswich Wanderers !Ipswich Wanderers	1–1	2–0	1–2	1–2	0–3	2–4	3–1	2–2		1–2	0–3	2–1	4–1	2–6	1–0	1–2	1–1	0–1	2–2	3–1
Kirkley & Pakefield !Kirkley & Pakefield	2–0	4–1	0–0	1–1	5–0	1–0	2–1	2–2	3–1		5–0	0–1	1–1	1–3	2–0	4–2	3–0	4–4	4–3	7–0
Long Melford !Long Melford	0–1	4–0	3–1	0–0	0–7	4–0	0–0	0–2	0–1	1–0		0–2	6–1	1–2	0–3	1–2	2–2	4–1	3–0	5–1
Mildenhall Town !Mildenhall Town	0–1	3–0	4–0	0–1	1–3	6–0	0–0	4–1	3–3	3–0	1–2		3–1	0–2	1–0	1–1	2–1	4–0	1–1	4–0
Newmarket Town !Newmarket Town	1–4	0–2	3–4	1–3	1–5	1–1	2–1	2–3	3–1	1–0	0–3	2–1		0–0	1–2	0–3	1–0	0–0	1–2	1–0
Norwich United !Norwich United	4–0	4–0	1–0	0–2	1–2	2–1	4–2	4–1	3–1	2–0	3–1	3–0	4–1		2–0	0–0	3–1	4–0	1–0	3–0
Saffron Walden Town !Saffron Walden Town	0–1	4–0	4–1	2–3	1–2	3–2	0–3	0–1	3–0	0–2	0–2	2–1	0–2	1–2		1–2	0–0	3–1	1–0	3–2
Stanway Rovers !Stanway Rovers	2–1	6–0	1–0	0–1	3–2	3–2	2–0	6–1	6–0	3–0	4–1	1–1	2–2	1–0	2–1		2–1	3–0	7–0	4–0
Swaffham Town !Swaffham Town	3–1	2–2	2–1	2–4	2–5	1–1	1–5	2–2	2–1	0–3	0–4	1–1	4–1	0–2	1–3	0–2		3–1	1–2	7–0
Thetford Town !Thetford Town	0–2	4–2	5–2	0–2	0–4	4–0	0–1	1–3	1–4	0–3	3–3	0–0	5–3	2–3	0–1	0–5	6–2		3–2	0–0
Walsham-le-Willows !Walsham-le-Willows	3–1	4–6	0–1	1–0	0–1	1–1	4–0	5–1	2–2	1–4	2–2	1–2	2–4	1–2	1–2	1–1	3–0	5–2		0–2
Whitton United !Whitton United	3–3	0–3	1–3	0–7	1–3	5–0	2–4	0–2	0–0	0–4	2–0	1–5	3–2	0–4	1–3	2–4	0–1	1–0	4–2

Updated to games played on 30 April 2016.
Source: FA Full Time
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Stadia and Locations

Brantham Athletic

Clacton

Fakenham Town

Felixstowe & Walton United

Locations of the 2015–16 Eastern Counties Football League Premier Division teams

Team	Stadium	Capacity
Brantham Athletic !Brantham Athletic	Brantham Leisure Centre	1,200
Clacton !Clacton	The Rush Green Bowl	3,000
Fakenham Town !Fakenham Town	Clipbush Park	2,000
Felixstowe & Walton United !Felixstowe & Walton United	Dellwood Avenue	2,000
Godmanchester Rovers !Godmanchester Rovers	Bearscroft Lane	1,050
Gorleston !Gorleston	Emerald Park	3,000
Hadleigh United !Hadleigh United	Millfield	3,000
Haverhill Rovers !Haverhill Rovers	New Croft	3,000
Ipswich Wanderers !Ipswich Wanderers	Humber Doucy Lane	1,000
Kirkley & Pakefield !Kirkley & Pakefield	Walmer Road	2,000
Long Melford !Long Melford	Stoneylands
Mildenhall Town !Mildenhall Town	Recreation Way	2,000
Newmarket Town !Newmarket Town	Cricket Field Road	2,750
Norwich United !Norwich United	Plantation Park	3,000
Saffron Walden Town !Saffron Walden Town	Catons Lane	2,000
Stanway Rovers !Stanway Rovers	Hawthorns	1,500
Swaffham Town !Swaffham Town	Shoemakers Lane
Thetford Town !Thetford Town	Mundford Road	1,500
Walsham-le-Willows !Walsham-le-Willows	Summer Road	1,000
Whitton United !Whitton United	King George V Playing Fields	1,000

