Northern League may refer to:
Sport
Baseball
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Northern League (baseball, 1902–71)
The Northern League was a name used by several minor league baseball organizations that operated off and on between 1902 and 1971 in the upper midwestern United States and Manitoba, Canada. The name was later used by the independent Northern Le ...
, a name used by several minor leagues that operated in the upper midwestern U.S. and Manitoba from 1902 to 1971
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Northern League (baseball, 1993–2010)
The Northern League was an independent minor professional baseball league. It was not affiliated with Major League Baseball or the organized minor leagues. The league was founded in 1993 and folded after its 2010 season when financial stability ...
, an independent baseball league in the United States from 1993 to 2010
* Northern League (1936–1952), a
collegiate summer baseball
Collegiate summer baseball leagues are amateur baseball leagues in the United States and Canada featuring players who have attended at least one year of college and have at least one year of athletic eligibility remaining. Generally, they operat ...
league that operated primarily in New York and Vermont
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Northern Association
The Northern Association was a Class D level minor league. It began and ended play in 1910, disbanding on July 19, 1910. The Joliet club moved to Sterling on June 21. The Clinton and Freeport teams disbanded on June 28; The Elgin and Kankakee fran ...
(1910), a minor league in Illinois and Iowa that operated for only one season
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Northern League (collegiate summer baseball)
The Northern League is a collegiate summer baseball league consisting of teams in Illinois and Indiana. It was named the Midwest Collegiate League (MCL) from 2010 to 2021.
History
Formed in 2010, as a four-team summer collegiate wood bat league, ...
, a collegiate summer baseball league named the Midwest Collegiate League from 2010 to 2022
Cricket
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Northern Premier Cricket League
The Northern Premier Cricket League is a cricket league in the North West of England and was designated as an ECB Premier League in 2000. , a cricket league in England
Football
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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 ...
, also known as Ebac Northern League, an association football league in North East England
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Northern Football League (Scotland)
The Northern League was a regional Scottish football competition held between 1891 and 1920.{{cite web, url=http://sfha.org.uk/northernleague
In 1908–09, six clubs left to form the Central Football League and the league shut down for the ...
A now defunct Scottish football competition, in existence between 1891 and 1920
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Northern League (New Zealand)
The Northern League is a semi-professional New Zealand association football competition. It is a top-tier competition during the winter season, and sits at step two overall.
The Northern League includes football clubs located in the northern pa ...
, an association football league covering the northern part of the North Island, New Zealand
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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 ...
, also known as EvoStik League and previously UniBond League, an association football league covering the whole of the north of England
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Northern League, the first association football league in Italy
Ice hockey
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Northern League (ice hockey, 1966–1982)
The Northern League was the top-flight ice hockey league in Scotland and initially northern England, from 1966. In 1982 it merged with the Inter-City League and the English League North to form the British Hockey League.
The League developed out ...
, existed in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the United Kingdom
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Northern League (ice hockey, 2005–)
The Northern League is an ice hockey league in the United Kingdom, contested by teams from England, Wales and Scotland. Named for the Northern League which existed in the 1960s and 1970s, it was founded in 2005 in the same format as the defunct B ...
, a current minor ice hockey league in the United Kingdom
Motorcycle speedway
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Northern League (speedway)
The Northern League was founded in 1929 when it was known as the English Dirt Track League, the earliest league (along with the Speedway Southern League, Southern League) in motorcycle speedway, speedway racing in the United Kingdom, comprising te ...
, one of two British speedway leagues between 1929 and 1931
Other meanings
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Lega Nord
Lega Nord (; acronym: LN), whose complete name is (), is a right-wing, federalist, populist and conservative political party in Italy. In the run-up of the 2018 general election, the party was rebranded as (), without changing its official n ...
''), a political party in Italy
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Northern League (United Kingdom)
The Northern League was a neo-Nazi organisation founded by Roger Pearson. It was active in the United Kingdom and in northern continental Europe in the latter half of the 20th century.
History
Roger Pearson formed the Northern League in collab ...
, a eugenics group active in the United Kingdom in the mid-20th century
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