2012–13 Eastern Counties Football League

Thurlow Nunn Eastern Counties Football League

Season	2012–13
Champions	Dereham Town
← 2011–12 2013–14 →

The 2012–13 Eastern Counties Football League season (known as the 2012–13 Thurlow Nunn Eastern Counties Football League for sponsorship reasons) is the 71st in the history of Eastern Counties Football League a football competition in England. The season originally due to end on 27 April 2013 was extended due to sustained bad weather to 4 May 2013.^[1]

Dereham Town were crowned champions on 27 April 2013 after a 5–0 win over FC Clacton.^[2]

Premier Division

Thurlow Nunn Eastern Counties Football League

Champions	Dereham Town
Promoted	Dereham Town
Relegated	none

Premier Division features 18 teams which competed in the division last season, along with two new teams:

• Godmanchester Rovers, promoted from the Eastern Counties Football League First Division.
• Thetford Town, promoted from Eastern Counties Football League First Division.

• For this season only, the FA were to promote a second club from two of the following six Step 5 leagues: Combined Counties League, Eastern Counties League, Essex Senior League, Kent League, Spartan South Midlands League and the Sussex County League. This was to fulfil the expansion of the Isthmian League Divisions One North and South from 22 to 24 clubs each.^[3] The two clubs were to be promoted on a points per game basis,^[4] and the two runners-up with the best PPG were VCD Athletic (Kent Football League) and Guernsey (Combined Counties League). Three others – Aylesbury United (Spartan South Midlands League), Redhill (Sussex County League) and Barkingside (Essex Senior League) – were also confirmed as promoted by the FA on 17 May, due to resignations and non-promotions elsewhere.

• From this league, only Brantham Athletic, Dereham Town, Haverhill Rovers, Stanway Rovers and Wisbech Town applied for promotion.^[5][6] Brantham later withdrew their application, and Wisbech withdrew theirs after securing the runners-up position at the end of the season.^[7]

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Dereham Town (C) (P)	38	28	3	7	85	35	+50	87	Promotion to 2013–14 Isthmian League Division One North
2	Wisbech Town	38	25	8	5	85	40	+45	83
3	Gorleston	38	23	8	7	91	37	+54	77
4	Brantham Athletic	38	22	7	9	85	50	+35	73
5	Godmanchester Rovers	38	19	10	9	76	49	+27	67
6	Walsham-le-Willows	38	19	8	11	71	59	+12	65
7	Mildenhall Town	38	19	7	12	66	54	+12	64
8	Hadleigh United	38	18	7	13	67	52	+15	61
9	Stanway Rovers	38	17	10	11	49	39	+10	61
10	Haverhill Rovers	38	16	7	15	73	59	+14	55
11	Ely City	38	15	7	16	71	63	+8	52
12	Kirkley & Pakefield	38	13	13	12	57	68	−11	52
13	Norwich United	38	14	6	18	55	52	+3	48
14	Felixstowe & Walton United	38	13	6	19	54	69	−15	45
15	Woodbridge Town	38	11	8	19	52	72	−20	41
16	Cambridge Regional College	38	9	8	21	56	83	−27	35
17	Diss Town	38	7	10	21	43	82	−39	31
18	Wivenhoe Town	38	6	8	24	30	85	−55	26
19	Thetford Town	38	6	6	26	41	85	−44	24
20	Clacton	38	4	5	29	44	118	−74	17

Updated to games played on 4 May 2013.
Source: Mitoo^[8]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results

