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Non-League Football Matters is a football history information site about non-league soccer in the England.
SCARBOROUGH TOWN FC will continue next season. Left without a league to play in 2010-2011, the 2009-2010 Wearside League champions intend to operate again 2011-2012.
This website will therefore restart in September. Further details of plans for the future will be published here in due course. One new feature will be the STFC Fantasy League, about which more will be said during the next few days.
During its first year the site has concentrated on leagues in the North.
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.
As part of planned redevelopment, the site will start looking at the non-league game's history in the South as well. Work has begun, with opening and 2009-2010 pages now on site for:
the Southern League the Isthmian League the Combined Counties League + up to1990 the Eastern Counties League + up to 1958 the Essex Senior League + up to 1981 the Hellenic League the Kent League + up to 1984 the Midland Alliance + up to 2002 the Sussex County League + up to 1958 the United Counties League + up to 1970 the Wessex League the Western League
From this page you can go to the 'THE REGIONS' into which the site is divided. These are :
The NORTH-EAST (Northern League, the NCEL, Wearside League, Midland League, North-Eastern League, Yorkshire League, Northern Alliance)
The NORTH-WEST (North West Counties League, Cheshire County League, Lancashire Combination, Manchester League)
The NORTH (Conference North, Northern Premier League)
The CONFERENCE (National, North, South)
The SOUTH - which will include leagues mentioned above
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 LATEST
August 25th – Work on developing the site will begin again from the start of September 2010.
The TABLES button gives access to Final 2009-2010 Tables for the Conference, the Northern Premier League, the Northern League, the Wearside League, the Teesside League, the NCEL, the North West Counties league, the Manchester League, the Southern League, the Isthmian League, all southern leagues noted above + various leagues at Step 7 and below in the North (e.g. Cheshire, Lincolnshire and West Yorkshire). |
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OTHER POINTS
September 3rd - Southern League 1895-1900 + September 2nd - Isthmian League 1908-1922 + September 1st - Combined Counties League 1990-1998 Final Tables have been added.
Details of the STFC Fantasy League are now on site. Why not give it a go? 17 teams are already entered. Entry is free and there will be a small prize of £25 for the winner.
August 29th - The first 'Updates' of the new season have been put on site today. Decorating duties prevented this being done earlier.
ADDITIONAL SITE INFORMATION
'Home Pages' of individual leagues all include a 'HISTORY' page button which can be used to access what's here for each competition.
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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