Essex Veterans Football League

Dec 11, 2015 — League Management Trophy

Twenty one Over 45 teams to be split into four groups (One groups of six and two groups of five). Maidonians have requested not to enter the Competition. Teams will play each other once in the Group stage. There will be a designated “Home” team, however if their pitch is unplayable then the game is played on opponents ground if fit.

Dec 11, 2015 — League Cup Semi Final Draws

The draws for the Semi Finals of the League Cups have been made. They are as follows:

Dec 5, 2015 — Registrations

Clubs are reminded that Registration forms must be received by Thursday at the latest for players to play on the following Saturday. This includes

Dec 5, 2015 — Cup Updates

Please see updates on various Cup Competitions The draws for the Semi Finals of the League Cup competitions will be made at the Management Committee meeting on Thursday 14th January 2016. The Finals will be held at Billericay Town.

Nov 10, 2015 — Dean Weatherley West Essex

We are sorry to advise you that Dean Weatherley of West Essex passed away last week. Our thoughts are with his family, friends and everyone connected to West Essex at this difficult time

Oct 8, 2015 — Port of London Authority

We are sorry to announce that Port of London Authority have withdrawn their Over 35 Team from the Premier Division. This may mean alterations to the fixtures

Sep 28, 2015 — Fixtures

As a League over the last two seasons we are becoming increasingly concerned over the rise in forfeited games due to teams being unable to field sides. This trend is continuing already this season. We want to try to address this as it leaves opponents without games and it costs them money. It also causes the Fixture Secretaries, the Referee Appointment Secretary and the Governance Officer increased workloads. Again here we want football to be played we don’t want your money from fines and teams winning points through default. The new procedures for requesting fixtures to be re-arranged are as follow:

Sep 28, 2015 — Registration Changes

The League Officers work very hard to try to make the League run as smoothly as possible, they also try to help people when they have problems. The issue we are experiencing is there has been a large increase being made on demands of League Officers, some of this is due to the increased size of the League whilst some of it being more Clubs not doing things at the right time which increases the work load of the League Officers. We want people to get things right and we want to help people, we don’t want money from fines or players not being able to play because of red tape.

Sep 26, 2015 — Website & Twitter

During the summer there were a number of issues with the server hosting the League website. This lead to the website being moved to a new server. One of the problems experienced meant the website crashed and had to revert to a backup copy.