The 2020–21 Northern Football League season was the 123rd in the history of the

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 ...

, a

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 c ...

competition in England. The league has operated two divisions in 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 ...

, Division One at step 5, and Division Two at step 6. The allocations for Steps 5 and 6 for season 2020–21 were announced by the FA on 21 July, and were subject to appeal. Due to the restrictions on clubs' ability to play matches in the

COVID-19 lockdowns Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of non-pharmaceutical interventions colloquially known as lockdowns (encompassing stay-at-home orders, curfews, quarantines, and similar societal restrictions) have been implemented in numerous countrie ...

, competitions at Steps 3–6 were curtailed on 24 February 2021. The scheduled restructuring of non-league took place at the end of the season, with a new division added to the

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 ...

at Step 4 for 2021–22, resulting in three Northern League clubs' promotions to that league.

Division One

Division One comprised 20 teams, the same number of teams which competed in the previous season's aborted competition.

Division One table

Stadia and locations

Division Two

Division Two comprised the same 20 teams which competed in the previous season's aborted competition.

Division Two table

Stadia and locations

References

External links

Northern Football League
{{DEFAULTSORT:Northern Football League 2020-21

2020–21 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 ...

9 Northern Football League, 2020-21