Home ╲ Away

BRA

CRC

FCC

DER

DIS

ELY

FEL

GOD

GOR

HAD

HAV

KIR

MIL

NOR

STA

THE

WAL

WIS

WIV

WOO

Brantham Athletic

4–0

7–0

1–0

1–1

1–1

0–3

5–0

1–1

1–3

3–2

1–1

5–1

2–1

0–1

6–3

4–3

2–1

1–1

4–1

Cambridge Regional College

2–4

0–3

0–2

1–4

2–2

3–2

1–1

0–2

2–0

3–4

1–2

1–1

0–5

1–3

4–0

1–3

1–2

2–0

4–1

Clacton

0–4

2–2

0–4

0–2

2–5

2–2

1–6

0–3

1–4

3–2

0–1

0–3

0–2

2–2

1–1

3–2

1–2

2–1

1–2

Dereham Town

3–0

4–0

5–0

4–1

3–2

2–1

1–0

2–1

2–1

1–0

4–1

1–4

0–1

2–0

4–2

5–0

2–3

3–0

1–0

Diss Town

1–4

2–5

3–2

1–1

2–2

0–1

1–1

1–1

1–1

0–2

1–2

2–4

1–4

2–0

2–1

0–2

2–6

0–0

0–1

Ely City

1–2

2–1

4–2

1–2

2–1

4–0

2–3

2–0

1–3

2–1

2–2

1–2

2–0

1–0

4–1

1–1

1–2

4–1

0–2

Felixstowe & Walton United

3–3

3–3

4–1

0–2

2–0

2–0

0–2

0–2

0–4

3–2

3–3

1–1

0–2

0–1

0–2

1–2

1–0

2–0

2–1

Godmanchester Rovers

1–0

2–3

6–0

2–1

3–0

3–2

3–2

0–0

2–2

3–2

3–1

4–0

0–2

1–2

2–3

2–0

0–2

9–0

1–1

Gorleston

0–2

6–1

10–2

2–0

5–1

8–1

4–1

1–2

1–0

3–2

1–1

1–1

5–1

3–0

2–0

0–0

2–3

1–1

5–2

Hadleigh United

0–1

2–1

2–1

4–1

2–1

2–0

0–1

1–3

2–0

1–0

2–3

0–1

2–1

1–1

4–2

0–2

4–1

0–0

1–1

Haverhill Rovers

1–2

2–1

2–1

1–2

2–2

2–0

3–1

5–1

0–3

2–2

5–0

1–3

2–2

0–2

4–4

1–2

0–3

3–1

3–0

Kirkley & Pakefield

0–2

3–0

2–2

0–3

1–1

0–4

1–1

2–2

0–3

4–3

0–2

0–3

2–0

2–0

3–0

2–3

1–3

3–1

2–1

Mildenhall Town

0–1

2–0

4–1

1–3

5–2

1–1

3–2

1–2

1–2

1–2

0–0

4–3

2–1

1–2

4–2

0–3

0–3

4–0

2–1

Norwich United

3–1

0–2

2–1

0–1

0–3

1–3

3–0

1–1

1–2

2–0

0–1

0–1

1–2

0–2

1–2

2–1

0–0

4–0

1–1

Stanway Rovers

1–0

1–1

2–1

2–2

1–1

2–1

3–0

0–1

2–2

0–1

0–0

1–2

2–0

3–2

4–0

0–1

0–0

0–0

3–1

Thetford Town

1–1

0–2

1–0

1–1

0–1

1–2

0–1

0–2

1–2

1–3

1–2

1–1

0–1

0–1

0–1

1–2

1–5

1–1

2–0

Walsham-le-Willows

1–4

3–2

4–3

0–3

2–0

2–0

1–0

1–1

2–4

4–2

1–5

0–0

1–1

2–2

1–1

3–0

1–3

7–0

3–0

Wisbech Town

4–2

2–2

3–1

0–1

6–0

1–0

2–0

0–0

0–2

3–1

2–2

3–3

1–0

2–2

3–1

4–1

1–1

3–1

3–1

Wivenhoe Town

0–3

0–0

2–0

1–4

3–0

0–6

3–6

2–0

1–0

2–4

1–3

0–0

0–1

2–1

0–1

0–1

1–3

0–1

3–0

Woodbridge Town

4–0

2–1

5–2

1–3

2–0

2–2

1–3

1–1

0–1

1–1

0–2

2–2

1–1

1–3

3–2

4–3

3–1

0–2

2–1

Updated to games played on 4 May 2013.
Source: Mitoo^[9]
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Division One

Thurlow Nunn Eastern Counties Football League

Champions	Cambridge University Press
Promoted	Newmarket Town, Brightlingsea Regent
Relegated	Cambridge University Press

First Division features 14 teams which competed in the division last season, along with four new teams:

• Newmarket Town, relegated from the Eastern Counties Football League Premier Division.
• Great Yarmouth Town, relegated from Eastern Counties Football League Premier Division.
• Braintree Town Res.
• Saffron Walden Town, which did not compete in the 2011–12 season.

Newmarket Town achieved promotion to the Eastern Counties Football League Premier Division on the 13 April 2013.^[10] Cambridge University Press also achieved enough points to secure promotion on April 13, 2013 but will not be promoted as they withdrew from the league on April 6, 2013.^[11]

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Cambridge University Press (R)	34	25	7	2	94	32	+62	82	Resigning at the end of the season
2	Newmarket Town (P)	34	24	4	6	84	34	+50	76	Promotion to 2013–14 Eastern Counties Football League Premier Division
3	Brightlingsea Regent (P)	34	22	6	6	90	29	+61	72
4	Ipswich Wanderers	34	18	9	7	67	38	+29	63
5	Fakenham Town	34	19	6	9	62	37	+25	63
6	Saffron Walden Town	34	17	11	6	73	32	+41	62
7	Whitton United	34	17	6	11	87	46	+41	57
8	Braintree Town Reserves	34	18	3	13	86	65	+21	57
9	Swaffham Town	34	17	3	14	76	55	+21	54
10	Great Yarmouth Town	34	15	7	12	70	64	+6	52
11	Halstead Town	34	15	4	15	70	63	+7	49
12	Team Bury	34	13	6	15	62	72	−10	45
13	Long Melford	34	8	8	18	46	81	−35	031^#
14	March Town United	34	8	5	21	38	84	−46	028^#
15	Debenham LC	34	8	3	23	57	91	−34	27
16	Downham Town	34	8	3	23	41	84	−43	27
17	Stowmarket Town	34	5	4	25	41	100	−59	19
18	Cornard United	34	1	1	32	17	154	−137	4

Updated to games played on 4 May 2013.
Source: Mitoo^[12]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results

