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| logo = The Football Combination.png | pixels = | country = {{ENG}} {{WAL}} | founded = 1915 | folded = 2012 }} The Football Combination was a football competition for the reserve teams of English Football League clubs from Southern England, the Midlands and Wales; other clubs from the Midlands and those from the North playing in the Central League (it is not to be confused with the Combination, a league for teams from North West England which existed at the turn of the 20th century). The Combination was inaugurated in 1915 with the following twelve founder members: Arsenal, Brentford, Chelsea, Clapton Orient, Croydon Common, Crystal Palace, Fulham, Millwall, Queens Park Rangers, Tottenham Hotspur, Watford and West Ham United. First team matches were played until 1919 from when Reserve teams took over. Croydon Common and Watford dropped out and were replaced with Charlton Athletic and Southend United. Up to 1926 it was known as the London Combination, but from 1926/27 season ten clubs from outside the London area were admitted and the name became something of a misnomer. The ten new clubs were: Brighton and Hove Albion, Cardiff City, Coventry City, Leicester City, Luton Town, Portsmouth, Reading, Southampton, Swansea Town and Watford were re-admitted. From the early 1930s to the outbreak of the Second World War, 24 clubs were in membership, with Aldershot, Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic, Bristol City, Northampton Town, Norwich City and Swindon Town joining at various times and others resigning. Following the resumption post WWII in 1946 the number of clubs was increased to 32, the title changed to Football Combination and it was re-organised into two Sections A and B, with the winners playing off for the Championship. A Combination Cup was also inaugurated to supplement the amount of fixtures clubs played. A number of changes to the constitution took place in the 1950s and 1960s. From 1952/53 promotion and relegation was introduced as the Combination was split into two Divisions, 1 and 2, with the top 8 from Sections A and B of the previous season forming Division 1, and the bottom 8 in each forming Division 2. This was short-lived and in 1955/56 a new format of one Division of 32 clubs was introduced, with teams playing 42 matches on a geographical basis. The Combination Cup was discontinued. Promotion and relegation was back for 1958/59 in two Divisions, based on the level of the first team of each club in the Football League, i.e. the top two Divisions of the Football League played in Division 1 of the Combination, and Division 3 and 4 teams were placed in Division 2. In 1961/62 things changed again and the Combination was re-organised into a Saturday Section and a Midweek Section with a play-off for the title. For 1963/64 the Combination reverted to Divisions 1 and 2, with the Saturday Section becoming Division 1 and the Midweek Section becoming Division 2, and promotion/relegation was reintroduced. The decline in numbers led to the reintroduction of the Combination Cup in 1966/67, and by 1968/69 the Combination was down to one Division of 26 teams.[1] The Combination originally included reserve teams of top League clubs within the region, but in 1999 the FA Premier Reserve League was founded. The reserve teams of the FA Premier League clubs and some First Division clubs joined that competition, reducing the size of the Combination (however, in 2006, Premier League clubs voted that only the 20 top-tier teams would be able to play in this league, which meant several well-established reserve sides moving to the Combination). The 2011–12 season was the last in the history of the Combination, with the introduction of the EPPP deeming the league surplus to requirements. Champions
Other DivisionsVarious other Divisions were utilised in the 1940s to 1960s to accommodate the number of member clubs.
Combination CupThe Combination also operated a cup competition in various seasons to give the member clubs extra fixtures. Winners
See also
References1. ^Information above comes from Chelsea FC Handbook 1951-52, and various Tottenham Hotspur programmes and handbooks from the 1950s and 1960s. 2. ^{{cite book|title=A-Z Of Bees: Brentford Encyclopedia|last=Haynes|first=Graham|date=1998|publisher=Yore Publications|year=|isbn=1 874427 57 7|location=Harefield, Middlesex|page=83|pages=|quote=|via=}} 3. ^The Football Combination Handbook 1973-74 lists all the winners noted above. 4. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 Tottenham Hotspur Handbooks 1974-75 to 1980-81. 5. ^http://thechels.info/wiki/Football_Combination. The Chelsea wiki lists all the winners from 1980-1995 and has league tables for all the years Chelsea were involved in. External links
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