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Non-League Football Matters is a football history information site about non-league soccer in the North of England.
The site features : The Wearside League (www.wearside-football-league.org.uk), The Northern League (www.northernleague.org/), The Northern Counties (East) League (www.ncel.org.uk), The North West Counties (www.vodkatleague.com), The Unibond/NPL (www.unibondleague.com/), Conference North (www.footballconference.co.uk/) The Manchester League (www.manchester-league.co.uk) - a start at least and similarly with the Northern Alliance AND some leagues no longer with us - The Midland League, The North Eastern League, The Yorkshire League, The Cheshire League, The Lancashire Combination.
THE LATEST
This week's changes - UPDATES and the reopening of access to the Cheshire County League and Lancashire Combination pages. New colour coding for individual league pages is being continued.
The INDEX page showing where to find many of the clubs covered on site is now only accessible from the UPDATES page.
Yorkshire Step 7 – latest news @ January 17th, 2010
Word is now that there will not be a new competition - 07/03/2010 - the idea now seems to be the money-saving option of upgrading leagues and not demanding all the costly changes. In the continuing difficult economic climate, this makes sense. There are, however, clubs with plans for developments and cash to pay for these - but they are being held up by red tape involved in planning permission.
THE REGIONS
From this page you can go to the 'regions' into which the site is divided. These are :
The NORTH-EAST which includes coverage of the Northern League (1889-present) - complete., the NCEL (1982-present) - complete., the Wearside League (1892-present), the Midland League (1889-1982) - complete, the North-Eastern League (1906-1964) - complete, and the Yorkshire League (1920-1982) - complete the Northern Alliance (1890-1948).
The NORTH-WEST which includes coverage of the North West Counties League (1982-present) - complete the Lancashire Combination (1891-1982) - complete and the Cheshire County League (1919-1982) - complete the Manchester League (intro + 1950s and temporary pages for 1960-1988 + pages for 1988-2005).
The NORTH which includes coverage of Conference North (2004-2009) - complete and the Unibond/Northern Premier League (1968-2009) - complete.
The CONFERENCE which has information on the National section 1979-2009 - complete, Conference South 2004-2009 - complete.
Once into the 'regions' you can access 'League Home Pages' which will tell you briefly about the origins of the leagues included and enable you to see early Final Tables for the competitions. From these you can follow the links provided which lead you onto more Final Tables from the past, together with brief notes on changes in the competition. Details of exactly what's on the site are being put onto the 'region' pages in stages.
THE GAME PLAN – THIS SITE’S FUTURE
More league histories are to be added in due course. Several have been targeted :
The Cheshire League, the Humber Premier, the Liverpool County Senior, the Staffordshire Senior, the Teesside League, the West Cheshire, the West Lancashire, and the West Yorkshire.
It is proving very difficult to unearth accurate records for all the competitions named above (and, of course, many seasons for the Wearside League).
More club history details are also to be added - in the long run.
THE RETURN OF THE BORO
There is another key link at the top of the page to SCARBOROUGH TOWN, champions of the Teesside League Division 2 last season and now members of the Wearside League at Step 7 in the Pyramid. The club has brought senior soccer back to Scarborough after the town lost its football club on June 20th, 2007, in the High Court at Leeds. For the history of the old club, there is a link 'NOT FORGOTTEN' from the CONFERENCE 'region' page.
This site is not just about Scarborough, however. What it is about is Non-League Soccer in the North of England - because it matters! |
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OTHER POINTS
MARCH 7th - UPDATES of league standings now show the tops and bottoms of many of the over 30 featured leagues for March 7th.
The first 2 volumes of Hopkin’s History of the Football League are now on sale from Desert Island Books. For more information, please follow THE BOOKS link at the top of the page. There is now a short extract from Book 1 (for 1909-1910) which can be viewed from the BOOKS page.
All final league tables of all leagues covered are now on the site. More link buttons have now been added to make movement around the site easier.
Please use the Index button if you want to find where and when a particular club appears on the site. Over 100 clubs are listed on this page and so are their web addresses, which will enable visitors to go club websites from here. For latest league results/tables please use the league website addresses to the left of this column.
Future plans for this site have had to be put on hold. The main aim remains to improve the site as a resource for visitors. Viva football!
For details about our latest link, with the North of England’s premier performance project, PERFORMING EARTH, go to the NORTH page
ADDITIONAL SITE INFORMATION
Further history (league tables + notes on changes/ movements) is being added for featured leagues, covering a few seasons at a time. 'Home Pages' of individual leagues all include a 'HISTORY' page button which can be used to access what's here for each competition.
This site is about the history of the Non-League game first and foremost, so for the 2009-2010 season. your best bet is to go to the nonleaguematters.co.uk site. Other useful websites include the FCHD site and the Non-League Tables archive at www.nonleaguetables.co.uk, which covers the period 1946-1980.
Started on July 9th, 2009 - the visitor counter was added on August 17th.
Hit counter disappeared at 4224, so we've started again on February 13th, 2010.
Hopefully around for a while.
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