NLS Feeder Leagues

The NLS Feeder Leagues replaced step 7 of the National League System when step 7 was abolished in season 2020/21. It is the lowest level of the National League System.
The feeder leagues are administered and organised by county FA’s, who make the big decisions, including promotion and relegation.
The leagues are regional, with 49 different leagues containing teams from the respective region. The regional feeder leagues go down as low as the 20th level of the game in England.
However, a total of 787 clubs participate in the regional leagues that are now considered the 11 level of the English game overall. However, there are thousands of clubs at levels below the 11th level of the game.
Teams who play in the various regional feeder leagues win promotion to the appropriate leagues at step 6. However, like with most leagues in the lower reaches of non-league football, it depends on whether their facilities meet those of the respective league they are mooted to join.
Relegation works the same, as teams in the NLS Feeder Leagues are relegated to an appropriate league in the next level, which in this case would be level 12.
Feeder Leagues
- Anglian Combination Premier Division
- Bedfordshire County League Premier Division
- Cambridgeshire County League Premier Division
- Central Midlands League Premier Division North
- Central Midlands League Premier Division South
- Cheshire League Premier Division
- Devon County Football League
- Dorset Premier League
- Essex Alliance League
- Essex & Suffolk Border League Premier Division
- Essex Olympian League Premier Division
- Gloucestershire County League
- Hampshire Premier League Senior Division
- Herefordshire Football League Premier Division
- Hertfordshire Senior County League Premier Division
- Humber Premier League Premier Division
- Kent County League Premier Division
- Leicestershire Senior League Premier Division
- Lincolnshire League
- Liverpool County Premier League Premier Division
- Manchester League Premier Division
- Mid-Sussex League Premier Division
- Middlesex County League Premier Division
- Midland League Division Two
- Northamptonshire Combination League Premier Division
- Northern Alliance Premier Division
- North Riding League Premier Division
- Nottinghamshire Senior League Senior Division
- Oxfordshire Senior League Premier Division
- Peterborough & District League Premier Division
- Shropshire County Football League Premier Division
- Sheffield & Hallamshire County Senior League Premier Division
- Somerset County League Premier Division
- Southern Combination League Division Two
- Spartan South Midlands League Division Two
- St Piran League East Division
- St Piran League West Division
- Staffordshire County Senior League Premier Division
- Suffolk & Ipswich League Senior Division
- Surrey Premier County Football League
- Thames Valley Premier League Premier Division
- Wearside Premier Division
- West Cheshire League Division One
- West Lancashire League Premier Division
- West Midlands (Regional) League Division One
- West Yorkshire League Premier Division
- Wiltshire Senior League Premier Division
- York League Premier Division
- Yorkshire Amateur League Supreme Division