Northern Alliance

The Northern Alliance Football League is a football league based in the North East of England. It has four divisions, headed by the Premier Division, which sits at step 7 (or level 11) of the National League System.

The Northern Alliance was founded in 1890 as a single league, with a membership of seven teams. In 1926 it became the Second Division of the North Eastern League, but it split away again in 1935. It disbanded in 1964 due to lack of membership, but reformed just one season later, in 1965–66.

In 1988 the Northern Amateur League and the Northern Combination League combined with the Northern Football Alliance (all under the name Northern Football Alliance) to create a three-division format, which later expanded to four.