The League's History
How we got to be now...
The league was formed in 1970 and known as The Bushey Friendly League.
There was just a handful of clubs and teams to start with, and a small committee, so small that League Discipline meetings were held in the sitting room of Ruth & Ted Gwynne.
It grew rapidly each season with the league having to run more age groups. To accommodate the demands of the clubs and the age groups they wanted to enter.
As the years flew by before we new it, we had near on 100 clubs in membership, and within those clubs 500 teams from age groups U8 – U18 to arrange football for.
We lost the use of the Watford Labour Club for our League meetings, but were fortunate to strike up a sponsorship with Watford FC and part of the deal was the use of their club lounge. This is when the league changed name again and became The Watford Friendly League.
Due to internal problems at Watford, when the sponsorship, which was initially for a three year period was due to be reviewed it was found that they were unable to continue with it, we also lost the use of the hall. But were fortunate to be able to use Sun Postal for our League meetings, with {SCI} Sports Club International becoming the main sponsor of the League.
The Watford Friendly League arranges over 200 games per week from Sept – May allowing approximately 9000 boys and girls the chance to play football in a safe and secure environment.
This could not be done with out the excellent volunteer officers of The Watford Friendly League.
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