Southern Amateur League
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The Southern Amateur League is one of the largest in the World. It has nearly 20 divisions, but only 33 clubs! Each of the 33 clubs enters it's first team in the Senior Section (split into three divisions), a reserve team in the Intermediate Section and a third team in the Junior Section. Below that, a Minor section caters for fourth and lower teams. Teams can get promoted and relegated within their Section, but not across Sections. The F.C.H.D. currently only includes the three divisions of the Senior Section.
The league maintains a strict amateur ethos, many of its clubs are "Old Boys" clubs from long-established schools, or are representative teams from our major banks. Teams have to play teams in a strict heirarchical order of strength, with league titles witheld if the league is convinced that a club has strengthened one of it's teams in a lower division at the expense of a team in a higher division.
The league sits outside the National League System, but a representative side does compete in the FA Inter-League cup against teams from within the NLS, and some individual clubs do compete in local competitions against teams from within the NLS. No clubs from the SAL currently compete in the main FA club competitions, the last to do so were West Wickham in 1996. West Wickham also share the record for the best FA Vase performance from an SAL side when they reached the third round in 1987-88, thus equalling Norsemen's performance in 1982-83.
The League has an excellent website at http://www.southernamateurleague.co.uk/
| Season | One | Two | Three |
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| 1982-83 | Crouch End Vampires | Lensbury | Barclays Bank |
| 1983-84 | Winchmore Hill | Old Stationers | Old Salesians |
| 1984-85 | West Wickham | Old Salesians | Old Actonians Association |
| 1985-86 | National Westminster Bank | Old Actonians Association | Ibis |
| 1986-87 | West Wickham | Old Parkonians | Brentham |
| 1987-88 | West Wickham | Old Actonians Association | Merton |
| 1988-89 | West Wickham | Midland Bank | East Barnet Old Grammarians |
| 1989-90 | West Wickham | Carshalton | Southgate Olympic |
| 1990-91 | West Wickham | Old Bromleians | Alexandra Park |
| 1991-92 | Old Actonians Association | Crouch End Vampires | Lensbury |
| 1992-93 | National Westminster Bank | Lensbury | Old Latymerians |
| 1993-94 | South Bank Polytechnic | East Barnet Old Grammarians | Old Parmiterians |
| 1994-95 | South Bank | Carshalton | Old Lyonians |
| 1995-96 | Old Actonians Association | Old Parmiterians | Old Salesians |
| 1996-97 | Old Parmiterians | Lloyds Bank | Midland Bank |
| 1997-98 | Norsemen | National Westminster Bank | Old Stationers |
| 1998-99 | Old Actonians Association | Old Bromleians | Alleyn Old Boys |
| 1999-00 | Old Actonians Association | Alleyn Old Boys | Broomfield |
| 2000-01 | Old Actonians Association | Broomfield | Old Lyonians |
| 2001-02 | Old Owens | Old Salesians | Nottsborough |
| 2002-03 | Old Salesians | Winchmore Hill | Bank of England |
| 2003-04 | Old Esthameians | Nottsborough | Kew Association |
| 2004-05 | Broomfield | East Barnet Old Grammarians | Old Wilsonians |
| 2005-06 | Old Owens | Alleyn Old Boys | Merton |
| 2006-07 | Nottsborough | Polytechnic | South Bank Cuaco |
| 2007-08 | West Wickham | Old Esthameians | Old Parkonians |
| 2008-09 | Nottsborough | Broomfield | Lloyds TSB Bank |
| 2009-10 | Nottsborough | East Barnet Old Grammarians | Old Parkonians |
| 2010-11 | Nottsborough | Norsemen | Old Westminster Citizens |
The Southern Amateur archive website contains a full set of league tables for all divisions of the league, but we are not aware of the tables being published in book form.
Please acknowledge the F.C.H.D. when using this information elsewhere