The 2022–23 season was the 125th in the history of the
Northern Football League
The Northern League is a British men's association football, football league in North East England, north east England. Having been founded in 1889, it is the second-oldest football league in the world still in existence after the English Footb ...
, a
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...
competition in England. The league 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 ...
, Division One at step 5, and Division Two at step 6.
The allocations for Steps 5 and 6 this season were announced by the Football Association on 12 May 2022,
and were subject to appeals.
Division One
Division One featured 16 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with four new clubs.
* Promoted from Division Two:
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Carlisle City
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Heaton Stannington
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Tow Law Town
Tow Law Town Association Football Club is an English non-league Association football, football club from Tow Law, County Durham, currently playing in the Northern League (football), Northern League Division One, in the ninth level of the English ...
* Plus:
**
Pickering Town, relegated from the
Northern Premier League
The Northern Premier League is an English Association football, football league that was founded in 1968. Together with the Isthmian League and the Southern Football League, Southern League it forms levels seven and eight of the English footba ...
Division One table
Inter-step play-off
Stadia and locations
Division Two
Division Two featured 17 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with four new clubs:
*
Billingham Town, relegated from Division One
*
Boro Rangers, promoted from the
North Riding League
*
Chester-le-Street United, promoted from the
Wearside League
The Wearside Football League is a non-league football competition based in northern England. It consists of three divisions which sits at steps 7 to 9 of the National League System (levels 11 to 13 of the Football pyramid) and is a feeder to the ...
*
Prudhoe Youth Club, promoted from the
Northern Alliance
The Northern Alliance ( ''Da Šumāl E'tilāf'' or ''Ettehād Šumāl''), officially known as the United National Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan ( ''Jabha-ye Muttahid-e barāye Afğānistān''), was a military alliance of groups that op ...
Division Two table
Play-offs
Stadia and locations
References
External links
Northern Football League
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