Home ╲ Away

BRA

BRI

CAM

COR

DEB

DOW

FAK

GYT

HAL

IPS

LOM

MAR

NEW

SAF

STO

SWA

TBU

WHI

Braintree Town Reserves

0–2

2–3

5–0

2–1

6–2

1–0

5–2

3–4

1–2

3–0

1–3

3–2

2–2

1–0

1–3

8–2

2–1

Brightlingsea Regent

2–3

1–0

3–0

6–2

2–2

1–1

1–2

5–1

4–2

3–1

1–2

2–0

1–1

4–0

2–1

2–1

2–0

Cambridge University Press

3–0

1–1

9–0

3–1

3–0

1–1

2–0

2–1

0–2

2–0

3–1

2–2

2–2

3–0

2–1

8–2

2–2

Cornard United

0–4

0–5

2–5

1–2

0–4

0–4

0–5

0–2

0–4

2–3

1–2

0–4

0–9

1–2

0–4

2–2

0–7

Debenham LC

2–6

0–4

0–4

14–0

1–4

1–2

6–4

2–1

1–1

4–0

2–2

1–2

0–2

1–1

1–0

1–2

1–3

Downham Town

4–2

1–1

0–1

3–1

4–1

0–4

2–1

0–2

1–2

1–3

2–3

1–3

1–1

3–2

0–2

0–4

0–3

Fakenham Town

3–2

2–1

0–0

4–0

1–2

2–0

1–1

0–3

1–1

5–0

3–0

0–2

1–3

2–0

2–1

3–0

1–0

Great Yarmouth Town

1–3

1–1

3–4

3–1

7–4

2–0

3–0

3–3

0–0

0–0

1–3

2–3

1–1

2–1

2–1

0–1

4–2

Halstead Town

2–3

0–2

0–1

7–0

3–0

4–1

2–1

2–3

0–2

6–0

3–0

3–4

1–0

2–1

1–1

1–3

0–5

Ipswich Wanderers

2–3

0–4

1–2

0–1

3–0

6–1

1–2

2–1

3–1

2–1

2–0

0–1

3–0

4–2

2–2

2–2

1–0

Long Melford

1–8

0–6

2–5

5–1

5–0

2–1

1–3

1–2

2–2

1–2

0–0

0–4

1–1

2–2

2–1

1–1

1–1

March Town United

1–1

1–6

1–2

2–1

2–0

1–2

1–2

1–2

0–3

0–4

0–3

0–1

2–3

1–0

1–6

0–6

3–3

Newmarket Town

1–1

0–1

0–2

4–0

4–2

1–0

4–4

5–1

3–0

1–1

1–0

3–0

0–1

7–0

4–0

4–1

2–0

Saffron Walden Town

3–0

1–0

1–1

6–1

1–0

3–0

0–1

0–1

4–0

1–1

2–1

4–1

1–2

6–0

3–1

4–0

0–0

Stowmarket Town

4–0

0–6

0–6

11–1

2–1

4–0

0–2

1–2

1–4

0–3

2–5

2–2

0–4

2–2

0–5

0–2

1–7

Swaffham Town

3–1

0–5

0–3

3–1

6–1

5–0

3–2

2–5

4–1

2–2

4–0

2–0

1–2

1–0

2–0

4–1

4–2

Team Bury

3–1

0–2

2–3

1–0

1–2

3–1

0–2

3–1

2–2

1–3

2–2

2–1

1–2

2–2

4–0

2–1

2–3

Whitton United

1–2

3–1

1–4

6–0

2–0

3–0

2–0

2–2

2–3

1–1

2–0

7–1

3–2

2–3

3–0

4–0

4–1

Updated to games played on 4 May 2013.
Source: Mitoo^[13]
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

References

1. "League Season Extended". thurlow-nunn league. Retrieved 30 March 2013.
2. "Dereham Town crowned champions". EDP. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
3. "National League System changes 2012-13 confirmed". The Onion Sack. 30 July 2012. Retrieved 19 September 2012.
4. "Step 4 application form". TheFA.com. 22 October 2012.
5. "Applications For Promotion - Step 5 To Step 4". The Official Website of The North West Counties Football League. 11 December 2012.
6. "Step 4 applications received". TheFA.com. 6 December 2012.
7. "Fenmen not going up but Spalding still could". Peterborough Telegraph. 30 April 2013. Retrieved 1 May 2013.
8. "Thurlow Nunn League - Premier League : League Table". mitoo.co.uk/. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
9. "Thurlow Nunn League : Premier Division : Fixtures & Results Grid". Mitoo. Retrieved 1 April 2013.
10. "PROMOTION CONFIRMED FOR NEWMARKET TOWN". Eastern Counties Football League. Retrieved 14 April 2013.
11. "CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS TO WITHDRAW FROM LEAGUE". Eastern Counties Football League. Retrieved 14 April 2013.
12. "Thurlow Nunn League : First Division : League Table". Mitoo. Retrieved 1 April 2013.
13. "Thurlow Nunn League : First Division : Fixtures & Results Grid". Mitoo. Retrieved 1 April 2013.

External links

• Eastern Counties Football League