Open to anyone
New club, new squad. If you can get to the Marshes on a Sunday morning, we want to hear from you.
The club
Who we are
Lea River FC is a Sunday league football club founded in 2026. We play in Hackney & Leyton Sunday Football League, Division 3, with home games at Hackney Marshes in east London.
We are named after the River Lea, which runs down through the marshes and out to the Thames. The fish on the badge is for the river; the year is for the season we started.
Our colours
We play in pink and black. It is a nod to Palermo, whose rosanero shirts have carried that combination since 1907, and it makes us very easy to spot on a foggy morning at the Marshes.
Where we play
Hackney Marshes is the largest area of public football pitches in Europe and has been home to Sunday league football in London for the better part of a century. Nearest stations are Hackney Wick and Homerton. Pitch number to confirm
The league
Division 3 runs from September to December this season, ten games in all. The full list is on the fixtures page.
What we are about
Play properly
Sunday league has a reputation. We would like to be the side that turns up on time, plays football, and shakes hands afterwards.
Local
The Lea Valley is the point. A club for the people who live along it, and the pink is not going anywhere.
Squad and committee
Names will go up here once they are confirmed. To confirm