15-05-2025
New league for Guernsey FC rules out Jersey derby
There will be no Channel Island derby next season after Guernsey FC were relegated to the Southern Combination Premier Green Lions, who finished fourth-from-bottom of Isthmian League South Central, have been kept apart from neighbours Jersey the Bulls fail to win promotion from their league's play-offs they will remain in the Combined Counties Premier that happens the two sides would only be able to meet if they were drawn together in the FA started their time in the English football non-league system in 2011 in the Combined Counties League - winning successive promotions to move up to the eighth-tier Isthmian League in Southern Combination neighbours the Combined Counties League and covers East Sussex, West Sussex, Surrey and parts of south west London.