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Country
  
England

Current champion
  
Number of teams
  
46

Confederation
  
The Football Association

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Divisions
  
Premier DivisionDivision OneDivision Two

Feeder to
  
Northern League Division Two

Domestic cup(s)
  
Challenge CupStan Seymour League Cup

Current champions
  
Blyth Town (Premier Division)Shilbottle Colliery Welfare (Division One)Gateshead FC A (Division Two)

Founded
  
1890, England, United Kingdom

Level on pyramid
  
English football league system

The Northern Football Alliance is a football competition based in the Northeast of England and Cumbria. It has three divisions headed by the Premier Division, which sits at step 7 (or level 11) of the National League System. Under a sponsorship agreement it is billed as the Newcastle Building Society Northern Football Alliance.

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The top club in the Premier Division is eligible for promotion to the Northern League Division Two. The top clubs in the First and Second Divisions are promoted to the Premier and First Divisions respectively. The bottom club in the Second Division may be relegated to either the North Northumberland League Division One, or the Tyneside Amateur League, depending on which is more geographically appropriate.

The Northern Football Alliance was founded in 1890 as a single league, with a membership of seven teams. In 1926 it became the Second Division of the North Eastern League, but it split away again in 1935. It disbanded in 1964 due to lack of membership, but reformed just one season later, in 1965–66.

In 1988 the Northern Amateur League and the Northern Combination League combined with the Northern Football Alliance (all under the name Northern Football Alliance) to create a three-division format, which still exists today, currently with 46 member teams.

Premier Division

  • AFC Newbiggin
  • Ashington Colliers
  • Birtley Town
  • Gateshead Rutherford AFC
  • Killingworth Town
  • Newcastle University
  • Northbank Carlisle
  • North Shields Athletic
  • Percy Main Amateurs
  • Ponteland United
  • Red House Farm
  • Seaton Delaval Amateurs
  • Shankhouse
  • Walker Central
  • Wallington
  • Whitley Bay Reserves
  • Division One

  • Alnmouth United
  • Cramlington Town
  • Cullercoats
  • Felling Magpies
  • Gateshead FC A
  • Gateshead Redheugh 1957
  • Gosforth Bohemians
  • Grainger Park
  • Heaton Stannington A
  • Hebburn Reyrolle
  • Hexham
  • Monkseaton FC
  • New Fordley
  • Seaton Burn
  • Wallsend Boys Club
  • Wallsend Labour Club
  • Division Two

  • Bedlington Town FC
  • Blyth FC
  • Blyth Town A
  • Cramlington United
  • Forest Hall
  • Hazlerigg Victory
  • Killingworth YPC
  • Prudhoe Youth Club FC Seniors
  • Red Row Welfare
  • Ryton & Crawcrook Albion A
  • Spittal Rovers
  • Whitburn Athletic
  • Whitley Bay Boys Club Seniors
  • Wideopen & District
  • Willington Quay Saints
  • References

    Northern Football Alliance Wikipedia


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