Division One

Eastern Counties League Division One
Champions	Wivenhoe Town
Promoted	Wivenhoe Town Ely City Great Yarmouth Town

Division One consists of 19 clubs.^[1]

The following 3 clubs left Division One before the season -

Long Melford - promoted to Premier Division
Saffron Walden Town - promoted to Premier Division
Swaffham Town - promoted to Premier Division

The following 3 clubs joined Division One before the season -

Diss Town - relegated from Premier Division
Ely City - relegated from Premier Division
Wivenhoe Town - relegated from Premier Division

League table


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Wivenhoe Town !Wivenhoe Town (C) (P)	36	28	5	3	101	34	+67	89	Promotion to the Premier Division
2	Ely City !Ely City (P)	36	28	2	6	87	38	+49	86
3	Great Yarmouth Town !Great Yarmouth Town (P)	36	26	2	8	98	37	+61	80
4	Halstead Town !Halstead Town	36	24	3	9	78	49	+29	75
5	King's Lynn Town Reserves !King's Lynn Town Reserves	36	21	7	8	85	42	+43	70
6	Leiston Reserves !Leiston Reserves	36	19	2	15	86	69	+17	59
7	Diss Town !Diss Town	36	15	9	12	72	55	+17	54
8	Haverhill Borough !Haverhill Borough	36	15	7	14	65	55	+10	52
9	Woodbridge Town !Woodbridge Town	36	14	10	12	53	52	+1	52
10	A.F.C. Sudbury Reserves !A.F.C. Sudbury Reserves	36	15	7	14	55	55	0	52
11	March Town United !March Town United	36	16	2	18	68	65	+3	50
12	Braintree Town Reserves !Braintree Town Reserves	36	15	4	17	76	89	−13	49
13	Debenham LC !Debenham LC	36	11	8	17	56	73	−17	41
14	Stowmarket Town !Stowmarket Town	36	11	7	18	60	69	−9	40
15	Cornard United !Cornard United	36	9	5	22	42	73	−31	32
16	Downham Town !Downham Town	36	8	7	21	35	81	−46	31
17	Dereham Town Reserves !Dereham Town Reserves	35	7	4	24	40	85	−45	25
18	Team Bury !Team Bury	35	5	5	25	32	90	−58	20
19	Needham Market Reserves !Needham Market Reserves	36	5	2	29	42	120	−78	17

