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The Hackney and Leyton Sunday Football League is a football competition based in London, England. It was founded in 1946 and operates under the jurisdiction of the London Football Association , the only English regional association founded by the FA .
The first Sunday League to be formed in England was the Edmonton & District Sunday Football League of North London in 1925. [2] The East London Sunday League followed in 1930, the Metropolitan Sunday League in 1934, the West Fulham in 1936 and the Essex Corinthian in 1937.
Sunday leagues do not form part of the hierarchical English football league system, but Sunday teams can opt to switch to Saturday play and potentially rise up the levels of the league system. The FA Sunday Cup is a national knock-out competition for English Sunday league football teams administered by the FA, which has been staged since 1964 ...
The Sunday Cup trophy was presented to the FA by the Shah of Iran as a gift to mark the centenary of the FA in 1963. It was created by Iranian silversmiths. [2] In the Cup's first season (1964–65), teams representing Sunday players in various counties entered with London winning the two-legged final 6–2 against Staffordshire. [1]
The club was reformed in 1955 and rejoined the Chorley Alliance League, winning the title in 1956–57, [3] before switching to the Preston & District League. They won the league in 1960–61 and went on to win three successive league titles between 1966–67 and 1968–69. [ 3 ]
The programme focuses on Football League clubs, was introduced for the 2004–05 season to replace the long-standing Sunday afternoon highlights programmes owing to cutbacks at ITV plc. August – Irish sports broadcaster Setanta Sports takes over from the BBC as the UK rights holder of the Scottish Premier League .
Sunday League may refer to: Sunday League (cricket), the precursor tournament to the National League in English cricket; Sunday league football, amateur football ...
On 10 August 2015 NBC Sports announced it had reached a six-year extension with the Premier League to broadcast the football league through the 2021–22 season. [ 30 ] [ 31 ] The value of the licensing deal rose by 100% with the deal estimated to be worth $1 billion (£640 million); double the previous value. [ 32 ]