Eastern Counties Football League
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The Eastern Counties Football League is an English football league at Levels 9 and 10 of the English football league system. It contains teams from Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire, and is a feeder to the regional divisions of either the Isthmian League or the Southern League, depending on geographical considerations.
The league was founded in 1935, and ran as a single unit until a second division was created in 1988. The two division setup - the Premier Division and Division One - remains in place to this day.
A.F.C. Sudbury won the league four seasons in a row from 2001 to 2005, but had to settle for third place in the 2005-06 season behind Lowestoft Town who were winning the league for the eleventh time, but the first in 28 years.
Due to a sponsorship contract the league is currently known as the Ridgeons Football League. Prior to the 2004-05 season, again because of sponsorship, it was the Jewson Football League.
[edit] Recent champions
| Season | Premier Division | Division One |
| 1988-89 | Sudbury Town | Wroxham |
| 1989-90 | Sudbury Town | Cornard United |
| 1990-91 | Wisbech Town | Norwich United |
| 1991-92 | Wroxham | Diss Town |
| 1992-93 | Wroxham | Sudbury Wanderers |
| 1993-94 | Wroxham | Hadleigh United |
| 1994-95 | Halstead Town | Clacton Town |
| 1995-96 | Halstead Town | Gorleston |
| 1996-97 | Wroxham | Ely City |
| 1997-98 | Wroxham | Ipswich Wanderers |
| 1998-99 | Wroxham | Clacton Town |
| 1999-00 | Histon | Tiptree United |
| 2000-01 | A.F.C. Sudbury | Swaffham Town |
| 2001-02 | A.F.C. Sudbury | Norwich United |
| 2002-03 | A.F.C. Sudbury | Halstead Town |
| 2003-04 | A.F.C. Sudbury | Cambridge City reserves |
| 2004-05 | A.F.C. Sudbury | Ipswich Wanderers |
| 2005-06 | Lowestoft Town | Stanway Rovers |
