The 2015–16 Northern Counties East Football League season was the 34th in the history of the Northern Counties East Football League, a football competition in England.
For the first time, a series of Division 1 play-offs will decide a third promotion winner to the Premier Division.
Premier Division
The Premier Division featured 18 clubs which competed in the previous season, along with four new clubs. Clubs promoted from Division One: Clipstone Pontefract Collieries Clubs relegated from the Northern Premier League: Brigg Town Rainworth Miners Welfare
League table
Results
Stadia and locations
ClubStadiumAlbion SportsThrostle NestArmthorpe WelfareWelfare GroundAthersley RecreationSheerien ParkBarton Town Old BoysEuronics GroundBridlington TownQueensgateBrigg TownThe HawthornsCleethorpes TownBradley Football CentreClipstoneClipstone RoadGarforth TownWheatley ParkHandsworth ParramoreSandy LaneLiversedgeClayborn GroundMaltby MainMuglet LaneNostell Miners WelfareThe Welfare GroundParkgateRoundwood Sports ComplexPickering TownRecreation ClubPontefract CollieriesSkinner LaneRainworth Miners WelfareWelfare GroundRetford UnitedCannon ParkStaveley Miners WelfareInkersall RoadTadcaster AlbionIngs LaneThackleyDennyfieldWorksop TownSandy Lane
Division One
Division One featured 19 clubs which competed in the previous season, along with three new clubs: Glasshoughton Welfare, relegated from the Premier Division Hull United, promoted from the Humber Premier League Westella & Willerby, promoted from the Central Midlands Football League
League table
Play-offs
Semi-finals
Final
Results
Stadia and locations
ClubStadiumBottesford TownBirch ParkDronfield TownStonelow GroundEccleshill UnitedKings WayAFC EmleyThe Welfare GroundGlasshoughton WelfareGlasshoughton CentreGrimsby BoroughBradley Football CentreHall Road RangersHowarth ParkHallamSandygate RoadHemsworth Miners WelfareFitzwilliam StadiumHull UnitedCraven ParkKnaresborough TownManse LaneLincoln Moorlands RailwayLincoln Moorlands ClubAFC MansfieldForest Town StadiumPenistone ChurchChurch View RoadRossington MainWelfare GroundSelby TownRichard StreetShirebrook TownLangwith RoadTeversalTeversal GrangeWestella & WillerbyEuronics GroundWinterton RangersWest StreetWorsbrough Bridge AthleticPark RoadYorkshire AmateurBracken Edge
League Cup
The 2015–16 Northern Counties East Football League League Cup is the 34th season of the league cup competition of the Northern Counties East Football League.
First round
Home teamScoreAway teamAttendanceGlasshoughton Welfare4–3(aet)Lincoln Moorlands Railway60Hemsworth Miners Welfare3–4A.F.C. Emley89Shirebrook Town1–0Dronfield Town113
Home teamScoreAway teamAttendanceTeversal1–0Hull United59Westella & Willerby0–1Selby Town127Yorkshire Amateur5–4Hall Road Rangers53
Second round
Home teamScoreAway teamAttendanceA.F.C. Emley3–3(aet)Liversedge106AFC Emley win 3–2 on penalties.Albion Sports5–0Nostell Miners Welfare40Athersley Recreation0–2Penistone Church113
Home teamScoreAway teamAttendanceBarton Town Old Boys2–1Rossington Main86Winterton Rangers2–4Pontefract Collieries41Worsbrough Bridge Athletic0–1Brigg Town51
Third round
Home teamScoreAway teamAttendanceA.F.C. Mansfield1–2Knaresborough Town58Bottesford Town2–3A.F.C. Emley46Bridlington Town4–0Brigg Town84Clipstone1–2Grimsby Borough44Garforth Town1–2Staveley Miners Welfare80Glasshoughton Welfare0–2Pickering Town66Handsworth Parramore5–1Shirebrook Town73Hallam1–2Selby Town81
Home teamScoreAway teamAttendanceParkgate1–3Tadcaster Albion107Penistone Church4–0Maltby Main78Retford United3–5Armthorpe Welfare56Teversal3–4Albion Sports53Thackley4–2(aet)Eccleshill United113Winterton Rangers0–4Cleethorpes Town64Worksop Town0–2Barton Town Old Boys204Yorkshire Amateur2–3Rainworth Miners Welfare38
Fourth round
Home teamScoreAway teamAttendanceA.F.C. Emley2–3Knaresborough Town129Albion Sports4–2Barton Town Old Boys21Armthorpe Welfare1–4Rainworth Miners Welfare58Cleethorpes Town4–3Staveley Miners Welfare70
Home teamScoreAway teamAttendanceGrimsby Borough1–2Tadcaster Albion165Penistone Church0–2Bridlington Town77Selby Town1–2Handsworth Parramore88Thackley5–1Glasshoughton Welfare38
Fifth round
Home teamScoreAway teamAttendanceHandsworth Parramore3–5(aet)Cleethorpes Town99Knaresborough Town1–3Tadcaster Albion251
Home teamScoreAway teamAttendanceRainworth Miners Welfare0–5Albion Sports61Thackley2–3Bridlington Town44
Semi-finals
Home teamScoreAway teamAttendanceBridlington Town0-1Cleethorpes Town85
Home teamScoreAway teamAttendanceTadcaster Albion2-1Albion Sports201
Final Played on 14 May 2016 at Garforth. First teamScoreSecond teamAttendanceCleethorpes Town 3-2Tadcaster Albion423
References
External links Northern Counties East Football League