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The National League was formed in 1979 from leading teams in the Northern Premier League and Southern League and was known originally as the Alliance Premier Football League and from 1986–87 as the Football Conference. Support for such a league came from Alan Hardaker, the long serving Secretary of the Football League.
The National League is the lowest division in the English football pyramid organised on a nationwide basis. Formerly the Conference National, the league was renamed the National League from the 2015–16 season. [1]
Accrington replaced Oxford United, who had replaced them when they resigned from the League in 1962. Northwich Victoria , Stafford Rangers and Weymouth returned to the Conference National , the latter for the first time since 1989, whilst St Albans City won promotion to the fifth tier for the first time.
The 2020–21 National League season, known as the Vanarama National League for sponsorship reasons, was the sixth season under English football 's new title of the National League, the eighteenth season consisting of three divisions, and the forty-second season overall. The season followed the curtailed 2019–20 season, in which the league ...
2022–23 →. The 2021–22 National League season, known as the Vanarama National League for sponsorship reasons, was the seventh season as English football 's National League, the nineteenth season consisting of three divisions, and the forty-third season overall. Due to the curtailment of the preceding season for North and South and lower ...
A total of 22 teams contest the division, including 18 sides from last season, two relegated from the Football League Two, one promoted from the Southern Football League and one promoted from the Isthmian League. Winners and runners-up of Northern Premier League were unable to qualify in Conference National.
2019–20 →. The 2018–19 National League season, known as the Vanarama National League for sponsorship reasons, was the fourth season under English football 's new title of National League, fifteenth season consisting of three divisions and the fortieth season overall. [1]
The Atlantic Coast Conference’s grant of rights agreement, signed in 2013 and updated in 2016 when the ACC Network was formed, secured the league during nationwide conference-altering moves a ...