Results

Home ╲ Away	A.F.C. Sudbury Reserves !AFS	Braintree Town Reserves !BRA	Cornard United !COR	Debenham LC !DEB	Dereham Town Reserves !DER	Diss Town !DIS	Downham Town !DOW	Ely City !ELY	Great Yarmouth Town !GYT	Halstead Town !HAL	Haverhill Borough !HAV	King's Lynn Town Reserves !KLT	Leiston Reserves !LEI	March Town United !MAR	Needham Market Reserves !NEM	Stowmarket Town !STO	Team Bury !TBU	Wivenhoe Town !WIV	Woodbridge Town !WOO
A.F.C. Sudbury Reserves !A.F.C. Sudbury Reserves		2–3	1–0	1–1	1–0	1–2	1–2	2–3	2–1	3–2	2–3	0–0	6–0	0–7	8–1	2–0	0–0	1–6	3–0
Braintree Town Reserves !Braintree Town Reserves	2–0		1–2	2–3	2–3	4–3	0–0	0–4	0–3	1–3	5–0	2–0	1–2	3–1	2–0	3–2	1–1	0–6	3–3
Cornard United !Cornard United	0–2	2–4		1–3	1–4	1–3	0–1	0–3	3–2	0–4	2–0	1–3	0–3	0–1	2–1	0–0	3–3	0–4	0–0
Debenham LC !Debenham LC	1–1	2–1	3–0		1–2	0–7	5–0	0–3	0–3	1–3	1–1	1–0	1–6	3–0	0–3	2–2	4–0	2–4	1–1
Dereham Town Reserves !Dereham Town Reserves	0–1	1–6	1–3	2–2		0–2	0–1	1–5	0–3	1–3	0–4	1–2	1–2	2–1	3–3	1–2	4–1	0–5	1–2
Diss Town !Diss Town	0–1	9–2	1–1	5–1	3–0		1–0	3–3	1–0	1–3	1–1	1–1	1–1	2–3	3–1	2–1	0–1	1–1	1–1
Downham Town !Downham Town	2–2	2–1	2–1	0–0	1–2	0–4		2–2	2–3	2–3	0–3	2–2	0–5	1–4	1–1	0–1	2–2	0–3	3–1
Ely City !Ely City	5–2	6–1	2–1	3–2	3–2	2–1	3–0		0–1	1–0	1–0	1–3	4–1	1–0	4–0	2–1	2–1	2–0	1–0
Great Yarmouth Town !Great Yarmouth Town	2–0	5–1	5–1	0–3	2–0	3–0	0–1	5–2		1–1	4–1	3–1	6–1	5–2	9–0	3–2	1–0	0–0	2–0
Halstead Town !Halstead Town	2–0	4–0	3–1	3–2	3–0	4–1	3–0	1–5	0–3		2–2	1–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	3–2	5–2	2–3	2–1
Haverhill Borough !Haverhill Borough	1–4	3–4	4–0	2–0	1–1	2–1	5–0	0–2	0–2	0–1		1–1	4–0	1–5	1–0	3–0	5–0	2–3	0–1
King's Lynn Town Reserves !King's Lynn Town Reserves	4–1	4–1	3–2	0–0	2–0	5–2	2–0	0–1	2–1	0–2	2–1		3–1	2–1	7–1	2–2	6–0	4–0	4–0
Leiston Reserves !Leiston Reserves	0–1	5–3	1–0	4–2	3–0	3–1	4–0	1–2	0–4	4–1	1–2	4–0		2–4	5–2	7–0	5–0	0–5	1–2
March Town United !March Town United	0–1	2–2	1–0	2–1	5–2	1–3	4–2	0–2	0–2	0–1	1–1	2–4	3–1		3–2	3–1	2–0	1–3	1–2
Needham Market Reserves !Needham Market Reserves	1–2	0–3	0–3	1–5	0–4	0–1	5–1	0–2	2–6	0–3	3–4	1–10	1–4	1–2		2–1	2–0	0–4	0–2
Stowmarket Town !Stowmarket Town	0–0	2–3	0–3	2–0	7–0	1–1	1–4	4–1	0–1	5–1	2–3	2–0	0–3	4–0	4–1		1–2	2–2	1–0
Team Bury !Team Bury	1–0	0–5	0–1	1–2		1–2	4–1	0–3	3–4	0–3	0–3	1–3	2–3	0–3	6–3	0–1		0–4	0–0
Wivenhoe Town !Wivenhoe Town	2–0	2–3	2–2	1–0	1–0	3–0	2–0	1–0	4–3	2–1	1–0	2–2	2–1	4–1	2–1	6–1	3–0		2–1
Woodbridge Town !Woodbridge Town	1–1	2–1	2–5	2–0	1–1	2–2	1–0	2–1	2–0	4–2	1–1	0–1	4–1	3–2	2–3	3–3	3–0	1–2

Updated to games played on 30 April 2016.
Source: FA Full Time
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Stadia and Locations

Locations of the 2015–16 Eastern Counties Football League First Division teams

Team	Stadium	Capacity
A.F.C. Sudbury Reserves !A.F.C. Sudbury Reserves	King's Marsh	2,500
Braintree Town Reserves !Braintree Town Reserves	Cressing Road	4,202
Cornard United !Cornard United	Blackhouse Lane	2,000
Debenham LC !Debenham LC	Maitlands	1,000
Dereham Town Reserves !Dereham Town Reserves	Aldiss Park	3,000
Diss Town !Diss Town	Brewers Green Lane	2,500
Downham Town !Downham Town	Memorial Field	1,000
Ely City !Ely City	Unwin Sports Ground	1,500
Great Yarmouth Town !Great Yarmouth Town	Wellesley Recreation Ground	3,600
Halstead Town !Halstead Town	Rosemary Lane	1,000
Haverhill Borough !Haverhill Borough	New Croft (groundshare with Haverhill Rovers)	3,000
King's Lynn Town Reserves !King's Lynn Town Reserves	The Walks	5,733
Leiston Reserves !Leiston Reserves	Victory Road	2,500
March Town United !March Town United	The GER Sports Ground
Needham Market Reserves !Needham Market Reserves	Bloomfields	4,000
Stowmarket Town !Stowmarket Town	Greens Meadow	1,000
Team Bury !Team Bury	Ram Meadow	3,500
Wivenhoe Town !Wivenhoe Town	Broad Lane	2,876
Woodbridge Town !Woodbridge Town	Notcutts Park	3,000

References

1 2 "Senior Leagues Constitution 2015/16". Thurlow Nunn League. 20 June 2015. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
↑ "Promotion To Step 4". FA. 10 December 2015. Retrieved 10 December 2015.

