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For one season only, 1981-82, the league had too many clubs to operate a standard league season, so the clubs were split into two equal sections, Eastern and Western, with Ash United from the Western Section beating the Eastern Champions Malden Town 3-0 in a two-legged play-off. The league was adopted as a feeder to the Isthmian League , but until recently, few of the Champion clubs have had the necessary facilities to progress upwards. Since the F.A. restructuring of the National League System , clubs can be promoted to either the Southern League or the Isthmian League, depending on geographical considerations. From 1982 , a similar arrangement below the Combined Counties League existed with the Surrey Senior County League (formerly the Surrey Premier League)), but in 2003 the two leagues merged and the former Surrey Senior County League members formed a new Combined Counties League Division One, with the previous members forming a Premier Division. There is semi-automatic (depending on facilities) promotion and relegation between the two divisions, but due to the basic nature of many of the Division One clubs facilities, the two sections are officially at Steps 5 and 7 of the National League System. Division One is now "fed" by a number of local leagues, such as the Surrey County Intermediate League West , the Surrey South Eastern Combination and the Middlesex County League . It has had a succession of title sponsors, most recently a company called ''Seagrave Haulage'' (during this period the league emblem was a moving truck on a shield with the letters SHL, for ''Seagrave Haulage League'', superimposed) and after a period without such a relationship has signed a new deal with Cherry Red Records, and is officially known as the ''Cherry Red Records Combined Counties League''. As with most leagues at this level, players are as a rule only paid expenses, and attendance at league games averages approximately fifty. The league saw a welcome exception to this for two seasons from 2002 , when AFC Wimbledon were offered a place in the league and took crowds well into four-figures to the grounds of the Combined Counties League. The league also organises a number of League Cups, ranging from the Premier Challenge Cup to one for reserve teams of first-division clubs. LIST OF CHAMPIONS
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