The Football Combination
The Football Combination (commonly referred to as the Pontin's Holidays Combination for sponsorship reasons, and formerly known as the Avon Insurance Combination) is a football competition for the reserve teams of English Football League clubs from Southern England and Wales. Clubs from the Midlands and the North play in the Central League.
The Combination originally contained all the reserve sides of League clubs within the region, but in 1999 the FA Premier Reserve League was founded. The reserve teams of the FA Premier League clubs and some First Division clubs joined that competition, reducing the size of the Combination.
Participating teams
The Combination is split into three parallel divisions, the East, Central, and Wales & West Divisions. The articipating teams for 2005-06 are:
East Division
- Barnet
- Colchester United
- Leyton Orient
- Luton Town
- Milton Keynes Dons
- Northampton Town
- Oxford United
- Southend United
- Stevenage Borough
Central Division
- Aldershot Town
- Brighton & Hove Albion
- Crawley Town
- Gillingham
- Millwall
- Queens Park Rangers
- Reading
- Woking
- Wycombe Wanderers
Wales & West Division
- Bournemouth
- Bristol City
- Bristol Rovers
- Cardiff City
- Cheltenham Town
- Plymouth Argyle
- Swansea City
- Swindon Town
- Yeovil Town