Non-league football

In England, the Football semi-professional and amateur are known as non-league football , because it does not form part of four professional divisions of the First League and the Football League. The " term; non-league" of use entered before 1992 when largest English clubs of football was still affiliated with League Football. At that time all the clubs which did not belong to League Football were regarded as clubs non-league.

The clubs non-league play in semi-professional leagues or amateur. These leagues are for the majority of the regional leagues depending on the Fédération of England of football, which manages the National League System (NLS). The NLS has 7 levels of divisions and account more than 50 leagues, some having several divisions.

Before 1987, there did not exist any automatic system of rise and descent between the professional clubs and those of the non-league football. The clubs of bottom of table of the last division of the Football League were simply to represent their candidature for League Football at the end of the season, it was in the majority of the cases only one simple formality. The system was made so that the clubs of League Football were ensured to remain in League Football, while those of non-league were not likely almost any to go up.

In 1987, the English federation set up an automatic system of promotion and relegation between the clubs of the Football League and those of the Conference National (championship created in 1979, and which is still today the highest level of the non-league football). Scarborough was the first club non-league with being promoted in Football League, Lincoln City was the first club of League Football to being relegated in the non-league football. Since 2003, 2 clubs of Conference National were promoted at the end of each season.

The non-league football did not cease evolving/moving during the years. Since 1979 is set up under the level of the Conference National, a pyramidal system of levels, including good number of competitions formerly completely independent from/to each other. In 2004, the Conference even obtained an anteroom with two groups: Conference North and Conference South. In table Ci below figure all the subdivisions of the non-league football, the pyramid starts on level 5, the First League being on level 1 and League Football occupying levels 2,3 and 4.

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