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After the 2023–24 season, four runners-up competed in the play-offs where an additional club was guaranteed promotion from each step 5 division, with the number of relegations from each of the eight level 8 divisions remained at two as each step 4 division increased its divisional size to 22 teams.
The Southern Counties East Football League is an English football league established in 1966, which has teams based in Kent and Southeast London.Its two divisions are allocated at Step 5 and Step 6 of the National League System (which equates to Levels 9–10 of the overall English football league system).
On 17 April 2019, it was clarified that there would be 17 divisions at Step 6, down from 19 in 2018–19 and that the two new divisions at Step 5 would be in the Midlands and the west London/Thames Valley areas. [2] On 24 April, it was announced that the Northern Premier League had been awarded the operation of the eighth division at Step 4. [3]
No professional league in any of the major pro sports leagues in the U.S. or Canada uses a system of promotion and relegation. [1] The country's governing body for the sport, the United States Soccer Federation (also known as the USSF or U.S. Soccer), oversees the league system and is responsible for sanctioning professional leagues.
The league had two Premier divisions (Central and South) at Step 3 of the National League System (NLS) and two Division One divisions (Central and South) at Step 4. These correspond to levels 7 and 8 of the English football league system. The allocations for Step 4 this season were announced by The Football Association (FA) on 17 May 2021. [1]
In association football, rugby union, rugby league and Gaelic games, league systems are usually connected by the process of promotion and relegation, in which teams from a lower division who finish at the top of the standings in their league are promoted (advanced to the next level of the system) while teams who finish lowest in their division are relegated (move down to a lower division).
Relegation match with a Step 5 team 11 Sheffield: Northern Premier League Division One East: 36 33 0.917 Retention at Step 4 12 Witham Town: Isthmian League North Division: 38 33 0.863 Relegation match with a Step 5 team 13 Cinderford Town: Southern League Division One South: 36 31 0.861 14 Kempston Rovers: Southern League Division One Central ...
A club that achieves promotion, followed by immediate relegation, and a subsequent repeat of this cycle is often described as a Yo-yo club. [2] Note: Dissolved and reformed clubs, and clubs relegated due to financial irregularities are not included in this list.