This is a list of
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly ...
clubs that compete within the leagues and divisions of the (
English football league system
The English football league system, also known as the football pyramid, is a series of interconnected leagues for men's association football clubs in England, with five teams from Wales, one from Guernsey, one from Jersey and one from the Isl ...
) as far down as Level 10, that is to say, six divisions below the
English Football League
The English Football League (EFL) is a league of professional football clubs from England and Wales. Founded in 1888 as the Football League, the league is the oldest such competition in the world. It was the top-level football league in Engla ...
. Also included are clubs from outside England that play within the English system (suitably highlighted). The relative levels of divisions can be compared on the
English football league system
The English football league system, also known as the football pyramid, is a series of interconnected leagues for men's association football clubs in England, with five teams from Wales, one from Guernsey, one from Jersey and one from the Isl ...
page.
List of Leagues and Divisions
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Premier League
The Premier League (legal name: The Football Association Premier League Limited) is the highest level of the men's English football league system. Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the English Fo ...
(Level 1)
*English Football League -
Championship (Level 2),
League One (Level 3),
League Two (Level 4)
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National League
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(Level 5/Step 1)
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National League
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North / South (Level 6/Step 2)
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Isthmian League
The Isthmian League () is a regional men's football league covering Greater London, East and South East England, featuring mostly semi-professional clubs.
Founded in 1905 by amateur clubs in the London area, the league now consists of 82 t ...
Premier (Level 7/Step 3), One North / One South Central / One South East (Level 8/Step 4)
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Northern Premier League
The Northern Premier League is an English football league that was founded in 1968. It has four divisions: the Premier Division (which stands at level 7 of the English football league system), Division One East, Division One West and Divisio ...
Premier (Level 7/Step 3), One East / One Midlands / One West (Level 8/Step 4)
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Southern Football League
The Southern League is a men's football competition featuring semi-professional clubs from the South and Midlands of England. Together with the Isthmian League and the Northern Premier League it forms levels seven and eight of the English ...
Premier Central / Premier South (Level 7/Step 3), One Central / One South (Level 8/Step 4)
Below these are the Regional Feeders:
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Combined Counties Football League
The Combined Counties Football League is a regional men's football league in south-eastern England with members in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Jersey, Kent, Middlesex, Oxfordshire, Surrey, and the western half and sou ...
Premier North / Premier South (Level 9/Step 5), One (Level 10/Step 6)
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Eastern Counties Football League Premier (Level 9/Step 5), One North / One South (Level 10/Step 6)
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Essex Senior Football League
The Essex Senior Football League is an English men's football league. It contains clubs from the Essex FA, Hertfordshire FA, London FA, Middlesex FA and the Amateur Football Alliance. It is a feeder league to Division One North of the Isthm ...
(Level 9/Step 5 only)
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Hellenic Football League
The Hellenic Football League, currently known as the Uhlsport Hellenic Football League for sponsorship reasons, is an English men's football league covering an area including the English counties of Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, southern ...
Premier (Level 9/Step 5), One (Level 10/Step 6)
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Midland Football League Premier (Level 9/Step 5), One (Level 10/Step 6)
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North West Counties Football League
The North West Counties Football League is a football league in the North West of England. Since 2019–20, the league has covered the Isle of Man, Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Merseyside, Cumbria, northern Staffordshire, northern ...
Premier (Level 9/Step 5), One North / One South (Level 10/Step 6)
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Northern Counties East Football League Premier (Level 9/Step 5), One (Level 10/Step 6)
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Northern Football League
The Northern League is a men's football league in north east England. Having been founded in 1889, it is the second-oldest football league in the world still in existence after the English Football League.
It contains two divisions; Division ...
One (Level 9/Step 5), Two (Level 10/Step 6)
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Southern Combination Football League Premier (Level 9/Step 5), One (Level 10/Step 6), Two (Level 11/Step 7)
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Southern Counties East Football League Premier (Level 9/Step 5), One (Level 10/Step 6)
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South West Peninsula League Premier East / Premier West (Level 10/Step 6 only)
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Spartan South Midlands Football League Premier (Level 9/Step 5), One (Level 10/Step 6)
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United Counties League Premier North / Premier South (Level 9/Step 5), One (Level 10/Step 6)
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Wessex Football League Premier (Level 9/Step 5), One (Level 10/Step 6)
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Western Football League Premier (Level 9/Step 5), One (Level 10/Step 6)
Alphabetically
The divisions are correct for the
2022–23
The dash is a punctuation mark consisting of a long horizontal line. It is similar in appearance to the hyphen but is longer and sometimes higher from the baseline. The most common versions are the endash , generally longer than the hyphen b ...
season.
Key
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0–9
A
B
C
D
E
F
Notes:
(IM) Isle of Man club playing in the English Football system.
G
Notes:
(CI) Channel Islands club playing in the English Football system.
H
I
J
Notes:
(CI) Channel Islands club playing in the English Football system.
K
L
M
Notes:
(WE) Welsh club playing in the English Football system.
N
Notes:
(WE) Welsh club playing in the English Football system.
O
P
Q
R
S
Notes:
(WE) Welsh club playing in the English Football system.
T
U
V
W
Notes:
(WE) Welsh club playing in the English Football system.
Y
Clubs in Levels 1–10 last season
See also
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List of former Football League clubs
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List of football clubs in England by major honours won
External links
Football Club History Database
{{Europe topic, List of football clubs in
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe ...
Football clubs in England
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonl ...