Northamptonshire Football Association

The Northamptonshire Football Association, also simply known as the Northamptonshire FA, is the governing body of football in the English county of Northamptonshire.

Organisation
The purpose of the Northamptonshire FA is to lead the successful development of football within the county and to increase the participation, quality and enjoyment of football.

The Northamptonshire FA's strategy sets out the vision, key priorities and targets for investment into grassroots football from 1 July 2008 until 30 June 2012. The strategy contributes to the delivery of The FA's National Game Strategy over a four-year period.

The Northamptonshire FA football development team provide support and guidance to aid development in the game, whatever an organisation or person's role may be. Whereas the football governance team are involved in the day to day running of key areas such as the administration of clubs, leagues and referees along with the running of the discipline process, county competitions and the representative teams.

Men's Saturday Leagues

 * United Counties League**
 * Peterborough and District League**
 * Northamptonshire Combination Football League**
 * Northampton Town Football League**

Footnote: **Part of the English football league system.

Men's Sunday Leagues

 * Daventry & District Sunday League
 * Kettering Area Sunday League
 * Northants Sunday Combination
 * Northants Sunday Conference
 * Peterborough & District Sunday League]
 * Peterborough Sunday Morning League
 * Rushden & District Sunday League

Ladies and Girls Leagues

 * Northamptonshire Women's and Girls' Football League

Youth Leagues

 * Countywide U18 Football League
 * Kettering Weetabix Youth League
 * Northampton & District Youth Alliance
 * Northants Senior Youth League
 * Peterborough & District Junior Alliance
 * Peterborough & District Youth League
 * Peterborough Mini-Soccer Conference League

Other Leagues

 * Northamptonshire Disability League

Small Sided Leagues

 * Champion Soccer
 * Football Mundial
 * Ladies Leagues
 * Robert Windle Tournaments

Futsal Leagues

 * Northamptonshire FA Youth Futsal League

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Disbanded or Amalgamated Leagues
A number of leagues that were affiliated to the Northamptonshire FA have disbanded or amalgamated with other leagues including:


 * Central Northants Combination (in 1991 became the Northamptonshire Combination League)
 * Central Village League (merged with the Mid Northants League in 1953 to become the Northamptonshire Combination League)
 * East Northants League (later known as the Rushden & District League)
 * Kettering Amateur League (became the East Midlands Alliance)
 * Mid Northants League (merged with the Central Village League in 1953 to become the Northamptonshire Combination League)
 * Northamptonshire League (abbreviated Northants League and eventually became the United Counties League)
 * Rushden & District League (previously known as the East Northants League)
 * South East Northants League

Affiliated Member Clubs
Among the notable clubs that are (or were at one time) affiliated to the Northamptonshire FA are: • Football League:

• Peterborough United

• Northampton Town

• Step 2:

• Brackley Town

• Peterborough Sports

• Step 3:

• Kettering Town

• Step 4:

• Corby Town

• AFC Rushden & Diamonds

• Wellingborough Town

• Step 5:

• Cogenhoe United

• Daventry Town

• Desborough Town

• Northampton ON Chenecks

• Northampton Sileby Rangers

• Rothwell Corinthians

• Wellingborough Whitworth

• Step 6:

• Bugbrooke St. Michaels

• Burton Park Wanderers

• Irchester United

• Long Buckby

• Raunds Town

• Rushden & Higham United

• Stewarts & Lloyds Corby

• Thrapston Town

• Step 7:

• James King Blisworth

• Woodford United

• Defunct Clubs:

• Daventry United (formerly Ford Sports Daventry)

• Irthlingborough Diamonds (became Rushden & Diamonds)

• Northampton Spencer

• Rothwell Town

• Rushden & Diamonds

• Rushden Town (became Rushden & Diamonds)

Other member clubs include:

• AFC Wombles

• Brixworth All Saints

• Burton United

• Clipston

• Cold Ashby Rovers

• Corby Eagles

• Corby Everards

• Corby Hellenic Fisher

• Corby Khalsa

• Corby Kingswood

• Corby Locomotives

• Corby Morton Vikings

• Corby Pegasus

• Corby Redstar

• Corby Strip Mills

• Corby United

• Cripps

• CSV United

• Dainite Sports

• Daventry Comms

• Daventry Drayton Grange

• Delapre Old Boys

• Denton

• Earls Barton United

• FC Crispin

• FC Higham

• Ferrers

• Finedon Volta

• Great Doddington

• Gretton

• Harpole

• Heyford Athletic

• Higham Town

• Hillmorton

• Hometech

• Islip United

• Kettering Ise Lodge

• Kettering Nomads

• Kettering Ochard Park United

• Kettering Orchard Park

• Kettering Panthers

• Kettering Park Rovers

• Kettering Weekley Eagles

• Kislingbury

• Medbourne

• Mereway United

• Milton

• Moulton

• Northampton Exiles

• Northampton Harlequins

• Northamptonshire Police

• Obelisk United

• Oundle Town

• Ringstead Rangers

• Ristee Towers

• Roade FC

• Rosebery

• SPA

• Spinney Hill

• Spratton

• Stanion United

• Stanwick Rovers

• Swan and Helmet FC

• Thorplands Club

• Thorplands United

• Walgrave Amber

• Weedon

• Weldon United

• Welford Victoria

• Wellingborough Old Grammarians

• Wellingborough Ranelagh

• Wellingborough Rising Sun

• Wellingborough Saxon

• West Haddon

• Wilbarston

• Wilby

• Wollaston Victoria

• Wootton St. George

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County Cup Competitions
The Northamptonshire FA run the following Cup Competitions:

• Northamptonshire Cup (The Maunsell Cup)

• Northamptonshire Senior Cup (The Hillier Senior Cup)

• Northamptonshire Junior Cup (The Les Underwood Junior Cup)

• Northamptonshire Lower Junior Cup

• Northamptonshire Area Cup (The Twenty10 Digital Area Cup)

• Northamptonshire Sunday Cup

• Northamptonshire Sunday Trophy

• Northamptonshire Sunday Vase

• Northamptonshire Sunday Shield

• Northamptonshire Veterans Cup

• Northamptonshire Women's Cup

• Northamptonshire Boys U18 Cup

• Northamptonshire Boys U16 Invitation Cup

• Northamptonshire Boys U14 Invitation Cup

• Northamptonshire Boys U12 Invitation Cup

• Northamptonshire Girls U16 Invitation Tesco Cup

• Northamptonshire Girls U14 Invitation Tesco Cup Source

Northamptonshire Cup
The Northamptonshire Cup (known as The Maunsell Cup) is a county cup competition involving senior teams affiliated to the Northamptonshire Football Association.

Northamptonshire Senior Cup
The Northamptonshire Senior Cup (renamed The Hillier Senior Cup in 1981) is a county cup competition involving senior teams affiliated to the Northamptonshire Football Association.

List of Northamptonshire Junior Cup Winners
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List of Northamptonshire Lower Junior Cup Winners
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List of Northamptonshire Area Cup Winners
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