East Riding County Football Association

The East Riding County Football Association is the governing body of football in the historic East Riding of Yorkshire (pre-1974), England. It runs a number of county cup competitions at different levels for its affiliated teams.

History and organisation
Before the formation of the County, football in the area was under the jurisdiction of a Hull & District FA and the Scarborough & East Riding FA.

On 10 February 1902, the Football Association issued ‘the Recommendations of a Commission appointed to enquire into the position of the Yorkshire Associations’. The recommendations came into effect on 1 May 1902 forming the new East Riding of Yorkshire FA – “the area to be the East Riding of York. The present Hull and District Association to change its name and take control of the area.”

During the last 100 years, the County has administered football in the area with the stewardship in the hands of volunteers, with a steady increase in the number of clubs, but very few landmarks – the foremost possibly being the introduction of Sunday football in the early fifties.

However, the FA led expansion of football at all levels has seen dramatic changes in recent years. For the first time an office was set up with full-time paid staff – previously being administered from officers’ homes.

The Association became a Limited Company in 1999 and in 2001 a full-time Football Development Officer appointed.

The ECRFA are in the process of completing their new Headquarters built at Inglemire Lane.

Men's Saturday Leagues

 * Humber Premier League
 * East Riding Amateur League
 * East Riding County League
 * Driffield and District League

Men's Sunday Leagues

 * Hull Sunday Men's League

Ladies and Girls Leagues

 * East Riding Women's League
 * East Riding Girls Football League

Youth Leagues

 * East Yorkshire Junior League
 * Hull Boys Sunday Football League

Other Leagues

 * Hull and District Veterans League
 * East Riding Pan Disability League

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Small Sided Leagues

 * Beverley Leisure Centre
 * Beverley Soccer Sixes
 * Bransholme Soccer Sixes (Champion Soccer)
 * Bridlington 5-a-side (Football Mundial)


 * Driffield Soccer Sixes (Champion Soccer)
 * Hull Corporate 6 a side (Football Mundial)
 * - Hull University
 * - Kelvin Hall High School


 * Hull City Fives
 * Hull Grassroots
 * North Ferriby Soccer Sixes (Champion Soccer)
 * Warners

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Disbanded or amalgamated leagues
Leagues that were affiliated to the East Riding County FA but have disbanded or amalgamated with other leagues include:


 * Driffield and District Minor League
 * East Riding Church League
 * South Holderness League

The East Riding County FA was founded in 1902, there was a ‘Scarborough and East Riding FA’ for 20 years before that.

THE EAST YORKSHIRE FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION WOLDS LEAGUE CUP 1902-03 WOLDS DISTRICT LEAGUE. A special meeting of the executive of the Wolds District (Association) League was held at Middleton, on

Saturday night, the Rev. F. Castallane in the chair. Mr. R. B. Soanes was elected hon. secretary, in the room of the Rev. J. Hare, who is leaving the district. Mr. Hugh Brooksbank, who has given a cup for competition, declined to have it named after him, and it was therefore decided to call it the Middleton and District Cup, The first round of the Cup-ties was to have been played on Saturday, but was postponed on account of the hard state of the ground.

Affiliated member clubs
Among the notable clubs that are affiliated to the East Riding County FA are:


 * Bridlington Town
 * Goole


 * Hall Road Rangers
 * Hessle Rangers


 * Hull City
 * Hull United


 * North Ferriby FC
 * Westella & Willerby

County Cup competitions
The East Riding County FA run the following Cup Competitions:


 * Alf Bolder Memorial Youth U16 Cup
 * David Whitton Memorial Trophy
 * ERCFA Women's Cup
 * Frank Varey/Dr Lilley U18s Cup
 * Intermediate Country Cup
 * Intermediate Cup


 * Junior Country Cup
 * President's Cup
 * Qualifying Country Cup
 * Qualifying Cup
 * Senior Country Cup
 * Senior Cup (Sponsored By Truckexport)


 * Tesco Cup – Under 13s Boys
 * Tesco Cup – Under 14s Girls
 * Tesco Cup – Under 16s Girls
 * Treasurer's Cup
 * Vice President's Cup

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List of recent East Riding County Cup Winners
Source – The "Country" cups are only open to those clubs outside the boundaries of the city of Hull.

Key officials

 * Adam Lowthorpe (Chief Executive)
 * Rachel Sullivan (Football Development Manager)
 * Steve Lazenby (Designated Safeguarding Officer)
 * Mark Brown (Referee Development Officer)