| London 3 North East | |
| Current Season: | 2016–17 London 3 North East |
| Sport: | Rugby union |
| Founded: | (as London 4 North East) |
| Teams: | 12 |
| Champion: | Harlow (1st title) |
| Season: | 2016–17) (promoted to London 2 North East |
| Most Champs: | Braintree, Campion, Saffron Walden |
| Count: | 2 |
| Website: | englandrugby.com |
London 3 North East was an English rugby union league that was the eighth level of club rugby union in England and was available to sides from north east London, Essex, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk. Promoted clubs move into London 2 North East. Relegated teams tended to drop to Eastern Counties 1 or Essex 1 depending on geographical location, with new teams also coming from these leagues.
The league was discontinued at the end of the 2016–17 season as the RFU decided to instead create two new leagues - London 3 Eastern Counties and London 3 Essex - to reduce travelling times for teams involved. The teams from London 3 North East were transferred to either London 3 Eastern Counties or London 3 Essex depending on geography, along with additional teams being promoted from regional leagues if needed.
When this division as introduced in 2000 (as London 4 North East) it contained the following teams:
Originally known as London 4 North East, this division was a tier 8 league with promotion up to London 3 North East and relegation down to Eastern Counties 1 and (from 2003–04) Essex 1.
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| Season | No of teams | Champions | Runners–up | Relegated Teams | |||||||||||
| 2000–01[1] | 10 | Bury St Edmunds | Holt, Newmarket, Ely | ||||||||||||
| 2001–02[2] | 10 | Saffron Walden | |||||||||||||
| 2002–03[3] | 10 | Braintree | |||||||||||||
| 2003–04[4] | 10 | Campion | Ely | ||||||||||||
| 2004–05[5] | 10 | Rochford Hundred | |||||||||||||
| 2005–06[6] | 10 | Braintree | |||||||||||||
| 2006–07[7] | 10 | Saffron Walden | |||||||||||||
| 2007–08[8] | 10 | Mersea Island | |||||||||||||
| 2008–09[9] | 12 | Colchester | |||||||||||||
| Green backgrounds are promotion places. | |||||||||||||||
League restructuring by the RFU ahead of the 2009–10 season saw London 4 North East renamed as London 3 North East. Remaining as a tier 8 league, promotion was to London 2 North East (formerly London 3 North East), while relegation continued to either Eastern Counties 1 or Essex 1. The division was cancelled at the end of the 2016–17 season, with all non-promoted teams moving into the newly introduced London 3 Eastern Counties and London 3 Essex.
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| Season | No of teams | Champions | Runners–up | Relegated Teams | |||||||||||
| 2009–10[10] | 12 | Beccles | |||||||||||||
| 2010–11[11] | 12 | Basildon | |||||||||||||
| 2011–12[12] | 12 | Holt | |||||||||||||
| 2012–13[13] | 12 | South Woodham Ferrers | |||||||||||||
| 2013–14[14] | 12 | Campion | |||||||||||||
| 2014–15[15] | 12 | Sudbury | |||||||||||||
| 2015–16[16] | 11 | Old Cooperians | |||||||||||||
| 2016–17[17] | 11 | Harlow | No relegation | ||||||||||||
| Green backgrounds are promotion places. | |||||||||||||||