The Combined Counties Football League is a regional men's football league with members in Berkshire, Hampshire, Middlesex, Surrey, and the south-western quarter of Greater London featuring mostly semi-professional clubs. It is sponsored by Cherry Red Records, and therefore officially known as the Cherry Red Records Combined Counties Football League.
The Isthmian League is a regional men's football league covering London, East and South East England featuring mostly semi-professional clubs. It is known as the BetVictor Isthmian League for sponsorship reasons.
The Southern League, currently known as the BetVictor Southern League under the terms of a sponsorship agreement with BetVictor, is a men's football competition featuring semi-professional clubs from the South West, 'South Central' and Midlands of England and South Wales. Together with the Isthmian League and the Northern Premier League it forms levels seven and eight of the English football league system.
The English football league system, also known as the football pyramid, is a series of interconnected leagues for men's association football clubs in England, with five teams from Wales, one from Guernsey and one from Jersey also competing. The system has a hierarchical format with promotion and relegation between leagues at different levels, allowing even the smallest club the theoretical possibility of ultimately rising to the very top of the system. There are more than 140 individual leagues, containing more than 480 divisions.
Non-League football describes football leagues played outside the top leagues of a country. Usually it describes leagues which are not fully professional. The term is primarily used for football in England, where it describes football played at a level below that of the Premier League and the three divisions of the English Football League. The term non-League was commonly used well before 1992 when the top football clubs in England all belonged to The Football League ; all clubs who were not a part of The Football League were therefore 'non-League' clubs. The term can be confusing as the vast majority of non-league football clubs in England play in a type of league. Currently, a non-League team would be any club playing in the National League and below and therefore would not play in the EFL Cup.
The FA Women's National League is a Football Association-branded league and is run by an elected management committee. It sits at step 3 and 4 of the Women's Pyramid of Football pyramid in England, supporting and underpinning the Women's Super League (WSL) and the Women's Championship.
Women's football has been played in England for over a century, sharing a common history with the men's game as the country in which the Laws of the Game were codified.
College ice hockey is played in Canada and the United States, though leagues exist outside North America.
Manchester City Women's Football Club are an English women's football club based in Manchester who play in the FA Women's Super League. They are affiliated with Manchester City F.C. who play in the Premier League.
The North Hockey Association runs hockey leagues based in the North of England. It feeds teams into the Men's and Women's England Hockey Leagues and takes teams from sub-regional (county) leagues, such as the Yorkshire Hockey Association.
West Ham United Women Football Club is an English women's football club affiliated with West Ham United. They were formed in 1991 and play home games at Rush Green Stadium, at the West Ham United Training Ground in Romford.
The Midland Regional Hockey Association is the organising body for field hockey in the Midlands, England. It feeds teams into the Men's and Women's England Hockey Leagues and receives teams from regional and county leagues.
Duchy Hockey Club is a Cornish field hockey team based in Redruth, Cornwall, UK. As of 2018–19 the club are currently the newest hockey club in Cornwall, having been formed in January 2009. Duchy are the only hockey club based in the Camborne/Redruth conurbation. The club caters for both male and female players.
Surbiton Hockey Club is a field hockey club based in Long Ditton, Surrey, England. The club is one of the oldest hockey clubs in the world, being established in 1874. The home ground is based in Long Ditton, at Sugden Road. The club is currently the leading club in England with the women's team winning the league for five years in succession and the men's team winning the last two titles.
Reading Football Club Women is an English women's football club affiliated with Reading FC. The club currently play in the FA WSL. The club played in the FA Women's Premier League National Division after being promoted from the FA Women's Premier League Southern Division, which they were relegated to at the end of the 2011–12 season. They had previously won promotion to the National Division from the Southern Division in 2009–10. They gained entry to an expanded FA WSL in 2014.
England Roller Hockey, which originated in England, is a game played on roller-skates with a ball and stick. It was first played at The Lava Rink in Denmark Hill, London in 1885. The National Rink Hockey Association of England (NRHA) is the roller hockey governing body in England.
West Hockey Association runs field hockey leagues based in the West of England and South West of England. The leagues feed teams into the Men's and Women's England Hockey Leagues and receives teams from sub-regional (county) leagues.
The East Regional Hockey Association is the organising body for field hockey in the East of England. It feeds teams into the Men's and Women's England Hockey Leagues and takes teams from sub-regional leagues.
The Women's England Hockey League is a field hockey league organised by England Hockey that features women's teams from England. It is currently sponsored by Investec and as a result is also referred to as the Investec Women's Hockey League.
