County football association


The county football associations are the local governing bodies of association football in England and the Crown dependencies. County FAs exist to govern all aspects of football in England. They are responsible for administering club and player registration as well as promoting development amongst those bodies and referees.
Most of the county FAs align roughly along historic county boundaries, although some cover more than one county, and some of the major cities, particularly those with a strong football tradition, have their own FAs. The Sheffield FA was the first to be created, in 1867. Several institutions have county FA status in their own right, including Cambridge and Oxford universities, the armed forces, and the Amateur Football Alliance, which has a strong presence in the south-east of England.
County football associations host 'county cups' – knockout cup competitions held at a sub-regional level, which are open to all affiliated members of the county FA. Typically, county FAs will host county cup competitions at the following levels: senior, intermediate, junior, women's, veterans, senior Sunday football, intermediate Sunday football and junior Sunday football.
The county football associations, along with their fellow associations from Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland ran the Tesco Cup, a tournament for players under 16, from 2005 to 2011.

List of county FAs

AssociationFoundedMain county cup
Amateur Football Alliance1907AFA Senior Cup
Army1888Army FA Challenge Cup
Bedfordshire1894Bedfordshire Senior Cup
Berks & Bucks1878Berks & Bucks Senior Cup
Birmingham1875Birmingham Senior Cup
Cambridgeshire1884Cambridgeshire Invitation Cup
Cheshire1878Cheshire Senior Cup
Cornwall1889Cornwall Senior Cup
Cumberland1885Cumberland Senior Cup
Derbyshire1883Derbyshire Senior Cup
Devon1887Devon St Lukes Challenge Cup
Dorset1887Dorset Senior Cup
Durham1883Durham Challenge Cup
East Riding1903East Riding Senior Cup
English Schools1904
Essex1882Essex Senior Cup
Gloucestershire1886Gloucestershire Senior Cup
Guernsey1894Guernsey FA Cup
Hampshire1887Hampshire Senior Cup
Herefordshire1893Herefordshire Senior Cup
Hertfordshire1886Herts Senior Cup
Huntingdonshire1886Huntingdonshire Senior Cup
Isle of Man1890Isle of Man FA Cup
Jersey1905Le Riche Cup
Kent1881Kent Senior Cup
Lancashire1878Lancashire Senior Cup
Leicestershire & Rutland1887Leicestershire and Rutland Senior Cup
Lincolnshire1881Lincolnshire Senior Cup
Liverpool1882Liverpool Senior Cup
London1882London Senior Cup
Manchester1884Manchester Senior Cup
Middlesex1883Middlesex Senior Cup
Norfolk1881Norfolk Senior Cup
North Riding1881North Riding Senior Cup
Northamptonshire1887Northamptonshire Senior Cup
Northumberland1882Northumberland Senior Cup
Nottinghamshire1882Nottinghamshire Senior Cup
Oxfordshire1884Oxfordshire Senior Cup
Royal Air Force1920Royal Air Force FA Cup
Royal Navy1904Royal Navy FA Cup
Sheffield and Hallamshire1867Sheffield and Hallamshire Senior Cup
Shropshire1877Shropshire Senior Cup
Somerset1885Somerset Premier Cup
Staffordshire1887Staffordshire Senior Cup
Suffolk1885Suffolk Senior Cup
Surrey1877Surrey Senior Cup
Sussex1882Sussex Senior Challenge Cup
Westmorland1897Westmorland Senior Challenge Cup
West Riding1896West Riding County Cup
Wiltshire1886Wiltshire County FA Senior Cup
Worcestershire1893Worcestershire Senior Cup