Non-League and Academy football writer

The 2025/26 The Jeff Nardin & Combination Division (step 10 of the Middlesex County League) season is the first one since the Jeff Nardin and Combination divisions merged, at the end of last season. So far proving to be an interesting title race at the top of the division, this is a competitive division of the Middlesex County League, and one in which some fine sides (both current and former) started off in, in the Middlesex League. 

At the top of The Jeff Nardin & Combination Division going into 2026, is Kodak (Harrow) 3rds. They have so far accumulated 23 points from 11 league matches played. A good side, Kodak (Harrow) 3rds impressed me on the occasion that I saw them last season, when they finished as league runners-up to Sudbury Court, who have since been promoted to The Russell Grant Division 2. So as well as being in the semi-finals of the Jeff Nardin & Combination Cup, going into 2026, it’s been a very good start to the season for Kodak’s 3rds.

In second place in this 12 team division, are Old Isleworthians Reserves. Part of a very well established football club in Middlesex, Old Isleworthians Reserves re currently four points off the league leaders, having played one game more than them. A fine FH Whistlers Originals side have played ten league games, and although they did have a points deduction on one occasion, they are four points off the league leaders, with two games in hand over them.

Fourth place West London Wanderers (they’ve won six of their first eight league matches of the season) are also in contention for the title, having quite a lot of games in hand over the teams above them. West London Wanderers are followed in the table by Kensington Dragons Blues (they were relegated from The Russell Grant Division 2, at the end of last season) and last season’s divisional cup finalists AFC Heathrow, respectively. 

Holy Rood are currently in their first season (they are one place below AFC Heathrow in the table) in the Middlesex League, after joining from the Herts & Borders Church Division. Although they did receive a points deduction, they’re a good side, who have only lost one game all season. Holy Rood are also competing in this season’s National Christians Trophy, and they have a third round away tie in that competition, at the end of next month.

The Isleworth and OHM Sports are in their first season in the Middlesex County Football League, and they are in eighth and ninth place respectively, in this division. Last season’s Jeff Nardin & Combination Division Cup winners, Feltham Town, are in tenth place in the league table, after seven league matches played. Although they did receive a points deduction earlier on this season, Feltham Town, who are a talented side, as they showed last season, have won three, drawn two and lost two, from their opening seven league fixtures.

In the bottom two places of this division of the Middlesex League, are Indian Gymkhana Club Reserves, whose reserve team rejoined the league for the start of this season, and CB Hounslow & Abbots 3rds. Finally, this season’s Jeff Nardin & Combination Division Cup is once again proving to be highly competitive. The final of that competition will take place slightly earlier next year, on Saturday the 21st of March. I would like to wish all of the teams who are competing in this season’s division of the Middlesex League, all the very best of luck for the remainder of the season.

The three top goalscorers in The Jeff Nardin & Combination Division, at this point of the season:

1: Connor Fitzsimons (Old Isleworthians Reserves) – 10 goals

2: Deniro Cunningham (Kensington Dragons Blues) and Benjamin Kilshaw (Holy Rood) – 9 goals.

3: Bradley Curran (AFC Heathrow), Mohammed Ismail Ansari (FH Whistlers Original), Ethan Drummond-Rey (FH Whistlers Originals), and Samuel Ladipo (Kensington Dragons Blues) all tied on 8 league goals for this season.