ESSEX SENIOR LEAGUE FIXTURES RELEASED

The forty-fourth season of the Essex Senior League kicks off on Saturday 9th August with all twenty clubs in action. There are some really good games in prospect with last season's runner's up Haringey Borough welcoming Clapton to Coles Park and fourth placed Tower Hamlets making the trip to Bowers and Pitsea who are under the new management of Rob Small who has joined from Essex Olympian League side Southminster St Leonards where he won the championship last season. There are also two East London derby games as Ilford welcome former tenant's Waltham Forest to Cricklefield Stadium and Sporting Bengal United welcoming old rival's under a new name in Newham FC. London Bari who finished bottom in 2013/14 winning only three of thirty-eight games welcome Greenhouse London who finished in eighteenth place winning six of their thirty-eight games. Enfield 1893 FC will be playing their home league games at Harlow Town's stadium and welcome both Stansted and Greenhouse London in the opening week of the season.

EAST LONDON DERBY DAYS
ILFORD v WALTHAM FOREST
SPORTING BENGAL UNITED v NEWHAM

SATURDAY 9th AUGUST 

BASILDON UNITED v BARKING 

BOWERS AND PITSEA v TOWER HAMLETS 

ENFIELD 1893 v STANSTED 

ETON MANOR v TAKELEY 

FC ROMANIA v SOUTHEND MANOR 

HARINGEY BOROUGH v CLAPTON 

HULLBRIDGE SPORTS v SAWBRIDGEWORTH TOWN 

ILFORD v WALTHAM FOREST 

LONDON BARI v GREENHOUSE LONDON 

SPORTING BENGAL UNITED v NEWHAM  

LONDON BARI WILL BE COMPETING IN THEIR THIRD SEASON IN THE ESSEX SENIOR LEAGUE

TUESDAY 12th AUGUST

BARKING v SAWBRIDGEWORTH TOWN 

CLAPTON v SPORTING BENGAL UNITED 

ENFIELD 1893 v GREENHOUSE LONDON - this game should be re-scheduled to the Monday or Wednesday night as Harlow Town are at home to Romford in the Ryman Division One (North)

HARINGEY BOROUGH v LONDON BARI 

WALTHAM FOREST v TAKELEY 

WEDNESDAY 13th AUGUST

BASILDON UNITED v ILFORD 

BOWERS AND PITSEA v HULLBRIDGE SPORTS 

ETON MANOR v FC ROMANIA 

THURSDAY 14th AUGUST 

NEWHAM v STANSTED  

In the FA Cup there is only one all Essex Senior League game as Clapton play Bowers and Pitsea. FC Romania make a little piece of history as they make their debut in the competition with a home tie against Haverhill Rovers. Barking make the reverse trip to Suffolk to face Haverhill Borough. There is a game on Sunday which could attract a good amount of ground hoppers when Stansted play Ipswich Wanderers at Bishop's Stortford's ProKit Stadium.

SATURDAY 16th AUGUST 
FA Cup Extra Preliminary Round
BASILDON UNITED v Stanway Rovers
CLAPTON v BOWERS AND PITSEA
Cockfosters v HULLBRIDGE SPORTS
Colney Heath v SOUTHEND MANOR
FC ROMANIA v Haverhill Rovers
Hadleigh United v SAWBRIDGEWORTH TOWN
HARINGEY BOROUGH v Hertford Town
Haverhill Borough v BARKING
ILFORD v Saffron Walden Town
SPORTING BENGAL UNITED v FC Clacton
TAKELEY v London Tigers
TOWER HAMLETS v Felixstowe and Walton United
Whitton United v ETON MANOR
Wivenhoe Town V ENFIELD 1893

SUNDAY 17th AUGUST 
Fa Cup Extra Preliminary Round 
STANSTED v Ipswich Wanderers