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Although the National League is the top level of the non-league pyramid, it is not the highest level of English football (it is actually the fifth overall division). The Premier League and the three divisions of the English Football League (EFL) comprise the top 92 clubs in the English game; each season, two teams from the National League ...
Non-League football describes football leagues played outside the top leagues of a country. Usually, it describes leagues which are not fully professional. The term is primarily used for football in England, where it is specifically used to describe all football played at levels below those of the Premier League (20 clubs) and the three divisions of the English Football League (EFL; 72 clubs).
This remaining group of regional amateur and semi-professional leagues formed a patchwork across England and Wales, collectively known as "non-League football". Non-League in this sense referred to outside the national, professional Football League, rather than without a league. There was relatively little movement between leagues, although ...
The 2024–25 Southern Combination Football League season is the 100th in the history of the competition, which lies at levels 9, 10 and 11 (steps 5 and 6, and county feeder) of the English football league system. [1] The constitution was announced by The Football Association on 17 May 2024. [2]
The league has two Premier divisions (Central and South) at Step 3 of the National League System (NLS) and two Division One divisions (Central and South) at Step 4. These correspond to levels 7 and 8 of the English football league system. The allocations for Steps 3 and 4 for season 2020–21 were announced by the FA on 21 July 2020. [1]
The Midland League operates two divisions in the English football league system, the Premier Division at Step 5, and Division One at Step 6, and these two levels are covered by this article. The allocations for Steps 5 and 6 for season 2020–21 were announced by The Football Association on 21 July, [1] and were subject to appeal.
The league's individual player salary cap in 2022 was $75,000, requiring more than $200,000 of Rodman's salary per season to be paid with allocation money. [14] In 2023, the league expanded the use of allocation money to reduce the salary cap burden of a player's total compensation, including bonuses, fees, and benefits. [15]
The 2024–25 National League season, known as the Vanarama National League for sponsorship reasons, is the tenth season under the title of the National League, the twenty-second season consisting of three divisions, and the forty-sixth season overall.