North Leigh F.C.
association football club in North Leigh, England
North Leigh Football Club is a football club based in North Leigh, Oxfordshire, England. They are currently members of the Combined Counties League Premier Division North and play at the Eynsham Hall Park Sports Ground.
History
The club was established in 1908 and became members of the Witney & District League. They won the Division Two title, the Ted Young Senior Challenge Cup and the Watts Junior Challenge Cup in 1947–48, before winning the Fred Ford Memorial Cup the following season. In 1950–51 the club were champions of the Premier Division. They won the league again in 1952–53 and went on to win it in each of the next four seasons, also winning the Ted Young Senior Challenge Cup in 1951–52, 1953–54, 1954–55 and 1956–57 and the Oxfordshire Junior Shield in 1956–57. The club then moved up to the Oxfordshire Senior League. However, they later returned to the Witney & District League and were Division Two champions in 1968–69.
Another successful spell in the 1980s saw North Leigh win the Witney & District League Premier Division title and the Oxfordshire Junior Shield in 1983–84, before winning five consecutive Premier Division titles between 1985–86 and 1989–90. They then moved up to Division One of the Hellenic League in 1990.
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