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Southern Counties East                                                              Bridon  Ropes  F.C. began life as a  In 2011 they became founder mem-

                                                                                          factory team back in 1935. It was  bers  of  the  Kent  Invicta  Football
      Football League                                                                     founded by workers at the Brit-       League. This  League  was eventually
                                                                                          ish Ropes Works in Charlton, Lon-
                                                                                                                                amalgamated with the Kent League
                                                                                          don, and unsurprisingly became  which now has 2 divisions. The Kent
                                                                                          known as British Ropes F.C.           Invicta League teams formed the new
          he Southern Counties East  Therefore                                            In the early days we played in vari-  Div 1 of this League
      TFootball League is an English  the South-                                          ous local leagues with home match-
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      football league for teams based in  ern Counties                                    es being played at our home ground
      Kent and the South East, which was  East Football                                   within  the  factory  grounds  until
      established  in  1966.  Until  2013  it  league now op-                             eventually joining the South London
      was known as the Kent League.         erates two Divisions. The Premier Divi-       Amateur League.
                                            sion is at Step 5 of the Non -League Pyr-          View the Chessington & Hook United website for
                                                                                                London Spartan League
      The first Kent League was formed in  amid with the First Division at Step 6.        Several years later we found our-
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      1894 and folded in 1959. Despite many  The promoted teams from the Premier          selves  playing  in  the  Greater  Lon-
      of the same clubs having spells in mem- will enter the Isthmian League at Step 4    don League which they left in1975
      bership, there is no direct connection  with relegated teams from the First Di-     to join the  London Spartan League
      between the two competitions.         vision likely to enter the Kent County        still under the name of British Ropes
                                            League at Step 7.                             but in 1990 the Factory changed its
      The current incarnation of the league                                               name to Bridon Ropes and the foot-
      was formed in 1966 as the Kent Pre- Like was the case for most all of the           ball  club  changed its name to  Bri-
      mier League (changing to Kent Football  leagues at our level, the 2019-20 and       don Sports.    They then won Division
      League in 1968), and in its early years  2020-21 Seasons were both abandoned        Two of the Spartan League in 1991–
      many of its members were reserve sides  due to the Worldwide Covid-19 pan-          92 and the London Junior Cup.  In
      of  Southern  League  teams.  Gradually,  demic. The 2019-20 season was approx-     1992 the club changed its name to the
      the reserve sides were all shifted down  imately 75%  completed but was  made       current Bridon Ropes FC.
      into the lower divisions.             null and void. The 2020-21 Season was           Joined the Kent County League
                                            only around 25% through and was cur-          In 1997 they became founder mem-
      In 2013 the league changed its name to  tailed.                                     bers of the Spartan South Midlands
      the Southern Counties East League, to                                               Football League Division  Div One
      reflect the fact that not all of its member                                         South. However, they left the league
      clubs played within the county of Kent.                                             the following season to become
                                                                                          founder members of the London In-
      At the end of the 2015–16 season, the                                               termediate League. Bridon Ropes lat-
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      league merged with the recently formed                                              er joined the Kent County League Di-
      Kent Invicta League and the latter be-                                              vision One and became Champions
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      came the lower division of the merged                                               in the 2009 season, achieving promo-
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      league.                                                                             tion to the Premier Division.
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