Leicestershire Leagues with divisional winners

Leicestershire Senior League
  Division One    Shepshed Charterhouse
  Division Two    Ibstock Penistone Rovers
City Goldsmiths Leicestershire Combination
  Division One    Friar Lane Old Boys Reserves
  Division Two    Wigston Fields Reserves
Leicester & District Football League
  Premier Division    Desford Colliery
  Division One     
  Division Two    Welby Lane United
  Reserve Premier Division    Holwell Works Reserves
  Reserve Division One     
Leicester & District Mutual Football League
  Premier Division    Highfield Rangers
  Division One    South Wigston Working Mens Club
  Division Two    Needham Rangers
  Division Three    Metal Box
  Division Four    Blaby 74 Reserves
  Division Five    Melody Mills
  Division Six    Pex Reserves
Leicester City Football League
  Premier Division    St. Andrews SC
  Division One    St. Margarets Athletic Reserves
  Division Two    Kirklands
  Division Three    East Park
  Division Four    Braunstone Imperial
  Division Five    St. Andrews SC 'A'
  Division Six    Braunstone Imperial Reserves
  Division Seven    Post Office Sports
Melton & Rutland District Football League
       Methodists United
North Leicestershire Football League
  Premier Division    Markfield Rovers
  Division One    Cotton Sports
  Division Two    Bardon Hill Sports
  Division Three    Morris Sports Reserves
  Division Four    Bardon Hill Sports Reserves
Charnwood Sunday League
  Premier Division    Thringstone Rangers
  Division One    Bruce Fletcher
  Division Two    Loughborough Pegasus
  Division Three    Aylestone Park Youth
  Division Four    Plasmatic Rangers
  Division Five    Swithland Motors
  Division Six    Mountsorrel Dynamo Reserves
Fiat Hinckley & Harborough Alliance
  Premier Division    Wigston Town CC
  Division One    Turner & Jarvis
  Division Two    Premier Drum
Hinckley & District Sunday League
  Smiths Sports Division One    Hillsborough
  Clarendon Park S. Mantle Division Two    Clarendon Park
  WEB Sports Division Three    Forest East
  Hinckley Building Society Division Four    Tudor
  Division Five    Marquis of Granby
  Division Six    Toller & Lancester
Leicester & District Sunday Football League
  Tote Premier Division     
  Division One     
  Division Two     
  Division Three     
  Division Four     
  Division Five     
  Division Six     
Leicester 74 Sunday League
  Division One    Dog & Gun
  Division Two    Mowmacre
  Division Three    RID Chemicals
Leicestershire & Rutland Thursday Football League
       Petfoods Thursday

Non Leicestershire Leagues with Leicestershire based teams

The Football League
  Division Two    Leicester City
The Football Combination
       Leicester City Reserves
Southern Football League
  Division One North    Enderby Town
West Midlands (Regional) League
  Premier Division    Hinckley Athletic
Peterborough & District Football League
  Division Three    Ryhall United
Midlands Senior Sunday Football League
       Westcotes Old Boys
Midland Womens League
  Division One    Emgals, Leicester Ladies
  Division Two    Emgals Reserves, Leicester Ladies Reserves
  Division Three    Syston Swifts Ladies

Leicestershire Cups with final score

Leicestershire & Rutland Saturday Medals 'C'
  St. Andrews SC 'A'  4  Braunstone Imperial Reserves  2
Westerby Challenge Cup
  Enderby Town  2  Anstey Nomads  0
Leicestershire & Rutland Senior Cup
  Enderby Town  4  Shepshed Charterhouse  2
Leicestershire & Rutland Saturday Junior Cup
  Desford Colliery  3  Holwell Works  1
Leicestershire & Rutland Saturday Intermediate Cup
  New Parks Boys Club  1  Victoria YMCA  0
Loughborough Charity Cup
  Winner Pegsons
Melton Charity Cup
  Holwell Works beat Quorn
Rolleston Charity Cup
  Winner Shepshed Charterhouse
Automedia Printers Cobbin Trophy
  Belton Villa beat Morris Sports
Bonser Trophy
  Ingles Reserves beat Asfordby Amateurs Reserves
Tebbutt-Brown Cup
  unknown
Florentine Bowl
  unknown

Non Leicestershire Cups

Name changes before the start of 1978/79.

Hathern to Hathern Three Crowns
Leicester Post Office to Post Office Sports
Leicester YMCA to Victoria YMCA
Wildts & Co. to Wildts MB

Name changes at the end of 1978/79.

None.

Mergers before the start of 1978/79.

Wigston Town formed by the merger of Midland Athletic and Wigston Council Old Boys

Mergers at the end of 1978/79.

None.

New teams for the start of 1978/79.

Braunstone Town - Leicester & District Football League
Countesthorpe Mutual - Leicester & District Mutual Football League
East Goscote Spartans - Charnwood Sunday League
FC Morris - Charnwood Sunday League
Glenfield Town - Leicester & District Mutual Football League
Higham United
Loughborough Students
Oadby Royal British Legion - Hinckley & Harborough Alliance Sunday League
Park Olympic - Melton & Rutland District Football League
Quorn Rawlins - Charnwood Sunday League
Syston Swifts Ladies - Midland Womens League
Westcotes Old Boys - Midlands Senior Sunday Football League
Woodside Rangers - Leicester 74 Sunday League

Teams disappearing at the end of 1978/79.

Bath Hotel Shearsby - Leicester 74 Sunday League
Coalville Town - North Leicestershire Football League
Countesthorpe Mutual - Leicester & District Mutual Football League
Emgals - Midland Womens League
Higham United
Hogg Robinson & Gardner Mountain - Hinckley & District Sunday League
Humberstone United - Leicester City Football League
Lutterworth Boys Club Old Boys - Leicester City Football League
Ratby Rovers - Leicester City Football League
REME Old Dalby - Leicestershire & Rutland Thursday Football League
Retail Markets - Leicestershire & Rutland Thursday Football League
Roundhill Community College - Leicester & District Mutual Football League
Syston Swifts Ladies - Midland Womens League
Thringstone Rangers - Charnwood Sunday League
Wellington Victoria - Leicestershire Senior League
Westcotes Old Boys - Midlands Senior Sunday Football League
Wigston Magna - Leicester City Football League
Wildts MB - Leicester & District Football League