Spartan League

The Spartan League was an English football league covering London and adjacent counties.

Formed in 1907, the league was along with the Isthmian League and the Athenian League, one of the strong amateur competitions in the South, with three clubs reaching the FA Amateur Cup semi-finals. However, neither Metropolitan Police (in 1933–34), Maidenhead United (1935–36) or Briggs Sports (1953–54) were able to win the Cup.

With membership numbers dropping, in 1975 the league merged with the London League. The new competition was originally called the London Spartan League, but the name reverted to just the Spartan League in 1987.

A further merger came in 1997, when the South Midlands League were the other party, together forming the Spartan South Midlands League.

Spartan South Midlands League
Premier Division
  • Ampthill Town
  • AFC Dunstable
  • Aylesbury United
  • Berkhamsted
  • Biggleswade United
  • Colney Heath
  • Dunstable Town
  • Hadley
  • Hanwell Town
  • Harefield United
  • Haringey Borough
  • Hatfield Town
  • Hertford Town
  • Hillingdon Borough
  • Holmer Green
  • Leverstock Green
  • London Colney
  • London Tigers
  • Oxhey Jets
  • St. Margaretsbury
  • Stotfold
  • Tring Athletic
Division One
  • Amersham Town
  • Bedford
  • Buckingham Athletic
  • Chesham United Reserves
  • Cockfosters
  • Codicote
  • Cranfield United
  • Crawley Green
  • Harpenden Town
  • Hoddesdon Town
  • Kentish Town
  • Kings Langley
  • Langford
  • London Lions
  • New Bradwell St. Peter
  • Southall
  • Stony Stratford Town
  • Sun Postal Sports
  • Welwyn Garden City
  • Winslow United
  • Wodson Park
Division Two
  • Aston Clinton
  • Aylesbury Reserves
  • Broxbourne Borough
  • Caddington
  • Hale Leys United
  • Kent Athletic
  • Mursley United
  • Old Bradwell United
  • Pitstone & Ivinghoe
  • Risborough Rangers
  • The 61
  • Totternhoe
  • Tring Corinthians
  • Wolverton Town
Seasons
  • 2012–13
  • Predecessor leagues: Aetolian League
  • Greater London League
  • London League
  • Metropolitan League
  • Metropolitan–London League
  • South Midlands League
  • Spartan League


Famous quotes containing the words spartan and/or league:

    “But there’s another knowledge that my heart destroys
    As the fox in the old fable destroyed the Spartan boy’s
    Because it proves that things both can and cannot be;
    That the swordsmen and the ladies can still keep company;
    Can pay the poet for a verse and hear the fiddle sound,
    That I am still their servant though all are underground.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Half a league, half a league,
    Half a league onward,
    All in the valley of Death
    Rode the six hundred.
    “Forward the Light Brigade!”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)