External links

Eastern Counties Football League

Eastern Counties League

Premier Division	Brantham Athletic Ely City Fakenham Town FC Clacton Felixstowe & Walton United Godmanchester Rovers Gorleston Great Yarmouth Town Hadleigh United Haverhill Rovers Ipswich Wanderers Kirkley & Pakefield Long Melford Mildenhall Town Newmarket Town Saffron Walden Town Stanway Rovers Swaffham Town Thetford Town Walsham-le-Willows Wivenhoe Town

Division One	AFC Sudbury Reserves Braintree Town Reserves Coggeshall Town Cornard United Debenham LC Dereham Town Reserves Diss Town Downham Town Framlingham Town Halstead Town Haverhill Borough Holland King's Lynn Town Reserves Leiston Reserves March Town United Needham Market Reserves Stowmarket Town Team Bury Whitton United Wisbech St Mary Woodbridge Town

Seasons	2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17

2015–16 in English football

« 2014–15

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National teams

Senior (UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying round, finals)
U21 (UEFA Euro 2017 qualifying round)
U19 (UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying round, finals)
U17 (UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying round, finals)

League competitions

Level 1	Premier League

Levels 2–4	Football League (Championship, League One, League Two, play-offs)

Levels 5–6	National League (National, North, South)

Levels 7–8	Isthmian League (Premier, North, South) Northern Premier League (Premier, North, South) Southern League (Premier, Central, South & West)

Levels 9–10	Combined Counties League (Premier, First) East Midlands Counties League (level 10 only) Eastern Counties League (Premier, First) Essex Senior League (level 9 only) Hellenic League (Premier, East, West) Kent Invicta League (level 10 only) Midland League (Premier, First) Northern Counties East League (Premier, First) Northern League (First, Second) North West Counties League (Premier, First) Southern Combination League (First, Second) Southern Counties East League (level 9 only) South West Peninsula League Premier Division (level 10 only) Spartan South Midlands League (Premier, First) United Counties League (Premier, First) Wessex League (Premier, First) Western League (Premier, First) West Midlands (Regional) League (level 10 only)

Cup competitions

FA cups	FA Cup (Qualifying rounds, Final) FA Community Shield FA Trophy (Final) FA Vase (Final)

Football League cups	Football League Cup (Final) Football League Trophy (Final)

Youth competitions

Under 21	Professional U21 Development Leagues U21 Premier League Cup

Under 18	Professional U18 Development Leagues FA Youth Cup

Club seasons

Premier League	Arsenal Aston Villa Bournemouth Chelsea Crystal Palace Everton Leicester City Liverpool Manchester City Manchester United Newcastle United Norwich City Southampton Stoke City Sunderland Swansea City Tottenham Hotspur Watford West Bromwich Albion West Ham United

Championship	Birmingham City Blackburn Rovers Bolton Wanderers Brentford Brighton & Hove Albion Bristol City Burnley Cardiff City Charlton Athletic Derby County Fulham Huddersfield Town Hull City Ipswich Town Leeds United Middlesbrough Milton Keynes Dons Nottingham Forest Preston North End Queens Park Rangers Reading Rotherham United Sheffield Wednesday Wolverhampton Wanderers

League One	Barnsley Blackpool Bradford City Burton Albion Bury Chesterfield Colchester United Coventry City Crewe Alexandra Doncaster Rovers Fleetwood Town Gillingham Millwall Oldham Athletic Peterborough United Port Vale Rochdale Scunthorpe United Sheffield United Shrewsbury Town Southend United Swindon Town Walsall Wigan Athletic

League Two	Accrington Stanley AFC Wimbledon Barnet Bristol Rovers Cambridge United Carlisle United Crawley Town Dagenham & Redbridge Exeter City Hartlepool United Leyton Orient Luton Town Mansfield Town Morecambe Newport County Northampton Town Notts County Oxford United Plymouth Argyle Portsmouth Stevenage Wycombe Wanderers Yeovil Town York City

National League	Barrow Boreham Wood Chester Gateshead Grimsby Town Lincoln City Macclesfield Town Southport Torquay United Tranmere Rovers

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