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The East of Scotland Football League (EoSFL) is a league of football teams from south-east Scotland, which was formed in 1923. The league sits at level 6 on the pyramid system, on a par with the South of Scotland Football League and is proposed to act as a feeder to the Lowland Football League. Its clubs are largely drawn from the Edinburgh, Lothians and Scottish Borders areas. A total of 16 teams will compete in 2015–16, drawn from the 29 members of the sister organisation, the East of Scotland Football Association (EoSFA). From the 2014–15 season, it is proposed that the winner of the East of Scotland Football League will face the winner of the South of Scotland Football League for a place in the 2015–16 Lowland Football League. This will be subject to the club meeting the sufficient licensing criteria to satisfy the terms of promotion. ==Background== The EoSFL was traditionally one of Scotland's three "senior" non-leagues, which sat below the Scottish Football League (SFL), the other two being the Highland Football League and the South of Scotland Football League (SoSFL). In 2013, a new Lowland League was formed covering all of Scotland, south of the River Tay to act as a direct feeder to the Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL). Although initially there will not be any automatic promotion and relegation between the EoSFL and the Lowland League, it is planned to be the first step towards creating a coherent Scottish football pyramid. The EoSFL draws its members from Edinburgh, the Lothians and the Borders regions, but in recent years members have been drawn from a wider area of south-east Scotland, including Burntisland Shipyard, Gretna 2008 and Stirling University. Recently the EoSFL has been viewed as a stronger league than the South of Scotland League (SoSFL), with a number of ambitious SoSFL clubs having opted to join the EoSFL, including Annan Athletic, who left when elected to the SFL in 2008. Teams who also joined include Dalbeattie Star and Threave Rovers, who both subsequently left to rejoin the SoSFL and then the Lowland League. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「East of Scotland Football League」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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