Northern Premier League

The Northern Premier League is an English football league that was founded in 1968. It has three divisions –the Premier Division, Division One North West and Division One South East. Successful teams at the top of the NPL Premier Division are promoted to level 6 of the pyramid. At the bottom end of the competition, teams are relegated down to level 9, where several regional feeder leagues promote clubs.

About Northern Premier League in brief

The Northern Premier League is an English football league that was founded in 1968. It has three divisions –the Premier Division, Division One North West and Division One South East. The league covers all of Northern England and the northerncentral areas of the Midlands. Successful teams at the top of the NPL Premier Division are promoted to level 6 of the pyramid. At the bottom end of the competition, teams are relegated down to level 9, where several regional feeder leagues promote clubs into the league. Owing to title sponsorship deals, the league has been billed under various names, including a sixteen-year spell as the Unibond League, the longest such deal in world football.

The League announced on 8 July 2019 that a two-year deal for seasons 2019-20 and 2020-21 had been agreed with new sponsor BetVictor. This sponsorship agreement was subsequently terminated early in April 2020 with a replacement yet to be announced. From the 2019–20 season, from Division One One East have 20 clubs each, along with the winners of a playoff in each division. The bottom two clubs are relegated to one division of the Northern Counties League. Clubs in the northern extremities of the Midland League and the United Counties County League may also be promoted to the NorthernPremier League if there is an unusually large number of small clubs relegated to these leagues.

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