Huddersfield And District Association Football League
The Huddersfield and District Association League is a football competition based in the area Huddersfield, England. It was founded in 1898. The league has a total of four senior divisions and four reserve divisions. The highest senior division, Division One, sits at level 14 of the English football league system and is a feeder to the West Riding League. The reserve divisions are not part of the league system.
The league currently has 52 teams during the 2012–13 season with Hepworth United being the current champions of the First Division. Scholes, Dalton Crusaders and Moldgreen Conservatives are the current champions of Divisions Two, Three and Four, respectively.
The most successful team in a single division since 2000, is Brackenhall United with 4 championships from 2000 to 2003. The most successful team in all divisions is Newsome WMC, with 5 championships starting in the now-defunct Division 5 during the 1999–2000 season and ending with the Division 1 championship during the 2006–07 season. Newsome again won the First Division title in the 2009–10 season.
Read more about Huddersfield And District Association Football League: History, Member Clubs 2012–13, Champions
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