Non-League English Football

If you are a sports enthusiast, you probably know everything about both professional and semi-professional English football teams. However, there are many people who do not even know that there are inferior leagues specially designed for semi-professional players. Check the article below to find some mandatory things you need to know about the National League, which is the non-professional one.
First of all, you need to know some historical facts about this league. The National League appeared in 1979 as a solution for the two strongest leagues of English football in the lower tier. From 1979 to 1986 it was named the Alliance Premier League and until 2015, it was called the Football Conference. After that, when a new sponsor came, the name was changed once more, now being known as the Vanarama National League.
The National League is split in three main divisions, the National League, which is the top division, National League South (for teams located in the Southern part of England) and National League North (for teams located in Northern England, North Wales, Norfolk and the English Midlands). The second and the third ones appeared in 2004.
As for the competitive level, each season the first two teams are promoted to the third professional league, the English Football League Two (know as the EFL League Two or simply referred to as League Two). Even though there has not been any team from the National League to enter the Premier League (the first English football league), there were five teams who competed in the Football League First Division (the second league), and those are: Oxford United, Grimsby Town, Carlisle United, Luton Town and Leyton Orient.
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