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2012–13 United Counties League

football league season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ4628853 ↗
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The 2012–13 United Counties League season (known as the 2012–13 ChromaSport & Trophies United Counties League for sponsorship reasons) was the 106th in the history of the United Counties League, a football competition in England.

Premier Division

The Premier Division featured 17 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with four new clubs.

Clubs promoted from Division One:

Harborough Town

Huntingdon Town

Clubs relegated from the Northern Premier League:

Quorn

Shepshed Dynamo

From this league, only Quorn, St Ives Town and Spalding United applied for promotion.

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This entry incorporates text from “2012–13 United Counties League” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.