London 3 Eastern Counties

London 3 Eastern Counties
Current season or competition:: *2017–18 London 3 Eastern Counties*

Sport	Rugby union
Instituted	2017 (2017)
Number of teams	12
Country	England
Website	englandrugby.com

London 3 Eastern Counties is an English rugby union league that is at the eighth level of the English rugby union system and is available to club sides based in Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk (Eastern Counties). Promoted clubs move up to London 2 North East while relegated teams drop to Eastern Counties 1, with new teams also coming up from this league.

The division was created for the 2017-18 as part of an RFU reorganization of the London & South East regional league. Originally there had been a London 3 North East league which had involved teams from the Eastern Counties as well as Essex and parts of north-east London. Due to the distances involved for teams travelling potentially from London to Norfolk and vice versa, at the end of the 2016-17 season, this league was discontinued. Teams in Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk who had played in London 3 North East were transferred into the new look London 3 Eastern Counties 3 along with additional promoted teams from Eastern Counties 1, while the Essex and London sides went into another new division called London 3 Essex.

Participating Teams 2017-18

Team	Ground	City/Area	Previous season
Crusaders	Beck Hythe	Little Melton, Norwich, Norfolk	Promoted from Eastern Counties 1 (3rd)
Ely	Downham Road	Ely, Cambridgeshire	5th (London 3 North East)
Holt	Bridge Road	Holt, Norfolk	Relegated from London 2 North East (11th)
Lowestoft & Yarmouth	Gunton Park	Corton, Lowestoft, Suffolk	11th (London 3 North East)
Newmarket	NSDA Pavillion	Newmarket, Suffolk	Promoted from Eastern Counties 1 (4th)
Southwold	The Common	Southwold, Suffolk	4th (London 3 North East)
Stowmarket	Chilton Fields	Stowmarket, Suffolk	6th (London 3 North East)
Thetford	Mundford Road	Thetford, Norfolk	Promoted from Eastern Counties 1 (champions)
West Norfolk	Gatehouse Lane	North Wootton, King's Lynn, Norfolk	9th (London 3 North East)
Wisbech	Chapel Road	Wisbech, Cambridgeshire	Promoted from Eastern Counties 1 (6th)
Woodbridge	Heatherlands	Woodbridge, Suffolk	Promoted from Eastern Counties 1 (5th)
Wymondham	The Foster Harrison Memorial Ground	Wymondham, Norfolk	Promoted from Eastern Counties 1 (runners up)

Crusaders

Ely

Holt

Lowestoft & Yarmouth

Newmarket

Southwold

Stowmarket

Thetford

West Norfolk

Wisbech

Woodbridge

Wymondham

Locations of the 2017–18 London 3 Eastern Counties teams