August Town and Humble Lion qualified for the premier league with contrasting results yesterday finishing with 11 and 10 points respectively. Wadadah finished with eight and Brazil at the bottom on two from six games.

August Town made a speedy return to the premier league after thrashing Brazil FC 4-0 at Drax Hall yesterday while Humble Lion will play top flight football for the first time their club history after holding Wadadah to a 1-1 draw at the York Town Community Centre.

Goals by the skilful Akeem Thenstead in the 35^th, Josimar Campbell in the 43^rd, Terrence Allen five minutes later and Nicholas Smith in the 77^th ensured August Town qualified atop the four-team group with 11 points.

The Calvert Fitzgerald-coached outfit was relegated in the 2008/08 season, spent one year in the KSAFA Super League before edging Cavalier FC on goal difference to emerged as champion.

They have replaced another KSAFA team Meadhaven United that was eliminated thus ensuring that KSAFA, the home of champions Tivoli Gardens, has six representatives in the top league.

August Town join Tivoli and Arnett Gardens, Flow All Island Knockout champion, Boys’ Town, Waterhouse and Harbour View in the most powerful of the four confederations.

Brazil of St Ann finished with two points and were eliminated from last Saturday after going down 2-1 to Wadadah. It has been 12 years since a team from St Ann play top flight football and that parish will have to wait another year.

Meanwhile at the York Town Community Centre in Clarendon, home team Humble Lion had to come from behind to earned a crucial point in a 1-1 draw with Wadadah.

Mark Williams convert from the penalty spot giving Wadadah a 45^th minute lead and a foot into the premier league. At this point Wadadah were in the driver’s seat knowing that a win would be enough to qualify.

But Kevin Mighty scored arguably his most important goal of his and Humble Lions’ career in the 59^th minute for a crucial point.

It was a point which pushed the Clarendon team, formed in 1974, into the premier league for the first time in their history.

Humble Lions finished second in the group with 10 points, two ahead of Wadadah of St James.

Humble Lion will now join Sporting Central Academy as the second Clarendon team playing top flight football. Clarendon became only the third parish to have more than one team in the premier league along with St Catherine and Kingston & St Andrew.

Wadadah join former St James teams Violet Kickers and Seba that have won the premier league on at least six occasions in the parish Super League.

On the bigger picture, western Jamaica has only one team in the premier league in Village, which barely survived relegation based on a better goal difference than Meadhaven United.

The 12 teams to compete in next season Digicel Premier League will be champions Tivoli Gardens, Harbour View, Boys’ Town, Arnett Gardens, Waterhouse and August Town (KSAFA); Portmore United, Rivoli United (St Catherine); St George’s FC (Portland); Village (Trelawny); Sporting Central Academy and Humble Lions (Clarendon).