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The England national football C team (previously known as the England National Game XI and the England Semi-Pro national team) are the football team that represents England at non-League level. Formed in 1979 as the England Non-League team, it features players who play for clubs outside the Premier League and English Football League .
Pontefract Collieries Football Club is a semi-professional football club based in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England. The team currently plays in the Northern Premier League Division One East. The club is affiliated to the West Riding County Football Association and Castleford & District Football Association.
They played Milton Keynes Dons F.C. away, losing 6–0 in front of 4070 fans. [6] In the NPL, Nantwich finished 10th, but also won the Cheshire Senior Cup beating Stalybridge Celtic in the final. After an impressive pre-season, and an opening day 5–0 away win over Matlock Town , hopes were high for Nantwich, but 2012-13 performances declined ...
Hemel Hempstead Town Football Club is a semi-professional football club based in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England. Affiliated to the Hertfordshire County Football Association , they are currently members of the National League South and play at Vauxhall Road.
The club was established in 1887 as Lowestoft FC by a merger of East Suffolk and the original Kirkley, and were renamed Lowestoft Town in 1890. They joined the Norfolk & Suffolk League as founder members in 1897, and won six of the first seven championships, [2] also playing in the North Suffolk League, where they also won six championships in seven seasons.
Bath City Football Club is a semi-professional football club based in Bath, Somerset, England. The club is affiliated to the Somerset FA and currently competes in the National League South, the sixth tier of English football. Nicknamed the "Romans", the club was founded in 1889 and have played their home matches at Twerton Park since 1932.
There are two divisions at level 6, covering the north (National League North) and south (National League South), with 24 clubs each. Some of these clubs are full-time professional and the others are semi-professional. Below level 6, some of the stronger clubs are semi-professional, but continuing down the tiers, soon all the clubs are amateur.
Professional football (and, indeed, professional sports in general) developed more slowly in Southern England than in Northern England.Professionalism was first sanctioned by The Football Association as early as 1885, but when The Football League was founded in 1888 its member clubs were based entirely in the North and Midlands, as the county football associations in the South were firmly ...