Many clubs are contacting the wrong person at their opponents to confirm fixtures, postponements or the inability to fulfil fixtures. Section 6 of the “Notes to Secretaries” in the handbook and on the website states:- Where the term “Secretary” in relation to a club officer is used within the rules, this can be taken as Read More

In the Essex Premier Cup, the EOFL have 7 teams through to the quarter finals to be drawn on Wednesday 17 January 2018 Old Southendian pulled off a shock winning 3 – 1 at Frenford. Shenfield A.F.C. visited Little Oakley Reserves and went through after a 1 – 0 extra time win. Catholic United won Read More

13 January Postponed Matches As Mark Lisher is still away, your League Referees Secretary contact will be Kevin Pratt and/or Mark Irvine if your match is postponed Confirming Fixtures or Postponed Matches As item 6 in Notes To Secretaries Where the term “Secretary” in relation to a club officer is used within the rules this Read More

The following e-mail has been sent out to all clubs in our Constitution by the League Secretary Dear Clubs, You will be aware that for some time we have been in dialogue with the Mid-Essex Football League concerning the issues impacting open-age football. More recently the Southend Borough & District Combination Football League has joined Read More

PLAYER SHIRT NUMBERS Clubs are asked to ensure that players are wearing the correctly numbered shirts as shown on the team sheet. (Rule 10 (J)). We recently had a case where, when sending off a player, the referee took the players number and did not ask his name. Unfortunately the players was wearing the wrong Read More

The fixtures up to and including 20 January 2018 are now available on the website and will shortly be sent out to all parties via Full Time. Barring any errors, which clubs will of course immediately inform the League Fixtures Secretary about, the only changes should be as a result of adverse weather conditions causing Read More

Some time ago the League recommended that when clubs sign a new player on they check with Robert Craven at the ECFA that the player is not suspended. Given that the WGS system cannot be relied upon show every player that is suspended, the League have sought other methods of finding this information out. Hidden Read More

The fixtures for December are now available on the website and have been notified to all clubs. On 09 October a note was placed on the website reminding clubs of the date by which December dates could be closed. In addition clubs have had since June to find out if their pitches are unavailable over Read More

The action that need to be taken, and who has to take it, is laid out within Rule 10 (F) iii and is clarified below in accordance with information received from the ECFA. 1. IF A TEAM CANNOT FULFIL A FIXTURE. Rule 10 (F) iii paragraph 1 covers this eventuality and it is the TEAM Read More

Over the next few weekends there a lot of county and other competitions not under the jurisdiction of our League. You are therefore reminded of the following regarding the sending in of results for these matches by SMS to Full Time IN MATCHES WHERE BOTH TEAMS OR THE HOME TEAM ARE FROM OUR LEAGUE THE Read More