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The Wessex League was founded in 1986 to provide a higher standard of
football in and within fifty miles of the 1974 county boundaries of Hampshire
and the Isle of Wight. The Hampshire
Football Association administered the League until 1990, when it gained
control of its own affairs. Since the formation of the League eight clubs
have achieved promotion to the Southern League.
It is managed by
a committee, which meets monthly consisting of independent officers and club
representatives, all elected at the Annual General Meeting and also life
members.
The League has
three Divisions (Divisions One, Two and Three) of twenty-two clubs each and
East and West Combination Divisions each of seventeen clubs and a fourteen
club Combination Division Two for Season 2004/2005. These clubs are located
in Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Dorset, Berkshire and
Wiltshire and extend to Portland in
the west, Newbury to the north, Cowes (Isle
of Wight) to the south and Hayling Island to
the east. The Dorset Premier Football League will continue as a feeder league
to the Sydenhams Wessex League Division Two.
The Wessex
League is a member of the Southern League Joint Liaison Committee and a
Wessex League Joint Liaison Committee was set up during season 1990/1991.
The League was sponsored during its first three seasons by Medisport
and then for many years by Jewson; rival builders’ merchants Sydenhams took
over as sponsors at the start of the 2003/2004 season.
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