'Home' and Change Colours 2015-16 #22: Excelsior Benelux

 

Newcomers to the Football Alliance for 2015-16, Cambridge-based Excelsior Benelux draw their players from the expat Low Countries' ethnic community, their orange and red halved shirts representing the colours of the Netherlands, and Belgium and Luxembourg, with the design on the change shirts combining the colours of the respective nations' flags.



Two New Clubs for Second Division

As a result of recent events, the Football Alliance have announced that the two vacancies which existed in the Second Division due to the combination of Crewe Alexandra’s promotion and Matlock Town’s resignation will be allocated to the 3rd and 4th placed clubs in the 2014-15 regional league play-offs, the Newcastle-based Anglo-Scots Caledonia Thistle of the Northern League, and another team with ethnic origins and associations, Excelsior Benelux from the London and South-East Counties, whose home is Cambridge.