The Combined Counties Football League is a regional men's football league in south-eastern England with members in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Jersey, Kent, Middlesex, Oxfordshire, Surrey, and the western half of Greater London, featuring a number of semi-professional clubs.
The winners then met in a two-legged play-off final, with Ash United winning 3–0 in aggregate against Malden Town.
Southwick became the first team promoted to the Isthmian League from a feeder club in 1985, and Chertsey Town followed a year later.
[1] In 1987, the league announced a four-year sponsorship agreement with Dan-Air worth a five figure sum.
However, the league attracted just seven clubs for the inaugural season and reluctantly abandoned the competition after one year.
With the Dan-Air sponsorship coming to an end at the end of the season, the league agreed a sponsorship deal with Parasol Professional Portrait Photography and became known as the Parasol Combined Counties Football League.
The arrival of the team meant that clubs would fly or take a ferry over to the Channel Islands in order to fulfil their fixtures, with Guernsey covering the expenses as a requirement of their membership.
The pandemic led to further disruptions in the 2020-21 season, with it starting in September, before being suspended in December and eventually curtailed in February 2021 by restrictions from COVID-19 lockdowns.
The FA later announced on 12 April that the Combined Counties League would administer a new Step 5 division from 2021–22 after another scheduled NLS restructuring had a one-season postponement due to the pandemic.
Cherry Red Records are the current League and Premier Challenge Cup sponsors and have been since 2005.
For the 2003–04 season Division One was added formed mainly of clubs from the Surrey County Senior League.