About The Bracknell Town & District Sunday Football League

The Bracknell Town and District Sunday League was originally formed in 1963, with just one division. Over the intervening years the League expanded in size to comprise seven divisions with eighty one teams for the 1997 - 98 season. For the 1998 - 99 season the League reduced to six divisions, and for the 1999 - 00 season the Committee deliberately chose to limit the League to five divisions. After the AGM in June 2007 the league was comprised of fifty- five teams, but Barn Rangers Reserves withdrew before the season commenced and Hope and Anchor only played a handful of games before calling it a day, leaving the Premier Division again reduced in numbers.

Wroxton have amalgamated with Winkfield and FC Hanworth have joined Bagshot Road to become their Reserve side, leaving fifty - two teams from last season. There are seven new additions for season 2008 - 09, six new clubs and a new reserve team, to give fifty - nine teams. If all of them start the season there will be eleven in the Premier and twelve in the other four Divisions, the most we have had for a number of years.

Centred in Bracknell the League includes teams from Ascot, Bracknell, Crowthorne, Earley,
Finchampstead, Reading, Sandhurst, Sunninghill, Winkfield, Wokingham and Woodley. The League has enjoyed the support of Bill Murphy and John Wood Sports in recent years, and now has a good relationship with the sponsors of the League, Bracknell Town F.C.

In addition to sponsorship from Bracknell Town F.C., and the local press, the League have been fortunate to have had the support of the Shikara Balti & Tandoori Restaurant and Gowrings of Wokingham for the two major cup competitions. For a period Morland Breweries sponsored the Senior Cup, but Greene King showed no interest in continuing with the sponsorship when they took over Morlands. Shikaras took over for three years but their interest lapsed. Gowrings supported the cup competition for the lower division teams for many years, but this support lapsed as a result of the Inchcape takeover at Gowrings. Sadly neither of these competitions is now sponsored. The Committee would welcome an interest from any local company or organisation who are prepared to provide sponsorship or support.

Bracknell Town F.C. provide the League with sponsorship in the form of facilities for League meetings, use of their pitch and support for the Subsidiary Cup competition, for those teams in the lower divisions and teams not eligible to enter the Junior Cup, who have completed their matches. The competition now renamed as the Bracknell Town F.C. Challenge Cup was not operated in the 2007 - 08 season, due to an insufficient number of teams who had completed their league program as a result of the many postponed matches caused by severe weather conditions.