Northern Premier League
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| Country | England |
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| Other club(s) from | Wales |
| Founded | 1968 |
| Number of teams | 68 in total 24 (Premier Division) 22 (Division One North) 22 (Division One South) |
| Level on pyramid | 7 and 8 |
| Promotion to | National League North |
| Relegation to |
Northern Football League Northern Counties East Football League North West Counties Football League Midland Football League |
| Domestic cup(s) |
FA Cup FA Trophy Challenge Cup Peter Swales Shield |
| Current champions |
Darlington 1883 (Premier Division) Warrington Town (Division One North) Stafford Rangers (Division One South) Marine (Challenge Cup) |
| Website | Evo-Stik League |
 2016–17
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The Northern Premier League is one of the regional football leagues in England which sits directly below the National League featuring semi-professional and amateur clubs. Geographically, the league covers all of Northern England, and the northern areas of the Midlands. Originally just one division, a second division was added in 1987: Division One. This new division was split twenty years later (2007) into Division One North and Division One South.
Together with the Southern League and the Isthmian League it forms level 7–8 of the English football league system. It has various regional feeder leagues at level 9 and, due to restructuring, from 2005 onwards its champions/playoff winners have been promoted to the National League North division rather than the National League's top division as was previously the case. It is, however, also possible for these teams to be promoted to the National League South.
Due to title sponsorship deals, the league has been billed under various names, including a sixteen-year spell as the Unibond League, the longest such deal in world football. When this deal ended in 2010, a new deal was announced which will see the competition billed as the Evo-Stik League until at least the 2015–16 season.
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