Shropshire County Premier Football League

Shropshire County Premier Football League

Founded	1950
Folded	2012
Country	England
Divisions	Premier Division Division One
Number of teams	30 (2011–12)
Level on pyramid	13 and 14
Feeder to	West Midlands (Regional) League Division Two
Domestic cup(s)	Premier Division Cup Division One Cup Ron Jones Memorial Cup SFA: Challenge Cup Junior Challenge Cup Commander Ethelston Charity Cup
Last champions	Newport Town (2011–12)

The Shropshire County Premier Football League was an English association football league based in the county of Shropshire. The league, usually known as the Shropshire County League, was founded in 1950 and in the final season had two divisions which sat at levels 13 and 14 of the English football league system. It was dissolved in May 2012 and all member clubs transferred to a new, larger Mercian Regional Football League for the 2012–13 season.^[1][2]

Clubs who won this league were promoted to the West Midlands (Regional) League^[3] (all champions 2008–2012 were), although on occasion teams (such as Shifnal Town in 1993) instead moved into the Midland Football Combination. The champions of the 2011–12 season – the final season for the league – were Newport Town.

Teams from the Telford Combination were sometimes promoted into the league, as Impact United did in 2008 and Ketley Bank United in 2009.^[4] Teams from the Shropshire Alliance were also able to be promoted into the league, as Rock Rovers did in 2011, however the Alliance folded with its last season being 2010–11.^[5]

The grounds of several teams in the league, most notably Brown Clee, were featured in David Bauckham's book Dugouts, which noted the high frequency of dugouts with lockable doors which are also used for storage, a feature seemingly unique to clubs in Shropshire.^[6]

All scores of the league's Saturday afternoon games were read out on BBC Radio Shropshire, around an hour after full-time.