The Mining League was a football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 league competition based in Cornwall

Cornwall

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, UK, with three divisions. The First Division sat at level 13 of the English football league system

English football league system

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, and the winning team could be promoted to the Cornwall Combination

Cornwall Combination

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.

The league merged with the Falmouth & Helston League

Falmouth & Helston League

The Falmouth and Helston League was an English association football league comprising clubs from South Cornwall. It consisted of three divisions, with the top division at the 13th overall tier of the English football league system...

 at the end of the 2010–11 season. Both leagues at the time of the merger had three divisions and had 45 teams. The new Trelawny League

Trelawny League

The Trelawny League is an English association football league comprising clubs from West Cornwall, formed from a merger between the Mining League and the Falmouth & Helston League at the end of the 2010–11 season. It consists of seven divisions, with the top division at the 13th overall tier of the...

was introduced for the start of the 2011–12 season, once the Falmouth & Helston League celebrated its 50th anniversary.

Events

In 2010 the league made the national news due to the performances of, then recently promoted, Division One team Madron F.C., who conceded 227 goals in their first 11 games of the season, including a 55–0 defeat to Illogan RBL Reserves. Madron finished the season with no points and a goal difference of -395.

Recent Divisional Champions

These are the divisional champions for the last two seasons of the league:

External links

• Mining League results and tables @ TheFA.com