Since 2015 it has been a designated ECB Premier League, the highest level of recreational club cricket in England and Wales.

In 1974 the leading clubs broke away from the Competition and formed the Hertfordshire Cricket League, and then in 1994 the two tournaments once again merged under the name Hertfordshire Cricket League.

Hertfordshire's relationship with the Home Counties Premier Cricket League was always uneasy, and in autumn 2013 the Hertfordshire clubs all resigned from the Home Counties Premier Cricket League (with the exception of Tring Park,[2] who had not played in the Hertfordshire Cricket League since 1981, when they switched to the Thames Valley Cricket League).

The Hertfordshire clubs then returned to the Hertfordshire Cricket League, which was awarded ECB Premier League status in time for the 2015 season.

Between 2000 and 2013 the leading Hertfordshire clubs played in the Home Counties Premier Cricket League.