Northern Premier League Division One South

Northern Premier League Division One South

Countries	England
Founded	2007
Number of teams	22
Level on pyramid	8
Promotion to	NPL Premier Division
Relegation to	NWCL Premier Division NCEL Premier Division Midland Football Alliance
Domestic cup(s)	FA Cup FA Trophy Challenge Cup President's Cup Chairman's Cup Peter Swales Shield
Current champions	Barwell (2010–11)
Website	Official website
2011–12

Division One South is one of the two second-tier divisions of the Northern Premier League. It is at Step 4 (or level 8) of the National League System, placing it seven divisions below the Premier League. For sponsorship reasons, it is also referred to as the Evo-Stik League Division One South.

The split of the Northern Premier League First Division resulted in the creation of the Division One South and the Division One North. The division began play at the start of the 2007–08 season, initially with 18 teams but increased to 22 teams from the 2009–10 season.

At the end of the season, the champion of the league is promoted to the Northern Premier Division. The teams placed 2nd to 5th engaged in a playoff to determine which team is also promoted. The teams placed 21st and 22nd are relegated to level 9. ^[1]

League system

The league operates a double Round Robin system, where each team plays each other team twice, once at home and once away. After 42 games, the team that are placed top of the league will automatically promote to the Northern Premier League Premier Division and the two teams at the bottom of the league relegate to one of the feeder leagues (Usually either the North West Counties, Northern Counties East, United Counties League or Midland Alliance). Teams placed 2nd to fifth will play off for the final promotion spot.

However, prior to the 2008–09 season, when the league originally split from its traditional one division into a North and South, the league operated with 18 teams, leading to splitting the league into two separate groups of 9 teams each. Each team would play each team in their own group three times (once at home, once away then an extra game where each team received an extra four home games) and play the teams in the other group home and away once each.

This changed back to the traditional format in 2008–09 when more teams entered the league.

Current clubs

Club	Finishing position 2010–11
Belper Town	14th
Brigg Town	4th
Carlton Town	8th
Coalville Town	1st in Midland Football Alliance
Goole	13th
Grantham Town	5th
Hucknall Town	20th in the Premier Division
Ilkeston	New team
Kidsgrove Athletic	7th
Leek Town	16th
Lincoln United	12th
Loughborough Dynamo	17th
Market Drayton	18th
New Mills	1st in NWCFL Premier Division
Newcastle Town	2nd
Quorn	15th
Rainworth M.W.	20th
Romulus	10th
Sheffield	11th
Shepshed Dynamo	21st (reprieved from relegation)
Stamford	19th
Sutton Coldfield Town	6th

Past champions

From 1987 until 2007, the division was united and just known as the Northern Premier League First Division, before being split into North and South subsections. Here are the champions from when the league was just the NPL First Division.

1987–88 - Fleetwood Town 1988–89 - Colne Dynamoes 1989–90 - Leek Town 1990–91 - Whitley Bay 1991–92 - Colwyn Bay 1992–93 - Bridlington Town 1993–94 - Guiseley 1994–95 - Blyth Spartans 1995–96 - Lancaster City 1996–97 - Radcliffe Borough

1997–98 - Whitby Town 1998–99 - Droylsden 1999–2000 - Accrington Stanley 2000–01 - Bradford Park Avenue 2001–02 - Harrogate Town 2002–03 - Alfreton Town 2003–04 - Hyde United 2004–05 - North Ferriby United 2005–06 - Mossley 2006–07 - Buxton

League Summaries

Year	Champions	Promoted	Playoff Teams	Relegated
2007–08	Retford United	Cammell Laird Nantwich Town*	Grantham Town Nantwich Town Sheffield Stocksbridge Park Steels	Alsager Town#
2008–09	Retford United	Retford United Stocksbridge Park Steels	Belper Town Carlton Town Rushall Olympic Stocksbridge Park Steels	Gresley Rovers†
2009–10	Mickleover Sports	Mickleover Sports Chasetown	Chasetown Glapwell Kidsgrove Athletic Sheffield	Willenhall Town
2010–11	Barwell	Barwell Rushall Olympic	Brigg Town Grantham Town Newcastle Town Rushall Olympic	Glapwell† Spalding United

^{* Retford United not promoted due to ground grading in 2007–08.
# Relegated for Ground Standards.
† Voluntarily asked for relegation.}

See Also

• Northern Premier League Division One
• Northern Premier League Division One North

References

1. ^ BBC Guide to the Non-League Pyramid

External links

• Current league tables