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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).
The Football League continued to strengthen over time, and in 1920–21 it expanded to absorb the 20 strongest Southern League teams, followed by the addition of two more southern teams and 18 leading northern non-League clubs the following year, making the eminent so-called non-League divisions by this point feeders to the Football League ...
This is a list of football clubs that compete within the leagues and divisions of the men's English football league system as far down as Level 10 (Step 6), that is to say, six divisions below the Premier League/English Football League. Also included are clubs from outside England that play within the English system (suitably highlighted).
Before the establishment of the Premier League in 1992, the Football League, as it was called then, included all 92 clubs, in four divisions. Clubs outside the Football League were referred to as non-League clubs, and this naming continues for clubs below the four professional divisions. The top tier of non-League football is the National League.
R&F (a satellite team of Guangzhou R&F F.C., a top-level professional club in China's Super League) play in the Hong Kong Premier League, starting from the 2016–17 season. After failing to win a trophy in four years, R&F officially announced withdrawal from the league on 14 October 2020.
National League’s Boreham Wood caused a major shock by dumping out Championship Bournemouth on Sunday. 10 non-league clubs to reach FA Cup fifth round after Boreham Wood’s heroics Skip to main ...
From the 1986–87 season, the club finishing bottom was relegated to the Conference National (now National League), the highest level of non-League football, [5] depending on the ability of the Conference champions to meet FA requirements. [6] Since 2002–03, the bottom two clubs of League Two face relegation to the National League. [7]
This is a list of non-League football stadiums in England, ranked in descending order of capacity. There is an extremely large number of non-league football stadiums and pitches in England, and a definitive list of stadia would be impossible to produce. This list therefore includes: All football stadiums with a capacity of at least 5,000.